Toshiba Satellite L300: specifications and reviews. Review: Toshiba Satellite A300 - All-in-One Home Laptop Toshiba Satellite 300

On the left, a large number of ports are concentrated in front of the panel. The ExpressCard 34/54 slot is covered with a plastic spring cap. Below it is a four-pin connector firewire and two USB ports, one of which is combined with e-SATA. Below you can see the socket for connection local network, connector HDMI And S-VIDEO. The sequence of connectors is interrupted by a grill in the housing Toshiba Satellite A300, through which the heated air is removed by the fan from the case. The grid cells are large, you can see a massive radiator. At the very hinge of the lid there is a classic D-SUB for connecting an external monitor.

IN Lately there is a clear trend towards the transfer of any functional elements from the front panel to other parts of the case. Here, manufacturers meet users halfway - the front panel is not the most convenient place for any ports / buttons / slots. IN Toshiba Satellite A300 there are a lot of interfaces and controls, and therefore it is problematic to place everything on the side panels and I had to move them forward. There is an on/off switch on the left. wireless communication. In the center is a multi-format card reader slot, audio jacks and a volume wheel.

The touchpad is slightly offset to the left of the center Toshiba Satellite A300, but with the same striped ornament that continues the coloration of the wrist pads, only darkened. A cursory glance may not notice this ornament at all - the touchpad will seem completely black. It is made on the same level with the working surface, limited only by a change in tactile characteristics - the touchpad is not glossy, but slightly rough. The keys are in close proximity, large and rounded, with a metallized coating.

Keyboard Toshiba Satellite A300 black and glossy, in style with everything else. It is slightly recessed into the case in such a way that the surface of the keys is just at the level of the pads for the wrists. The keys are a comfortable size, on three sides the edges are slightly beveled and rounded. The layout is standard, Latin and Cyrillic characters are printed in white. Other designations are light blue and very miniature.

Above the keyboard is a glossy black panel, which contains interesting elements. First of all, two large speakers in the corners, covered with transparent plastic elements, are striking. These speakers have an extended sound range, which should have a positive effect on sound quality. Toshiba Satellite A300. A similar sound system can be observed on the famous Toshiba Qosmio, which traditionally have a good sound. In the center of the panel is a row of functional elements. Not far from the left speaker, you can see a round button on / off the laptop. To the right is a number of touch controls that perform multimedia functions: turn the sound on / off, control the operation of the players. Next to the right speaker, you can see the inscription "harman / kardon", indicating that the speakers belong to a famous brand in the world of acoustic systems.

The indication of the operating modes of the keyboard is also interesting. The green LED reflecting the CapsLock mode is built right into the key of the same name. The ScrollLock and NumberLock mode indicators are located under the corresponding keys and are also green.

The lid is attached to the body on one wide hinge. The closing mechanism is spring-loaded, without any locks. Glossy display finish Toshiba Satellite A300, in our opinion, for the scope of the laptop is best suited: the contrast is higher than that of matte counterparts. And the matte screen would stand out from the overall glossy design. When working indoors with bright lighting or outdoors, you will need to find a comfortable place so that the screen does not glare. Soft pads are placed along the perimeter of the display frame to soften contact with the case. At the top center, on a slightly protruding platform, is a webcam. On the right you can see the hole of the built-in microphone. Below, under the screen, the company logo is applied in light letters.

Design Toshiba Satellite A300 stylish, you can even call it glamorous: black glossy surfaces are interspersed with silver and metallic elements. Looks nice and very harmonious. The layout of interfaces and controls may not be ideal, a little cramped in some places, especially on the left, but with such a variety, you can turn a blind eye to this.

Toshiba Satellite A300 | Ergonomics and user experience

Build quality is good: case Toshiba Satellite A300 does not creak anywhere, the work surface and the keyboard do not bend when pressed. The materials are not expensive, but this is not surprising for this price niche. You should not expect practicality from an absolutely glossy laptop: it gets dirty very quickly. The supplied napkin will come in handy, no doubt, and you will have to use it often.

