Toshiba Satellite P755-S5274 15.6-Inch LED Laptop (Platinum)
- Intel Core i5-2410M Processor 2.3 GHz (2.9 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology), 3MB L3 Cache
- Configured with 6GB DDR3 1333MHz (max 8GB)
- 640GB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive
- 15.6″ diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT display at 1366 x 768 native resolution (HD) with 16:9 Aspect Ratio and LED Backlite
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with a 6 cell/48Wh Lithium Ion battery pack; Battery Life (measured by MobileMark 2007): 6 hours, 28 minutes
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Very happy with this machine.,
Bear with me here folks, I’m still trying to pull together my thoughts on my brand new laptop here, consider my review a “first draft”.
Received this laptop early this morning. My first impression is pretty good, but I’ve only been with it for a few hours thus far. I’ve surfed around online some, streamed some HD video, played a couple games, and removed a ton of bloatware.
Was a little worried at first, because the first boot-up took quite awhile, but once I removed some bloatware, shut down, and booted up again, it’s ready to go within 20-30 seconds. After running it for 2 hours straight, mostly surfing around online, it’s not hot enough to even call it warm, so it should be good about keeping cool. The fan seems to come on pretty often, but it’s not very loud, it’s mostly just the sound of air moving in and out. Wireless internet seems to work perfectly, and I easily connected to my network.
I actually quite like the touchpad on it, which is strange for me to say, because I’m picky about touchpads. I think it works well, and it’s slightly textured, but not overly so. The keyboard seems nicely built for a laptop too.
I don’t own much in the name of games, but I’ve played some Sim City 4 and The Sims 2 on high settings without any hiccups. HD video streamed smoothly as well.
Only issues I’ve had thus far?
-AOL Instant Messenger. For whatever reason, it won’t work with the audio on this laptop. If the program tries to make a sound, it will freeze up. Disabling sounds on the program fixed it.
-Battery meter doesn’t seem right. I looked at the battery meter often, last I saw… it read 1 hour and 13 minutes left. Not more than 10 minutes later, it died. There was no warning, and I almost had a stroke thinking that the laptop itself died.
-Webcam circa 1999? Seriously, it’s pretty bad. I don’t care though.
Overall, I’m quite happy with my purchase. I’ll be updating this review once I spend more time with it and finish getting my thoughts together.
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|Theoretically Great,
I purchased this laptop 6/30. I received and un-boxed it 7/5. It is well-equipped for the price.
Positives
-The 2nd Gen Core-i5 has excellent benchmarks, comparable and even better than some 1st Gen Core-i7. (See Passmark Benchmark ratings)
-The video card puts out 1080p video without issue. It is not really capable of doing any gaming but that is to be expected at this price from the Intel HD 3000.
-For the price point the theoretical specs are fabulous, hence my purchase and excitement upon arrival.
-It comes with a full size keyboard built in which I enjoy. The sizing and spacing is all acceptable although the backspace is a touch smaller than I would like.
As far as negatives are concerned,
-The webcam is horrendous, I mean, it works, but the resolution and video quality is pretty shameful. I knew this going into the purchase and was willing to accept it, but if you are hoping for a decent integrated webcam this is not a computer for you. Of course you can always get a very high quality external webcam which will best any internal.
-Toshiba Bloatware, I haven’t fully investigated them, but a lot of them are redundant to services that windows provides, or just excessive little power hungry toys. Thus far I do actually like the extra power settings, but that is the only one among many.
-Other Bloatware (Extra links to install trial programs…etc)
Now, the reason for 1-star.
The laptop I received on 7/5 was defective. The audio card integrated on the motherboard was deemed defective by Toshiba. Of course Toshiba customer support made me re-install the driver, and “revert to factory settings”. I found this excessively annoying as I has just opened the box and reverting to factory settings wouldn’t do anything. Regardless the problem remained and they agreed it was defective and told me I could send it to a repair facility (a brand new laptop? and wait a few weeks, i think not). Or Amazon could send me a new one. I have had better dealings with Amazon than Toshiba so I opted for a replacement. Props to Amazon for the prompt replacement (it arrived within 24 hours). Now, believe it or not, the 2nd laptop is also defective. I then had to call Toshiba again to inform them of this. They didn’t seem to find it odd that two of the exact same computers are both defective. Anyway Amazon is refunding me the money and I intend to get something else. Preferably not Toshiba despite my previously high impressions of them.
I would be interested to know if anyone else is having these issues. For anyone who may be skeptical as to the fact that two computers are both defective let me assure you sound was tested with several samples of audio from the HD, and the internet. It was also tested on both computers using the laptop speakers, Sennheiser Headphones, and a high quality system with Polk Audio speakers.
Bottom Line:
The specs are great, but I cannot recommend a computer that has come defective 2/2 times. Once is acceptable, it happens, but twice is not acceptable and both Amazon and Toshiba should be ashamed to be selling faulty merchandise repeatedly.
[UPDATE]
After receiving a third defective laptop I have ordered a Lenovo from Best Buy. I cannot fathom that nobody else is having this issue. This has been tested on numerous receivers, numerous cords, numerous speakers. I have had friends with me to verify that I am in fact not going insane, and Toshiba has verified they are all defective. The error occurs upon setup without changing factory settings at all.
Stay away.
In other news the touchpad is definitely a little far to the left and while typing I often touch it with my left palm. Minor issue though.
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|Decent,
I replaced an 8 year old Satellite with this computer. This new computer is very quick, keyboard keys have a nice touch. Fairly quite, lightweight and solid feeling. Windows 7 seems to be pretty good.
I find that the dolby advanced audio is not good and distorts music, try turning it off to make your music sound good. Also when you plug your speaker line into the headphone jack, select the headphone option, otherwise the line-in option also takes away from the music.
I was afraid that off center keyboard would be awkward and it is. Maybe I will get used to it. There is very little room for the left palm to rest on the computer and frequently inadvertently touches the mouse pad causing the mouse to do things I don’t want it to do.
I chose toshiba again because my previous satellite served me near flawlessly (replaced hard drive once)for 8 years.
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