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Thinking of buying Toshiba Laptop Silpheed 04-15-2008
Posted by Silpheed on April 15, 2008, 5:29 pm
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 It's the Toshiba Satellite® L355D-S7809. My local OfficeDepot has it for
$599. Here are the specs:

processor model AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
processor speed 2.0 GHz
brand name Toshiba Satellite
manufacturer Toshiba
model name Satellite L355D-S7809
Wi-Fi capability included (Wi-Fi ready) yes
hard drive capacity 200 GB
memory 2 GB
memory speed PC2-5300
memory type DDR2 SDRAM
maximum memory capacity 4 GB
included integrated drives DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD±R DL
diagonal screen size 17.1 inches
notebook computer weight 7.3 lb
screen type TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD
operating system Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
screen resolutionprocessor model AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
processor speed 2.0 GHz
brand name Toshiba Satellite
manufacturer Toshiba
model name Satellite L355D-S7809
Wi-Fi capability included (Wi-Fi ready) yes
hard drive capacity 200 GB
memory 2 GB
memory speed PC2-5300
memory type DDR2 SDRAM
maximum memory capacity 4 GB
included integrated drives DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD±R DL
diagonal screen size 17.1 inches
notebook computer weight 7.3 lb
screen type TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD
operating system Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
screen resolution 1440 x 900
software included yes
warranty 1-year limited
number of USB 2.0 ports 3
number of USB 1.1 ports 0
modem standard 56K V.92
audio hardware Windows-compatible audio
frontside bus speed 800 MHz
integrated speaker yes
integrated memory card reader yes
mouse pointer type touchpad
number of VGA video ports 1
video hardware ATI Radeon X1250
video memory 128MB to 831MB shared
thickness 1.7 inches
width 15.7 inches
depth 11.5 inches
Ethernet port yes
number of parallel ports 0
number of PS/2 ports 0
number of S-video out ports 0
number of serial ports 0
infrared port yes
computer battery type lithium-ion
number of FireWire ports 0
1440 x 900
software included yes
warranty 1-year limited
number of USB 2.0 ports 3
number of USB 1.1 ports 0
modem standard 56K V.92
audio hardware Windows-compatible audio
frontside bus speed 800 MHz
integrated speaker yes
integrated memory card reader yes
mouse pointer type touchpad
number of VGA video ports 1
video hardware ATI Radeon X1250
video memory 128MB to 831MB shared
thickness 1.7 inches
width 15.7 inches
depth 11.5 inches
Ethernet port yes
number of parallel ports 0
number of PS/2 ports 0
number of S-video out ports 0
number of serial ports 0
infrared port yes
computer battery type lithium-ion
number of FireWire ports 0


Sorry for the spam. How come it's so cheap? I'll be using it primarily to
play older games like Quake 3 , Diablo 2 and HalfLife 2. What do you guys
think?




Posted by G.G.Willikers on April 15, 2008, 5:53 pm
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 Silpheed wrote:
> It's the Toshiba Satellite® L355D-S7809. My local OfficeDepot has it for
> $599. Here are the specs:
>
> processor model AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
> processor speed 2.0 GHz
> brand name Toshiba Satellite
> manufacturer Toshiba
> model name Satellite L355D-S7809
> Wi-Fi capability included (Wi-Fi ready) yes
> hard drive capacity 200 GB
> memory 2 GB
> memory speed PC2-5300
> memory type DDR2 SDRAM
> maximum memory capacity 4 GB
> included integrated drives DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD±R DL
> diagonal screen size 17.1 inches
> notebook computer weight 7.3 lb
> screen type TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD
> operating system Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
> screen resolutionprocessor model AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
> processor speed 2.0 GHz
> brand name Toshiba Satellite
> manufacturer Toshiba
> model name Satellite L355D-S7809
> Wi-Fi capability included (Wi-Fi ready) yes
> hard drive capacity 200 GB
> memory 2 GB
> memory speed PC2-5300
> memory type DDR2 SDRAM
> maximum memory capacity 4 GB
> included integrated drives DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD±R DL
> diagonal screen size 17.1 inches
> notebook computer weight 7.3 lb
> screen type TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD
> operating system Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
> screen resolution 1440 x 900
> software included yes
> warranty 1-year limited
> number of USB 2.0 ports 3
> number of USB 1.1 ports 0
> modem standard 56K V.92
> audio hardware Windows-compatible audio
> frontside bus speed 800 MHz
> integrated speaker yes
> integrated memory card reader yes
> mouse pointer type touchpad
> number of VGA video ports 1
> video hardware ATI Radeon X1250
> video memory 128MB to 831MB shared
> thickness 1.7 inches
> width 15.7 inches
> depth 11.5 inches
> Ethernet port yes
> number of parallel ports 0
> number of PS/2 ports 0
> number of S-video out ports 0
> number of serial ports 0
> infrared port yes
> computer battery type lithium-ion
> number of FireWire ports 0
> 1440 x 900
> software included yes
> warranty 1-year limited
> number of USB 2.0 ports 3
> number of USB 1.1 ports 0
> modem standard 56K V.92
> audio hardware Windows-compatible audio
> frontside bus speed 800 MHz
> integrated speaker yes
> integrated memory card reader yes
> mouse pointer type touchpad
> number of VGA video ports 1
> video hardware ATI Radeon X1250
> video memory 128MB to 831MB shared
> thickness 1.7 inches
> width 15.7 inches
> depth 11.5 inches
> Ethernet port yes
> number of parallel ports 0
> number of PS/2 ports 0
> number of S-video out ports 0
> number of serial ports 0
> infrared port yes
> computer battery type lithium-ion
> number of FireWire ports 0
>
>
> Sorry for the spam. How come it's so cheap? I'll be using it primarily to
> play older games like Quake 3 , Diablo 2 and HalfLife 2. What do you guys
> think?
>
>
>
They are OK machines, but come with a boatload of bullshit apps
pre-installed. The Toshiba helper programs can be a gift or a PIA,
depends how you look at it. (Turn off IPv6 if you plan on using a router
more than a year old).