Touchpad Toshiba Satellite A300 pleasant to use, accurate with moderate sensitivity. The keys are large and comfortable, but the metallic coating is a little confusing: how long will it last. The operating experience of such elements suggests that over time this coating will be erased and the appearance will suffer from this. The keyboard may look beautiful due to the glossiness, but it sticks to slightly sweaty hands. And this causes a slight feeling of discomfort. But in general, the quality is acceptable: there are no false positives, the key travel is soft with a clear fixation of positions.

On the left, the interfaces are very cramped, especially those under the ExpressCard slot. If for firewire plugs are very tiny, then USB flash drives are very wide. The location of the audio connectors in front also cannot be called a good solution, and the card reader slot is devoid of a plug.

Acoustic system Toshiba Satellite A300 made us happy. Of course, it is far from external systems, but for an integrated system, the sound quality is very good. Low frequencies are weakly expressed, but the averages are audible more distinctly than on many multimedia laptops. When playing music, the membranes vibrate very effectively. The volume level is good, however, the editors do not recommend setting the maximum value so as not to damage the speakers.

Let Toshiba Satellite A300 in operation, not very practical, gets dirty, but this is the price that some people are willing to pay for a pleasant appearance. Well, functionality is great. I really liked the touch control panel and the built-in speaker system.

Toshiba Satellite A300 | Performance Testing

Before us is a multimedia laptop, which should be able to solve a wide range of user tasks. And therefore, its performance should be at a good level. According to the specifications, everything is very good: a dual-core microprocessor, a large amount of memory, a discrete graphics card should allow you to listen to music and watch movies, "surf" the Web and play. Let's see how things really are. For results, we used standard 3DMark benchmarks for gaming performance and PCMark for general user scenarios. Well, according to tradition, we separately measured the performance of the hard drive. All results are presented in the graphs below.

Very even results. The first diagram shows that all components of the system have decent performance, while the second one demonstrates the good performance of the laptop in user scenarios. Let's see how Toshiba Satellite A300 show up in games.

The results are very good. You can play on this machine without problems. It is likely that even modern games will start with sparing settings at an acceptable frame rate. Let's look at the bottleneck performance modern computers- hard drive.

Performance is typical for notebook drives with a spindle speed of 5400 rpm. During testing with synthetic tests, we traditionally notice strange results on cached operations. Here and now the speed of the cached record "dipped". However, there is no doubt that in real scenarios this will not affect performance.

Based on the test results, it can be said that Toshiba Satellite A300 confidently cope with all user tasks. Unless it's possible to get a comfortable FPS level on modern "heavy" games, but there shouldn't be any problems with less resource-intensive games.

Toshiba Satellite A300 | Temperature and time battery life

The efficiency of the cooling system is an important parameter. Components subjected to constant overheating will have a shorter service life. Let's see how hot it is inside Toshiba Satellite A300. We subjected the main components to the maximum load and followed the temperature dynamics. Take a look at the chart below.

When testing universal home laptops, as they say, "mainstream", there is always an interesting problem. On the one hand, the case and everything connected with it are the same for the entire line. Those. once having examined the case, you can describe your impressions and stop there.

On the other hand, the configurations differ very significantly, and this has a serious impact on positioning. Firstly, different platforms (AMD or Intel) can be used in the same case. Secondly, the same model in different configurations can be oriented both to the demanding gamer and to the simplest application of "texts and the Internet", or even to work in the field of small business. Accordingly, the choice of configuration (platform, processor, video solution, HDD etc.) is very wide, and, depending on the filling, the laptop will be focused on performing completely different tasks. However, it will still be one model!

Accordingly, with the same body, the performance different models, including such indicators as heating and noise, will be seriously different. As a result, it turns out that in order to adequately describe the functionality of the entire line, it is necessary to test 3-4 models of different configurations (which are still constantly changing), and it must be tested simultaneously (since there will be no independent material for each configuration, there is too little new information).

Finally, from functionality specific model the price also depends a lot. The difference can be almost double! By the way, these considerations should be kept in mind when reading reviews of almost all laptops, not only our today's guest, Toshiba A300. If you like the case, but don't need such a powerful configuration, it's worth checking out, the manufacturer's arsenal almost certainly has models with more modest characteristics, but at much more affordable prices.

Well, let's now look at our today's guest - a Toshiba Satellite A300 laptop with a fairly powerful configuration.

