Toshiba Satellite M55-S325 Notebook (1.73GHz Pentium M Centrino 740, 512MB DDR, 100GB, DVD?RW DL, Windows XP, 14" TFT)

Toshiba Satellite M55-S325

Satellite M55-S325 Notebook (1.73GHz Pentium M Centrino 740, 512MB DDR, 100GB, DVD?RW DL, Windows XP, 14" TFT) Review, by Carla Thornton October 29, 2005

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• Reviewed by: mattswet

  Strengths: Nice looking laptop

  Weaknesses: Shoddy hardware, complete lack of customer support

  Overall: I own an earlier version of the Satellite series Toshiba laptop (A35). For all I know, Toshiba may have improved this line with the M55 series. But for those thinking of buying the M55, be careful. I have had nothing but problems with my Satillite A35 in the two years I have owned it. In that time, I have replaced the monitor, the mouse pad, the dvd/cd drive, the hard drive, the power cord, and the power supply and motherboard (twice).Now if that sounds like the type of laptop you want to own, by all means, buy a Toshiba Satellite. But if you get a lemon like I did, don't count on any help from Toshiba. And when I say "any" I mean none, zero, zip. I was so frustrated trying to get anyone at Toshiba (six people in four different countries, none of whom cared at all that I bought one of their products and it was a complete piece of junk) that I swore I would never buy their products again. And I won'tBeware if you want to buy this or any other Toshiba product.

• Reviewed by: eachtw123

  Strengths: HDD, SCREEN, SPEAKER

  Weaknesses: RAM

  Overall: The speaker is very good. Much better than my old Sony. This laptop is good. The only thing I don't like is that it only has 512MB ram. 100GB, DVD writer are the strengths of this machine. You will like it.

• Reviewed by: sonchai

  Strengths: - Vivid screen- Harman-Kardon speakers- DVD burner with dual-layer support

  Weaknesses: - A bit thick IMHO

  Overall: What I liked about this laptop were the speedy processor and the reputable name brand in the laptop market. According to a known online PC review, this machine earned an editor's choice for its class. The benchmard scores were impressive, even higher than some other name brand with higher clock frequency (i.e., 1.86 Ghz HP DV4000's - w/o dedicatd graphics card). If you want a performance notebook PC (not for intensive graphic application though), yet portable enough for lugging around, I'd suggest considering this lappy. You may see it or similar models for yourself at any electronic store nearby before making a purchase.

• Reviewed by: each

  Strengths: HDD, SCREEN, SOUNDS

  Weaknesses: NONE

  Overall: I have the notebook for about a month. I enjoy it very much. You got 100G, 512MB and very good quality of sound.If you can upgrade to 1G ram, it will be perfect.

• Reviewed by: ichichan

  Strengths: speaker, screen, hd

  Weaknesses: memory: 1GB would be nuch better

  Overall: Jsut got this notebook for about a week. If you buy it from Best Buy now, you can get 200 mail-in-rebate. The price after all saving and rebates would be 1049.99. This is a great price for this notebook.