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| | Features | Bright 15.4-inch LCD stylishly accented with an onyx blue metallic LCD cover1.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 processor, 250 GB hard drive, 2 GB RAM (max), dual-layer DVD/CD burner with Labelflash printingIntel 4965 AGN wireless LAN connects to draft 802.11n routers (as well as 802.11a/b/g); Intel GMA 950 video cardConnectivity: 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-S4617 Satellite Notebook. The Satellite A205 is a mobile PC well suited for your daily demands. Sparked with good looks, the 15.4 inch diagonal widescreen Satellite A205 laptop is well suited to your ambitious multitasking efforts. The latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and desktop features, backed by larger hard drives, including a dual hard drive option for high end workloads increases the systems overall functionality while providing optimal storage capacity along with discrete graphics, empowers you to tackle it all. Harman/kardon speakers, 6 button media keypad, DVD SuperMulti drive and a built in Webcam start you off on a multimedia adventure. The Labelflash simplifies the labeling of self burned DVDs. Share files and downloads with the 5 in 1 Bridge Media Adapter. Use 802.11a/g/n Wi Fi connectivity with an ExpressCard slot and expanded USB ports for a desktop like experience. Toshiba recommends Windows Vista Home Premium. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 14.3 inches | | Product Width: | 1.32 inches | | Product Height: | 10.5 inches | | Product Weight: | 6.39 pounds | | 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 11 reviews |
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 11 customer reviews )
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19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 I love it Apr 26, 2007
By Peter Chesterfield
"chestepc"
This laptop is great. I only have a few issues. I wish the hard drive was faster than 4500 rpm and I wish it had the capability of connecting to a docking station or port replicator. I also really like the labelflash functionality. The laptop comes with 1 labelflash DVD that you can use. The problem is you cannot find labelflash media anywhere so it's basically useless.
15 of 15 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.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Could not ask for much more Jun 14, 2007
By Madtecomp
This laptop is an excellent machine. I own a Toshiba laptop from the 105 series, and I am extremely impressed with that one as well. I was cautious at first because I heard about overheating problems on Toshibas, and my friend owned one several years ago which did just that. However, it is my opinion that many of the laptops from 3-5 years ago which were running powerful intel pentium 4 processors or even amd's for that matter were overheating because the processors were just too big and too hot. Laptops today are designed with chips that can be cooled by a smaller fan...anyway thats just what I think.
So back to this laptop. I set out to get a smaller more lightweight laptop than the one I had previously (Toshiba 105 series). My requirements for this new laptop were simple. At least a 200 gb hard drive and at least 2 gb of ram (expandable to 4)and also be under 5 pounds. Well I didn't get the under 5 pounds part, however I did get to keep about $1000 in my pocket. I found a few sony's that met my demands. They had 13 inch screens, 200 gb hard drives, and 2 gbs of ram. But the cheapest one was selling for $2000. So I ended up buying this Toshiba, and it was an excellent decision.
Along with all of the specs which have been noted above, this laptop comes with Harmon/Kardon speakers which give very good sound. It also has a biometric fingerprint reader, which is a nice feature. And it has a built in webcam. I didn't see any of those specifications mentioned, but they may have been, I didn't read through the entire specs list. Overall, I am very pleased with this laptop.
There are several small improvements that I believe would make this laptop flawless.
1. Faster hard drive, the hard drive on this laptop is very large (250 gb) but it can only run at 4200rpms. A 5400rpm would do the trick, and a 7200 would really make this move.
2. Bluetooth. This laptop comes with everything, except bluetooth.
3. The lid is rather glossy, and it leaves fingerprints on it.
4. The battery life could be better, but it is not bad. About 2.5-3hrs.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Hardware issues. Thank goodness for warranty! Sep 05, 2007
By A. E. Fawcett
"reluctant adult"
I've used this laptop for school and work for about six weeks now and like it so far. The only complaints I have are:
The fan vent puts out a LOT of heat. It can make a small area uncomfortably warm.
The DVD drive is quite noisy. Fortunately, I don't generally have to use the drive outside my home.
Edited to Add: After about 9 months, the motherboard died (with no warning from the hardware monitoring feature of Windows Vista!!). Toshiba customer support/warranty repair department was helpful and handled things in an expedient fashion. Free 2-day mail to the repair center and free 2-day return mail to my residence meant I had a new motherboard within 8 days total (including a weekend) at no cost to me. I just hope I don't have any more trouble! If I hadn't been in warranty, that hardware replacement could have cost hundreds of dollars.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Beware Toshiba - warranty will end up costing! Oct 02, 2007
By MissyM
I previously have not had any major problems with my computers before so didn't really look into after sales service. After the experience of the last 2 months, I realize how important this is. Buyer beware! Toshiba offers a dis-service! It has now gone into their repair centre for the second time for the same problem! Their customer services were totally uncaring that I had taken time off work and spent money (about $60) just to get the computer to them... problems they still haven't been able to sort out. BTW, huge problems that Toshiba is finding impossible to solve... a faulty keyboard and a touchpad!
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