Frame

As we already noted in the P300 review, in new series Toshiba has again redesigned the design. The color scheme has changed, instead of blue and light silver, laptops are now black with different shades of silver gray. Secondly, the entire laptop is now glossy, even the keyboard. This is really a new stylistic solution, however, it has both pluses and minuses. The laptop looks very elegant, it is pleasant to look at it (it makes a particularly strong impression in a store where the light is very bright). But at the same time, the case is very easily soiled, any dirt is visible on it (for example, after I moved it from place to place a couple of times, the entire cover turned out to be covered with fingerprints, and the laptop looked untidy). In addition, all scratches and scuffs will be visible on it. In general, you should be careful when wearing the A300, the laptop gets dirty very quickly. And here it applies to the keyboard panel, and to the keyboard itself.

The body is rectangular, with straight sides and very rounded corners. There are no sharp corners at all. The lid and body are stylistically separate, they don't look together when closed. In addition, the corners of both the lid and the body are smoothed, i.e. there is a huge gap between them. Most likely, the designers were guided by the fact that most of the time the laptop will stand on the table with open lid, i.e. more important is how it will look open, not closed.

By the way, due to this slot it is very convenient to open the lid - it is easy to take the corner with your fingers. The lid does not have a latch, it is held only by the rigidity of the hinges. The lid is made on l-shaped hinges, so it does not rise up, but leans back, and the matrix during operation is lower than usual for laptops.

At first I didn't like this style (I never got used to the P300, for example), but after I worked with the A300 for a while and got used to it, the overall impression of the laptop's design became very positive. Both closed (thanks to the design of the lid) and open laptop on the table looks very nice. By the way, I really liked the screen frame: firstly, it is in itself a beautiful shade, and secondly, it is matte (as it turned out during testing, the glossy shiny frame of the matrix distracts from the screen very much).

Ergonomically, I also liked the laptop. Due to the fact that the matrix leans back, there is no space for connectors on the rear panel, respectively, they are all located on the side faces. By the way, please note that there is a marking above the connectors on the keyboard panel, i.e. you can insert the plug by touch - you can see where this or that connector is located. It is very convenient at work!

Front located infrared port(for remote remote control), multi-format card reader (it is convenient to use here), audio jacks (inconvenient - the plug sticks out forward and the cable dangles in front of the laptop. You can put on the plug with a wide sleeve).

On the left side there is an analog output to an external monitor, then there is an exhaust ventilation grill, an S-Video output, next to it is a digital HDMI output (by the way, there are configurations without it), next is a wired network connector, an eSATA port, a USB port and firewire. Above them is an Expresscard slot (if a card with a protruding part is inserted there, you won't get to the ports below).

On the right side there are two USB ports, a modem connector, an optical drive, a power connector, a Kensington lock port.

In general, the presence and location of ports is at a good level, there are four USB ports, HDMI and S-Video ports. The only significant remark is that the audio connectors are located on the front side, which can interfere with work.

Specifications and test results

Let's take a look at the specifications of the model we were given for testing, the A300-1OG. Please note that in the middle is the letter "O", not zero. Here is a link to the models on the Russian site.

The configuration is quite powerful, especially for a general purpose home laptop. The processor is very good, there is a lot of RAM (the maximum amount for a 32-bit system, it makes no sense to put more memory), a modern video adapter, a 320 gigabyte hard drive.

Before proceeding to the tests, let's evaluate the formal indicators of the main components.

Detailed information about the graphics subsystem:

Testing

First, as usual, we measure the integrated performance of the system in PCMark 05 and Vantage, 3DMark05 (in brackets - the rating of the processor, memory, graphics and disk), 3Dmark06 (in brackets are the results of subtests SM2.0, HDR / SM3, CPU), Cinebench (Performance test 1 core/2 cores/work in OpenGL). In addition, we measured the time for calculating mathematical parameters in the SuperPi wPrime programs.

Separately, it is worth showing the results of PCMark Vantage by subsystems. They help to understand the contribution to the overall performance of various components.

Here are the results of the standard Windows Vista benchmark. It allows you to fairly adequately assess the approximate performance of the system. In addition, any user can compare the results of his system with the one under test without installing any additional programs into the system.

