Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5904 15.4-Inch Laptop (2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core Mobile Processor, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium)

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Product Description

Offering solid performance, a broad array of features and truly impressive pricing, the Satellite L305/L305D Laptop Series is designed to help budget-minded consumers enjoy the Toshiba quality and innovation they deserve. A stunning 15.4-inch display lends a new visual dimension to movies, gaming, photos and more, plus school and business work. Equipped with powerful dual-core processors and lots of memory, these machines can supercharge multitasking, balancing the family budget or studying for finals. Integrated Wi-Fi helps you stay connected or surf the Web at most any wireless hotspot. And an attractive Onyx Blue finish is sure to draw attention. The Media Card Reader on this laptop makes it easy to transfer files from a digital camera, video camcorder, MP3 player or smart phone using SD cards, Memory Sticks and more. The Toshiba L305D-S5904 ships with Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit version), 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core Mobile Technology, 1MB L2 Cache, AMD M690G chipset, ATI Radeon X1250 Graphics with 128MB-831MB Dynamically Allocated Shared Graphics Memory, 250GB (5400 RPM) Hard Drive (SATA), DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) drive with LabelFlash supporting 11 formats, 15.4 inch (Diagonal) Widescreen TruBrite TFT LCD Display at 1280 x 800 Resolution, webcam and microphone built into LCD bezel, 802.11 b/g wireless LAN. Dimensions: 4.75 inches x 14.3 inches x 1.33 inches without feet, weight: Starting at 5.49 lbs.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1065 in Personal Computers
• Brand: Toshiba
• Model: L305D-S5904
• Dimensions: 1.33" h x 4.75" w x 14.30" l, 5.49 pounds
• CPU: AMD Turion 64 2 GHz
• Memory: 3000MB DDR2 SDRAM
• Hard Disk: 250GB
• Processors: 2
• Display size: 15.4

Features

• 15.4-Inch (Diagonal) Widescreen TruBrite TFT LCD Display at 1280 x 800 Resolution
• 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core Mobile Technology with 1MB L2 Cache
• 3072MB DDR2 SDRAM System Memory, 250GB (5400 RPM) Hard Drive (SATA), ATI Radeon X1250 Graphics with 128MB-831MB Dynamically Allocated Shared Graphics Memory
• DVD SuperMulti (+/-R Double Layer) with Labelflash, Atheros 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN
• Windows Vista Home Premium, dims in inches: 4.75 (W) x 14.3 (L) x 1.33 (H) approx., 5.49 lbs.

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Customer Reviews

Great Inexpensive Computer
I purchased this as a gift for my mother. I am pleasantly surprised with this laptop, but I expected to be. Toshiba is one of three PC laptop brands that I would buy. This is based on past experience.

The first thing I noticed was how light this laptop is. Compared to other current model laptops, it may or may not be considered light by some. Compared to the laptop it replaced, it is a featherweight.

For the most part, it is very sturdy and feels solid in your hands. I would like a little more stiffness in the keyboard response though. I am not a soft typist and I tend to pound on the keyboard. The trackpad is flush with the surface of the handrests, which takes some getting used to. It is hard to find without looking first. After a few uses, I plugged in my USB mouse, which is more compfortable anyway.

My biggest complaint is the number of trial apps that this laptop came with. I understand that the reason for the inexpensive price is because of all the additional software that comes pre-installed. I can live with this, as I uninstalled most of it, opting for competing products (such as the virus scanning software, firewall, etc). There were 23 icons on my desktop when I turned this laptop on the first time!

Minor gripes aside, this laptop is fast, includes plenty of space, and looks sleek and refined. It gets a Vista rating of 3.0 according to Microsoft. I am primarily a Mac user. With that in mind, I can say that Vista is not so bad. It is not worth the effort to bring this laptop home just to remove Vista and install XP. Just be sure to turn off the disorienting Aero mouse pointer theme (leave the rest of Aero turned on) and update all software (including third party products such as Adobe Reader). Vista can be quite pleasing to the eyes after a couple of uses.

I would buy this laptop again without question.

Great Laptop...
After doing quite a bit of research I finally decided on this laptop, it has what I need for school and work. It has plenty of power and after wiping Home Premium and putting Vista Ultimate that my school provides for virtually free it was even faster. If you aren't doing any demanding gaming or hard graphical editing then you cant go wrong.

Honestly this laptop is perfect, the price and performance ratio is great. The only reason I gave this Laptop only 4 and not 5 stars is because it was packaged horridly, basically the Laptop box was put in a much larger box with no padding and was allowed to flop all over the place.

I booted up the laptop after letting it warm up (quite cold here) and it had 1 stuck pixel (red) which is quite annoying to have, I tried to fix it with varying methods (software and pixel massage, etc etc) Its not a huge deal and its to frustrating to return a laptop for one pixel when you need the data on it so much, maybe it will go away eventually and maybe I will fix it but who knows.

I normally buy anything with an LCD screen in the store because of this exact reason, buyer beware of horrible shipping, not sure if this is Amazons fault but in any case it makes no difference to me.

Maybe only one other complaint would be that the design is highly susceptible to smudges from fingerprints or otherwise.

Good choice for 1st lap top
This was my first lap top I have purchased. I wanted a wireless lap top that was easy to use at table or in my lap as needed. It has been great so far, I have had it only a month. I use it mainly for quick research and can shop while sitting with my family in the den instead of being in the office on the desk top computer.