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| | Features | Bright 15.4-inch LCD stylishly accented with an onyx blue metallic LCD cover1.73 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5300 processor, 160 GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM (2 GB max), dual-layer DVD/CD burnerTri-mode Wi-Fi LAN (802.11a/b/g), 10/100 Ethernet, Intel GMA 950 video card with up to 256 MB shared memoryConnectivity: 4 USB, 1 FireWire, 1 VGA, 1 S-Video, 1 headphone, 1 microphone, 1 ExpressCard 34/54Pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium (with Media Center capabilities)
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| | Description | TOSHIBA A205-S4577 Satellite Notebook. The Satellite A205 makes a statement with must have computing at an affordable price. Packing advanced performance and affordability into an attractive laptop, the Satellite A205 is ready to meet your must have everyday computing and entertaining needs. The Intel Core 2 Duo Processor offers powerful processing capabilities along with 160GB capacity hard drives and 1024MB memory to keep you and your projects going. A DVD SuperMulti drive and 6 button keypad allows for convenient control of your CDs. Four well spaced USB ports and an ExpressCard slot, adds desktop like connection to all your peripherals. Integrated 802.11a/g Wi Fi connects you to almost anywhere you go. This Onyx Blue Metallic notebook with a wide Touchpad to match its 15.4 inch diagonal widescreen presents a sense of style and confidence that stands out in the crowd. Toshiba recommends Windows Vista Home Premium. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 14.3 inches | | Product Width: | 1.32 inches | | Product Height: | 10.5 inches | | Package Length: | 16.1 inches | | Package Width: | 14.0 inches | | Package Height: | 5.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 10.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 8 reviews |
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 8 customer reviews )
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13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Beautiful Notebook! May 21, 2007
By A. Tzou
I love my new notebook! It's a great price for the product you are getting. Just make sure to purchase two (2) 1 GB memory modules in order to make it run more efficiently. The way the notebook comes, it has two (2) 512 MB memory modules and there are only 2 slots. It is suggested that since it runs on Windows Vista Premium, that it would work best with 2 GB RAM.
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 getting worse than previous Satellite products Jul 01, 2007
By W. J. Alonso
Toshiba is, in general, a good machine, and that is the reason why I bought two notebooks again from this brand. Nevertheless, I am disappointed with some poor technical decisions that were made on these new Satellite series.
Do the designers of these new Satellite series realize that maybe people who buy them will be sometimes using the notebooks at conference auditoriums where silence is required?, or at night in airplanes and other places where it would be nice not to wake up everybody around when you start up your computer? Had they considered that, they would realized that if you do not turn the sound level down (at the volume icon, or in the outrageously hidden Windows system) before switching the computer off, you will certainly have the embarrassment of having the starting sound of Windows coming happily from your machine and without you being able to do nothing about it. Such obsolescence was carefully crafted into the new Satellite series, since in my old A10 and A30 notebooks the mechanical volume switch did work beautifully by being directly connected to the speaker amplifiers (something which, by the way, makes the control of sound in general one thousand times easier and less prone to errors - the "new feature" does not work well many times, leading the volume level to `jump' from, say, level "zero" to six - another technical courtesy to embarrass you in quiet public facilities).
Another problem with the machine performance was the choice of forcing users (no choice is given) to purchase the machine with Windows Vista, an operating system that will not run many of your old programs, that will consume a huge share of your ram memory just for the sake of some cosmetic cuteness, and that is technically very complicate to remove for "downgrading" your notebook to Windows XP. Also, many of the drivers of the Toshiba notebook are only available for Windows Vista, making it a nightmare to have some of the hardware operating in other Windows versions.
And lastly, the cooling fan of this Toshiba frequently works at maximum potency (with the corresponding noise) without any apparent reason (i.e., when almost no processing is taking place, as checked in the system management), making it a less silence machine (and probably unnecessarily shortening the life-spam of the fan).
At the end, I did regret having bought them. It is a car that looks good and has a good engine, but has an annoying sound system, a lot of unnecessary gadgets (Vista) that reduce performance and speed and you will find difficult to remove, a noise cabin, and a not-so-funny habit of waking up your neighbors with a loud horn in the middle of the night.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 A Solid System!! Jul 01, 2007
By Anthony Nagle
"Bad Booking"
Before I rant the OS, I want to say this system is solid. It has a Intel Centrio dual-core processor (1.73x2), 1 GB of RAM (667Mhz of speed, 2 512's, more on that later), 8x SuperMulti Drive (burns everything you would think of, but if it is a DVD, wait awhile), a webcam (if video capture if your gig, then disable this first), HD speakers (always a nice touch), and a 15.4" Widescreen display which for me I'll have to get used to seeing that I was brought up with computers that had blocky CRT's. And another cool feature is the Wi-Fi, which when it is turned on, will connect to any internet anywhere. That is cool.
The starting installation is simple. You put it up to charge, and then you do everything it tells you to do. Of course, you should charge the battery up to 100%. Takes about two hours to complete.
The Vista version installed on this computer is the Home Premium one. I know there are differences between the whole family (Basic, Premium, Business, Ultimate), but the one thing they have in common is that they eat RAM like Oreos. It has high-def graphics and the graphics are used in more places than before. You also have the Google window that opens up on boot, and IMO, it is annoying. Vista makes everything a little more different, but hey, innovations are innovations, and even though a lot of XP components are not able to be installed on the systems, I would wait until System Pack 1 for stuff to really improve and be a great system.
In conclusion, this system is solid. Though Vista is a downer for the meantime, the price is great for the equipment offered (and the software, but be aware, DO NOT USE MOVIEFACTORY 5!! It really freezes almost everytime you use it). McAfee 30-day antivirus is standard, but when the subscription expires, get Norton for the antivirus. Also, very important, get 2 GB's of RAM (PC5300 or 5400 laptop memory) as soon as possible, you will thank yourself a lot. All in all, not a bad investment. Just do not attempt to try to switch to XP unless you get support. Have fun!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Worthless battery life Oct 29, 2007
By R. Walker
"R. Walker"
I have just one thing to say about my Toshiba Satellite, and I presume this extends to all of Toshiba's laptops: the battery is worthless. It never lasted more than an hour and a half when I got it new and quickly deteriorated until now when it barely lasts 15 minutes. I know laptop batteries wear out, but I've also used IBM laptops at work for many years and those batteries always last for several hours even when they are old (as many as 4 hours!). So if you care about battery life, don't get Toshiba.
 Save your money! Nov 17, 2008
By C. Shockley
I own this model and wish I had purchased a MacBook instead. My unit was shipped with Vista (which crashes all the time) I contacted Toshiba about a disk to "upgrade" it back down to XP and was shocked to learn that they can't help me as they didn't make the software so I should contact Microsoft (who told me to call Toshiba) with Vista problems. Nice! So unless you like LOTS OF PROBLEMS with NO SUPPORT don't waste your hard earned money on anything running Vista. After so many lock ups and a few total restores, I gave up and purchased an IMac. WOW! I wish I had done this years ago. I'll be happy to purchase another Toshiba when they ship it with the Mac OS.
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