The weakest component was "Graphics for games", this parameter shows the rating of the graphics subsystem as a whole.

Temperature regime

As you can see, the cooling system did its job well, the temperature did not rise very much. For comparison, is the temperature of the system at rest.

Subjectively, the laptop is warm, palm rests warm up to 32-33 degrees. The exhaust at idle is 36 degrees, under medium load is 47, at maximum performance it is 54 degrees.

CPU, memory and hard drive testing

Processor performance is measured in seven Everest benchmarks.

CPU Test - AES

CPU Test - Photoworxx

CPU Test - Queen

CPU Test - zLib

FPU test - Julia

FPU test - Mandel

FPU Test - SinJulia

Memory subsystem performance

Reading from memory:

Memory entry:

Data copying:

Memory delays:

Hard drive testing

The disk subsystem was tested separately.

In general, the disk is quite fast, although the access time could be less.

Testing in games

Gaming tests load all subsystems of the laptop and allow you to determine the maximum performance. In addition, games are the very real applications for which the laptop is bought, that is, users will be able to determine whether the X200-21U will give the desired level of performance in games or not.

With the exception of Crysis, which is heavily loaded even on desktop systems, all games work with high speed. If you do not chase the latest releases, the performance of the tested laptop is more than enough.

Battery life

Testing was carried out in three modes: minimum load mode (reading text from the screen), while watching a movie and with a load on all subsystems. The tests were carried out in Windows Vista, power saving settings were set to the minimum in the first test, to adaptive values ​​in the second, and to the maximum in the third. Screen brightness is always set to maximum.

The battery capacity was 94576 mWh.

The laptop that we tested had a bad battery (it was a sample for tests), this can even be seen from the discharge graph - after the battery reached the 30% charge level, there was a sharp decline. Therefore, the results do not reflect the real picture of battery life. It seems to me that with a working battery, the A300 should work somewhere 25-30% more. During testing, it was not possible to access another laptop.

Subjective testing

Keyboard

The keyboard of the A300 has some peculiarities in use. When typing, the keyboard left a good impression, the keystrokes are quite clear and elastic. The keyboard is noisy, while typing the keys hit the substrate.

The layout used, as I have repeatedly said, is unsuccessful. The left shift is made short, next to it is another useless backslash. Because of this, typing is quite difficult, especially if you switched from a keyboard that does not have such a layout - instead of shift, you constantly hit this key. You can get used to it, but typing is still uncomfortable, and it is difficult to switch to other keyboards and back.

The second disadvantage is that the glossy keys are slippery, fingers are unstable when typing, often slip off the key. When you get used to the keyboard, this drawback almost disappears, but still.

Of the pluses, it is worth noting the ctrl located in the corner. Editing is quite convenient, the cursor is convenient to use, del is located in the corner and is easy to find by touch, the cursor shortcut keys are located in a vertical column.

The touchpad is made flush with the body, the color of the touchpad is darker than that of the palm rests, but it is also made in stripes. The touchpad is built well. The traditional two touchpad buttons are made huge here and stand out sharply in the body. It does not bring practical benefits, but it looks interesting.

Additional keys and indicators

The indicators of the new models glow white and are located under the touchpad buttons. When the laptop is turned off, the indicators are not visible. There are four indicators in total - network connection, operation, battery status and access to the hard drive. I would like to immediately see the indicator of wireless interfaces, it is located in an inconvenient place - on the front beveled edge, next to the switch. The only way to see it is to bend over hard and look under the laptop (well, or lift the front of the laptop).

In working condition, the strip above the touchpad is illuminated with white light and the multimedia player buttons located above the keyboard are lit. If you are watching a movie in the dark, finding the main controls is easy and convenient. In case the backlight is annoying (in the dark it can distract from the screen), there is a special button to disable this backlight.

Screen and sound

Toshiba has a mirror matrix with a resolution of 1440x900 pixels. From the point of view of work, the matrix is ​​convenient in terms of size / resolution - the characters are of sufficient size, you can read texts (including on web pages) without problems.

Mirror matrix. This makes the picture brighter and richer in multimedia applications, but the matrix glare is very strong. It reflects everything around, i.e. in dark scenes in movies and games, your own reflection may be brighter and more distinct than the image on the screen. In some situations, watching a movie is simply difficult.

