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More…Those with only basic needs might find the $699 (as of 2/7/08) Toshiba Satellite Pro A210-EZ2201 acceptable. It's the lowest-priced laptop in our recently tested sub-$1000 group, but it has very modest performance. Rather slow and with short battery life, it's easily outshone by most competitors. However, if pinching pennies is paramount, this Windows Vista Basic laptop can get mainstream work done without too much fuss.
Toshiba Toshiba Satellite Pro A210-EZ2201
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Latest Price: $619.00
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Storage
| Total HD Size | 80 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 | 802.11g |
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic |
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Pros
Excellent speakers
Supports two side-by-side hard drives
Cons
Sub par speed and battery life
Cheap-feeling keyboard and dim screen
Bottom Line
Bargain priced laptop has sweet built-in speakers, but it's too slow for demanding users.
Toshiba Satellite Pro A210-EZ2201 Value Laptop PC
Toshiba Satellite Pro A210-EZ2201 Review, by Carla Thornton February 27, 2008
The only model in the group using an AMD processor (a 1.8-GHz Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core TK-55), and only one of two to include just 1GB of RAM, the Satellite Pro A210-Ez2201 achieved a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of just 54. The sub-$1000 laptop average was 19 percent faster. As for battery life, the Satellite Pro A210-Ez2201's 2.2-hour performance was the shortest of the 16 recently tested all-purpose notebooks in any price range, pooping out 1.7 hours sooner than the average.
Performance aside, this black-and-silver unit does have some nice features for a $700 notebook, including a DVD writer, a FireWire port, and an ExpressCard/54 slot. There are even two surprises. One is an empty bay inside the notebook for adding a second hard drive, if you're so inclined. (One 80GB hard drive comes standard.) The other is ebullient, crystal-clear sound. This plain little laptop belts out music like Ugly Betty channeling Celine Dion.
But the keyboard, while easy to type on, looked and felt cheaply made, and the 15.4-inch, 1280-by-800-resolution screen was on the dark side and prone to glare. The brightness controls seemed to have no effect whatsoever.
Considering that much better notebooks cost a mere $200 more, it's hard to recommend the A210-Ez2201 with much enthusiasm. On the other hand, I've never heard a better-sounding notebook at this price. Music lovers, at least, could score a real deal here.
--Carla Thornton
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PCWorld Lab Results
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67Performance
| Adobe Photoshop CS2 | 1186 |
| Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX | 638 |
| Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering | 1050 |
| Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm) | 2:14:27 AM |
| Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 12.33 |
| Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 24.14 |
| Firefox 2 | 516 |
| Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1 | 481 |
| Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0 | 374 |
| Multitasking | 632 |
| Nero 7 Ultra Edition | 1278 |
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5 | 319 |
| Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0 | 617 |
| WorldBench 6 Score | 54 |
| WorldBench 6 Word Score | Poor |
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