The basic needs could not the $ 699 (Update: 2/7/08) Toshiba Satellite Pro A210-EZ2201 acceptable. It 'laptop most favourable to our recently tested sub-$ 1000 the group, but it has very modest performance. Rather slow and with a little battery time, they 's easily outshone by most competitors. However, if coincements penny is a priority, Windows Vista Basic laptop Mainstream can work without too much fuss.
The only model in the group with an AMD processor (1.8 GHz Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core-TK-55), and only one in two only 1 GB of RAM, the Satellite Pro A210-World Ez2201 reached 6 Beta 2 Benchmark points only 54 Draft laptop-$ 1000 the average was 19% faster. Regarding the battery, the Satellite Pro A210-Ez2201 's of 2.2 hours was the shortest of 16 recently reviewed multi-laptops in each price category, pooping by 1.7 hours earlier than average.
Performance aside, this black and silver device works, some of the features of $ 700 for a laptop, including a DVD burner, a FireWire port and a location ExpressCard/54. There are even two surprises. It is a vacuum inside the bay of laptops for adding a second hard drive, if you 're also inclined. (A hard disk of 80 GB default.) �bersch�umend The other is clear, son. This low level belt portable music as Ugly Betty Pipe of Celine Dion.
But the keyboard, while easy to give, saw and felt cheaper, and the 15.4-inch, 1280-800-Solution on the screen the dark side, and vulnerable to glare. The controls brightness seemed to have no effect. Given that, much better than laptops cost $ 200 more, they 's difficult to recommend to the A210-Ez2201 with great enthusiasm. On the other hand, I 've never heard of a better portable retentissants this award. Music lovers, at least, a real treat customers here.