Posted by Silpheed on April 15, 2008, 7:26 pm
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> Silpheed wrote:
>> It's the Toshiba Satellite® L355D-S7809. My local OfficeDepot has it for
>> $599. Here are the specs:
>>
>> processor model AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
>> processor speed 2.0 GHz
>> brand name Toshiba Satellite
>> manufacturer Toshiba
>> model name Satellite L355D-S7809
>> Wi-Fi capability included (Wi-Fi ready) yes
>> hard drive capacity 200 GB
>> memory 2 GB
>> memory speed PC2-5300
>> memory type DDR2 SDRAM
>> maximum memory capacity 4 GB
>> included integrated drives DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD±R DL
>> diagonal screen size 17.1 inches
>> notebook computer weight 7.3 lb
>> screen type TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD
>> operating system Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
>> screen resolutionprocessor model AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
>> processor speed 2.0 GHz
>> brand name Toshiba Satellite
>> manufacturer Toshiba
>> model name Satellite L355D-S7809
>> Wi-Fi capability included (Wi-Fi ready) yes
>> hard drive capacity 200 GB
>> memory 2 GB
>> memory speed PC2-5300
>> memory type DDR2 SDRAM
>> maximum memory capacity 4 GB
>> included integrated drives DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD±R DL
>> diagonal screen size 17.1 inches
>> notebook computer weight 7.3 lb
>> screen type TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD
>> operating system Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack
>> 1
>> screen resolution 1440 x 900
>> software included yes
>> warranty 1-year limited
>> number of USB 2.0 ports 3
>> number of USB 1.1 ports 0
>> modem standard 56K V.92
>> audio hardware Windows-compatible audio
>> frontside bus speed 800 MHz
>> integrated speaker yes
>> integrated memory card reader yes
>> mouse pointer type touchpad
>> number of VGA video ports 1
>> video hardware ATI Radeon X1250
>> video memory 128MB to 831MB shared
>> thickness 1.7 inches
>> width 15.7 inches
>> depth 11.5 inches
>> Ethernet port yes
>> number of parallel ports 0
>> number of PS/2 ports 0
>> number of S-video out ports 0
>> number of serial ports 0
>> infrared port yes
>> computer battery type lithium-ion
>> number of FireWire ports 0
>> 1440 x 900
>> software included yes
>> warranty 1-year limited
>> number of USB 2.0 ports 3
>> number of USB 1.1 ports 0
>> modem standard 56K V.92
>> audio hardware Windows-compatible audio
>> frontside bus speed 800 MHz
>> integrated speaker yes
>> integrated memory card reader yes
>> mouse pointer type touchpad
>> number of VGA video ports 1
>> video hardware ATI Radeon X1250
>> video memory 128MB to 831MB shared
>> thickness 1.7 inches
>> width 15.7 inches
>> depth 11.5 inches
>> Ethernet port yes
>> number of parallel ports 0
>> number of PS/2 ports 0
>> number of S-video out ports 0
>> number of serial ports 0
>> infrared port yes
>> computer battery type lithium-ion
>> number of FireWire ports 0
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the spam. How come it's so cheap? I'll be using it primarily to
>> play older games like Quake 3 , Diablo 2 and HalfLife 2. What do you guys
>> think?
>>
>>
>>
> They are OK machines, but come with a boatload of bullshit apps
> pre-installed. The Toshiba helper programs can be a gift or a PIA, depends
> how you look at it. (Turn off IPv6 if you plan on using a router more than
> a year old).

What do you think of the screen: TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD. I notice
that most other laptops has WXGA or something like that. Is it the same? I
guess I'm looking for the catch here.



Posted by Barry Watzman on April 15, 2008, 10:41 pm
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All current production laptop screens are TFT active matrix and have
been so for more than 5 years. NO EXCEPTIONS

TruBrite means it's a "glossy finish". Lots of people don't like that,
but very few laptops are made these days with a matte finish
non-reflective LCD panel.

WXGA refers to the resolution (horizontal pixels x vertical pixels)

None of the above 3 paragraphs have anything to do with each other.