The A300 uses sound developed by Harman-Kardon. The sound is good for a laptop, you can work without problems with the built-in acoustics. It seemed to me that the A300 has a rather specific transmission, it plays mainly mid frequencies and is somehow a little boomy. This was also noted by colleagues who heard how the laptop plays music. But in general, the level of acoustics is good.

Positioning and Conclusions

A300 is a versatile home laptop aimed at a wide audience. In principle, it has everything to satisfy the needs of the average user - an attractive appearance, a fairly good level of performance, good opportunities for working with video and sound on their own, and a convenient set of "home" interfaces, including HDMI, a comfortable keyboard, and in general good ergonomics.

It is also worth remembering that in the A300 line there are a lot of different configurations, focused both on gaming and multimedia applications, and on work. Accordingly, the price of the model also changes.

Toshiba Satellite A300: appearance

Packaging, delivery set and a little about the software

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: packing box

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: scope of delivery

Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator

Toshiba Assist Utility

ConfigFree (Connectivity Doctor)

CD/DVD Drive Acoustic Silencer Utility

Web Camera Toolbar

Web Camera: Photographing and Recording

Web Camera: Photo Viewer

Web Camera: video and sound playback

Web Camera Effects

Toshiba Face Recognition

Google Picasa2

Google Picasa2: Image Editing

Ulead DVD MovieFactory for TOSHIBA

Ulead Label@Ones

Windows Movie Maker

Toshiba Disc Creator

Toshiba Dvd Player

Windows Media Center

Adobe Reader 8

Microsoft Works

Microsoft Office 2007 with 60 days license

McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008

Exterior: design and ergonomics

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ front view

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: wireless interface slider

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: opening angle

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: open

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: webcam and microphone

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: keyboard

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: touchpad

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: Status LEDs

Mains power indicator (lights up when the laptop is connected to the power supply);
Power indicator (glows white when the laptop is turned on, blinks orange when the laptop goes to sleep, off when the computer is turned off);
Battery indicator (blinks orange when the battery is low, glows orange when the battery is charging; glows white - the battery is fully charged and the computer is connected to the power supply, off - in all other cases);
Activity indicator (shows that the computer is accessing storage devices: hard drive or optical drive, lights up at the moment of access);
Indicator of access to the card reader.

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: illuminated series logo

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: stereo speakers

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: multimedia keys

Laptop power button;
Backlight off key;
Multimedia player launch key (CD/DVD button);
Play/Pause key;
Playback stop key;
Key for selecting the previous track;
Key for selecting the next track.

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: left side view

15-pin D-Sub connector for connecting an external monitor;
TV-Out port (S-video), provides connection to a TV;
Connector for connecting a laptop to a local network (LAN port RJ-45);
Two USB ports;
26-pin ExpressCard 34/54;
4-pin IEEE1394 (FireWire) port.

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: right side view

Two USB ports;
Connector for connecting a modem to a telephone line (RJ-11);
Drive unit optical discs, with an activity indicator, a CD eject button and an emergency opening located on it;
Connector for power supply connection;
Kensington lock port (allows you to secure your laptop with Kensington-compatible security products).

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: rear view

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: Battery

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: bottom

Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ: RAM compartment

Interior: interior content

Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 in two test power modes

Intel Crestline PM965

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Test Methodology

Sidebar - disabled;
Welcome Center - disabled;
Screen Saver - disabled;
Windows Defender - disabled;
System Protection - disabled;
Windows Update - disabled;
Scheduled disk defragmentation - disabled;
User Account Control - disabled;
Screen brightness set to maximum;
Resolution of the liquid crystal matrix - maximum, 1280x800;
Aero-interface - enabled;
Desktop Theme - Windows Vista;
Volume level - 10%.

Synthetic benchmarks for overall performance (PCMark Vantage and SYSmark 2007);
Game performance tests (3DMark 2006 1.1.0, 3DMark Vantage, Half Life 2: Episode Two, F.E.A.R., BioShock, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, World in Conflict).

Productivity mode - "torn" serious load on the system;
Reader mode - emulation of reading a pdf file (in the "Read" test mode, the page is rewound every 2 minutes);
Movie (DVD) viewing mode.

