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More…The Toshiba Satellite A205-S4639 lacks the wow factor, and It doesn't have a mobile-broadband card or even Bluetooth. But it can handle most applications, looks good, and has two hard drives--one with a capacity of 160GB and the other 120GB. If you generate big files, this $1500 Windows Vista Ultimate portable could make you quite happy.
Toshiba Satellite A205-S4639
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Storage
| Total HD Size | 280 GB |
| Optical Drive Type | DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/-RAM |
| Optical Drive Speed | 4 |
| Removable Optical Drive | No |
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| Number of Media Slots | 3 |
Networking
| Bluetooth | No |
| Included network card | Ethernet (10/100 Mbps) |
| Modem Type | V.92 |
| Wireless LAN Type | 802.11n |
Multimedia
| Video chipset | nVidia GeForce Go 7300 |
| Installed video memory | 128 MB |
| Video integration | Discrete |
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Pros
Lots of storage
Interesting case design
Cons
Poor battery life
Bottom Line
Though hampered by poor battery life, the A205-S4639 offers pretty good performance and great sound.
Toshiba Satellite A205-S4639
Satellite A205-S4639 Review, by Carla Thornton July 25, 2007
The A205 turned in pretty good speed numbers: Equipped with a 1.73-GHz Core 2 Duo T5300 processor and 2GB of RAM, it earned a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 67, putting it in the top 25 percent of currently tested laptops. But its 128MB nVidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics card isn't powerful enough for reliable 3D gaming. It managed a smooth and perfectly playable 41 frames per second in Far Cry with antialiasing turned off, but it reached an all-time low of 9 fps in Doom 3. Its battery life was way below par, too, at 2 hours, 28 minutes. Still, this laptop offers a nice 15.4-inch screen, a piano-black lid that adds style, and terrific-sounding Harman/Kardon Stereo speakers. The vast amount of storage (almost 300GB) gives you room to grow or a convenient way to back up files.
Carla Thornton
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67Performance
| Adobe Photoshop CS2 | 703 |
| Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX | 532 |
| Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering | 941 |
| Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm) | 2:28:33 AM |
| Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 26.8 |
| Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 41.46 |
| Firefox 2 | 398 |
| Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1 | 418 |
| Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0 | 322 |
| Multitasking | 495 |
| Nero 7 Ultra Edition | 929 |
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5 | 279 |
| Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0 | 418 |
| WorldBench 6 Score | 67 |
| WorldBench 6 Word Score | Very Good |
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Reviewed by: anandakumar
Strengths: You cannot get all these features in any other Intel Core2Duo notebook for this price.280 GB is a lot of storage. 2GB RAM comes in real handy when it comes to speed. nVidia GEForce Go 7300 is fast.
Weaknesses: The battery life is poor. Comes only for little above 2 hrs. Would have been happier with XP or Vista Home premium.Vista Ultimate is kind of slow I think. No Blue tooth or Infrared
Overall: Overall this is a laptop with desktop like features for the price. So far I am happy with the system. Used the 1.3 MP webcam. Its good. Finger print reader is there for added security. Blue tooth feature and the Infra red not available is a downside.
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