There is no catch; the laptop is reasonably priced for what it is. You
can buy new laptops as low as $399-$449, you seem to think that this one
is selling for like half of what it should be, it's not. It's a
reasonable buy, but it's not shockingly low priced.

Silpheed wrote:

>
> What do you think of the screen: TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD. I notice
> that most other laptops has WXGA or something like that. Is it the same? I
> guess I'm looking for the catch here.
>
>

Posted by Richard Carpenter on April 15, 2008, 10:30 pm
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> It's the Toshiba Satellite® L355D-S7809. My local OfficeDepot has it for
> $599. Here are the specs:
>
> processor model AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
> processor speed 2.0 GHz
> brand name Toshiba Satellite
> manufacturer Toshiba
> model name Satellite L355D-S7809
> Wi-Fi capability included (Wi-Fi ready) yes
> hard drive capacity 200 GB
> memory 2 GB
> memory speed PC2-5300
> memory type DDR2 SDRAM
> maximum memory capacity 4 GB
> included integrated drives DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD±R DL
> diagonal screen size 17.1 inches
> notebook computer weight 7.3 lb
> screen type TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD
> operating system Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
> screen resolutionprocessor model AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
> processor speed 2.0 GHz
> brand name Toshiba Satellite
> manufacturer Toshiba
> model name Satellite L355D-S7809
> Wi-Fi capability included (Wi-Fi ready) yes
> hard drive capacity 200 GB
> memory 2 GB
> memory speed PC2-5300
> memory type DDR2 SDRAM
> maximum memory capacity 4 GB
> included integrated drives DVD±RW/DVD-RAM/DVD±R DL
> diagonal screen size 17.1 inches
> notebook computer weight 7.3 lb
> screen type TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD
> operating system Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
> screen resolution 1440 x 900
> software included yes
> warranty 1-year limited
> number of USB 2.0 ports 3
> number of USB 1.1 ports 0
> modem standard 56K V.92
> audio hardware Windows-compatible audio
> frontside bus speed 800 MHz
> integrated speaker yes
> integrated memory card reader yes
> mouse pointer type touchpad
> number of VGA video ports 1
> video hardware ATI Radeon X1250
> video memory 128MB to 831MB shared
> thickness 1.7 inches
> width 15.7 inches
> depth 11.5 inches
> Ethernet port yes
> number of parallel ports 0
> number of PS/2 ports 0
> number of S-video out ports 0
> number of serial ports 0
> infrared port yes
> computer battery type lithium-ion
> number of FireWire ports 0
> 1440 x 900
> software included yes
> warranty 1-year limited
> number of USB 2.0 ports 3
> number of USB 1.1 ports 0
> modem standard 56K V.92
> audio hardware Windows-compatible audio
> frontside bus speed 800 MHz
> integrated speaker yes
> integrated memory card reader yes
> mouse pointer type touchpad
> number of VGA video ports 1
> video hardware ATI Radeon X1250
> video memory 128MB to 831MB shared
> thickness 1.7 inches
> width 15.7 inches
> depth 11.5 inches
> Ethernet port yes
> number of parallel ports 0
> number of PS/2 ports 0
> number of S-video out ports 0
> number of serial ports 0
> infrared port yes
> computer battery type lithium-ion
> number of FireWire ports 0
>
>
> Sorry for the spam. How come it's so cheap? I'll be using it primarily to
> play older games like Quake 3 , Diablo 2 and HalfLife 2. What do you guys
> think?
>

You generally get what you pay for with laptops (unless you buy Sony,
anyway). The one experience I've had with Toshiba was kind of bad. I got the
idea that once I had the laptop, they didn't want much else to do with me,
and that was a typical sentiment in their customer community at the time.

Their online support presence was pretty bad, too, being poorly implemented
at first (I believe it was some cheesy knowledgebase search with a name
like, "Ask Iris" or something that was cumbersome to use and not very
effective) and then outsourced to not much better, IIRC. The laptop itself
was ok. Nothing to brag about, but it didn't hold up very well over the next
several years. Heat issues when it was new (common of that particular
Satellite model) were only addressable through the purchase of a third-party
utility to manage the fan, when a BIOS update should have been able to
easily correct the problem and rampant failures of the GeForce2 Go discreet
graphics cards due to manufacturing defect (faulty soldering during the
manufacturing process) are a couple of the major issues I had. Naturally,
the graphics issue manifested itself about four months after my warranty ran
out, so I was out of luck.

All things considered, Toshiba wouldn't be anywhere near the top of the list
of laptops I would purchase in the future.

The unit you listed may not be a bad deal, but I'm not a big fan of the
Turion processor. It runs hotter (significantly, as I understand it) and is
less capable than it's Core 2 Duo counterpart. I would think you could find
a good deal on a Dell (watch their website and search online for Dell
coupons) or perhaps an HP for similar or little more than that price.

I currently own a Dell Inspiron 6000 - one of the lesser expensive models
when I bought it - and it's been a very solid machine for about three years
now.

--
Richard Carpenter


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