Pros & Cons
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- Lighweight.
- Bright display.
- 100GB hard drive.
- Good speakers.
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- Needs more memory.
Toshiba Satellite M105-S3011 Specs
| Battery Type: | 43 Whr (Watt hours) |
| Graphics Card: | Intel GMA 950 |
| Graphics Memory: | 128 |
| MULTIMEDIA TESTS (minutes:seconds) - Windows Media Encoder Test: | 9:06 |
| Networking Options: | 802.11a/g |
| Operating System: | MS Windows XP Home |
| Primary Optical Drive: | DVD+R DL |
| Processor Family: | Intel Core Duo |
| Processor Name: | Intel Core Duo T2300 |
| Processor Speed: | 1.67 GHz |
| RAM: | 512 MB |
| Rotation Speed: | 5400 rpm |
| Screen Size: | 14.1 inches |
| Screen Type: | Widescreen |
| Storage Capacity (as Tested): | 100 GB |
| Type: | General Purpose |
| Type: | Media |
| Type: | Value |
| Weight: | 5.2 lb |
Tipping the scales at 5.2 pounds, the M105-S3011 is one of the lightest budget Core Duo notebooks on the market. It weighs 1.5 pounds less than the current Editors' Choice, the
The notebook's speakers support SRS TruSurround sound technology, which makes music and movies sound especially good for a laptop. The M105-S3011 has several media buttons for DVD playback, including buttons for play/pause, stop, rewind, and fast forward. There are also two more buttons to access a preboot application, which plays your movies and music without needing to load Microsoft Windows.
The M105-S3011 even has a FireWire port, so you can transfer digital video and images to and from your camcorder. At 100GB, the hard drive is nice and roomy, even adequate for storing any big video files you may create. In addition, you get four USB ports (yeah!), an S-Video port, and a 4-in-1 card reader (xD, SD, MS, MS Pro). There's a dual-layer DVD drive to archive important files onto a DVD (you don't want to lose those graduation pics in a hard-drive crash, do you?). If you use dual-layer media, you can fit up to 8.5GB of material on one disc.
The M105-S3011 carries the same 1.67-GHz Intel Core Duo T2300 processor as the Dell E1505 and the
Though the Satellite doesn't have the longest battery life of the value laptops (Acer wins that award), it ran for 3 hours 38 minutes, which isn't too shabby either. On my multimedia tests, its Adobe Photoshop scores were about 40 seconds slower because of its smaller memory, but its Microsoft Windows Media encoder tests were on a par with the other two comparable systems.
All in all, I would have liked to have seen the Toshiba Satellite M105-S3011 ship with more RAM. Even with this deficiency, however, it's a great inexpensive notebook, with a lot of horsepower and not a lot of carrying weight. You can feel comfortable parting with your hard-earned cash for it.
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