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

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  • Attractively designed
  • Cons
  • Difficult-to-use mouse buttons

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

  • Reviewed by: mattswet

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Nice looking laptop

    Weaknesses: Shoddy hardware, complete lack of customer support

    Overall Evaluation: 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

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: HDD, SCREEN, SPEAKER

    Weaknesses: RAM

    Overall Evaluation: 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

    Duration of ownership:

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

    Weaknesses: - A bit thick IMHO

    Overall Evaluation: 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

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: HDD, SCREEN, SOUNDS

    Weaknesses: NONE

    Overall Evaluation: 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

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: speaker, screen, hd

    Weaknesses: memory: 1GB would be nuch better

    Overall Evaluation: 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.

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

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.

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