Toshiba Satellite A65-S1762 Intel Pentium 4 (HT) 3.2GHz Refurbished Laptop
Good reports abound about this great deal on a refurbished laptop computer. It certainly would not find itself out of place amongst discount laptop computers, being priced at a quite resonable one thousand one hundred.
This computer is aimed at those who are looking for a replacement for their regular laptop computer. This computer will certainly give you good performance, with a whole host of pretty powerful components.
It will probably not however satisfy those who are looking for a light and sleek computer to lug around everywhere.
Lets have a look at the specs of this computer and the pros and cons of the system as a whole.
The processor is an Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz 538. This model is a true mobile chip based on the Pentium 4. It is not the same as the Pentium 4 you would find in your desktop computer, but certainly does a decent job anyway. It supports up to a 533MHz front side bus, which means that the core speed of this chip is 133MHz as the processor is quad pumped, meaning it operates at 4x internal speed.
It takes DDR memory and can support up to 1.5GB of it. There is one slot left over for upgrading if the standard 512MB is not enough. In fact, I would recommend purchasing a 512MB 266MHz SODIMM with this computer if you intend to use it as a serious replacement for a desktop.
The hard drive is a 60GB affair with not too much details available. One consumer reported that the drive was only 56GB. In fact makers of drives all overstate the size of their drives. A true 1MB is 1024KB, each KB is 1024 bytes, so a MB can be interpreted as 1000000bytes or 1024×1024=1048576bytes. Which results in a little discrepency.
The DVD writer is a MatShita drive, which offers good performance, but there have been occassional reports of them not working properly. Reliable on the whole.
Audio is integrated, as well as the graphics. This means that 64MB of the 512MB will be used for video, leaving 448MB for use by other programs.
The screen is 15 inch and the range of other features include: LAN, wireless LAN (which is reported as having good range) and a built in modem. The keyboard is full sized and it uses a touchpad for operation of the mouse pointer.
So, what do I think?
If you are needing a very powerful laptop computer, you can’t go wrong with this deal, it really is good value for money. Many poeple are surprised that refurbished laptop computers don’t have scratches and stuff on them, but they usually don’t.
If you’re looking for something lightweight look elsewhere, as at 7.7lbs, your arms will be getting a good workout carrying this sucker around.
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