Testing

The "Memories" scenario is dedicated to evaluating the performance of systems when working with a digital media archive, including amateur photos and home videos.
The TV and Movies test uses high-definition video playback and transcoding as a load.
The "Gaming" test measures the platform's suitability for running 3D gaming applications.
The "Music" scenario is mainly about transcoding audio files of various formats.
The "Communication" test simulates visiting web resources, working with email and use of IP-telephony.
"Productivity" is another simple scenario that simulates working with typical office applications;
And the last test, "HDD", evaluates the performance of the hard drive only.

Advantages and disadvantages of Toshiba Satellite A300-1JJ

"Brilliant" and attractive appearance;
Reasonable cost;
Good performance;
High-quality acoustics;
Touch block of buttons with the ability to turn off the backlight;
Ability to charge via USB ports with the laptop turned off.

"Glass" coating of the matrix;
Short battery life;
Modest delivery set;
A lot of easily soiled surfaces (especially the keyboard and touchpad buttons);
Small viewing angles of the matrix.

Conclusion

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L300 looks interesting. Its surface is painted silver, and the ends on the sides of the case are black. At the same time, the laptop has a rather stylish look. Although in reality the model is presented as a budget device. There is a certain play of color on the inner and outer panels of the case - dark contrasts with light. The design is well thought out. Black computers are very clearly visible on the silver under palm area. The upper part of the case is made without any decorations, there is only the company logo. The matte cover is quite reliable and practical. Almost all computer panels are matte, but the display is glossy. Design Notebook Satellite L300 is calm and measured, it can even be called modest.

Display

The L300 has a 15.4-inch widescreen display with a resolution of 1280x800. It has excellent color reproduction (up to 16.7 million shades). In addition, the WXGA screen has an excellent margin of brightness, and its image is very clear. This makes it possible to watch movies in good quality. However, the mirror surface of the Toshiba TruBrite screen can, in addition to the benefit of image saturation, be annoying if there are a lot of reflections and glare. Everything about this laptop is great, but the viewing angles aren't exactly perfect, it's mostly vertical. But the horizontal ones are very good, they are quite wide.

Keyboard and touchpad

Now let's talk about input devices. Keyboard Toshiba Satellite L300 has 87 buttons. You can't call it rigid, and the lack of this quality during typing can give deflections. The operation of the buttons themselves is quite smooth and almost silent.

This keyboard has its drawbacks. For example, small gaps between the buttons. Fingers while typing can jump to adjacent keys. In addition, the arrow buttons are made too narrow. The layout and labeling is excellent. Just below the spacebar is the touch pad. It has a slightly recessed surface, which makes it quite comfortable to use, since the fingers do not jump out of the pad. While the touchpad itself is responsive, the keys below it are hard to press.

CPU

Now let's talk about the performance of Toshiba Satellite L300. The characteristics of the processor will be given below. In the meantime, we note that there is no operating system installed on the computer. For some, this is not so convenient, because before you start work, you will have to do the settings. However, for advanced users, this is rather a plus, since they themselves can choose the system that they will use on their device and its parameters.

The laptop has a single core Intel processor Celeron 575 with 1MB L2 cache and clock frequency 2 GHz. This option is great for entry-level laptops, and while it's not as fast or performant, it's not expensive. In addition, the Celeron 575 has RAM, which is 2 GB. It can be expanded up to 4 GB, which will improve performance in solving various computing tasks.

The hard drive of this model has a capacity of 160 GB. Today, such an indicator has become the norm, it is quite enough to carry out daily work with files, store texts and programs. The graphics of this computer is represented by a built-in video card. Its performance is enough for undemanding games with low and medium settings. GMA 4500MHD allows you to correct photos, work with office programs. This means that the limited capabilities of this video card (Blu-ray playback, video file decoding) can be used in simple applications.

Other characteristics

WITH right side Toshiba Satellite L300 is built-in optical drive, a port where you can connect peripheral equipment, as well as a power socket. There is a hole at the end. The front of the laptop has two microphone and headphone jacks, and there is also a wireless switch. On the left side there is an ExpressCard/54 expansion slot and two USB ports - one above the other, there is also a fifteen-pin D-SUB video output. In addition, there is an RJ-45 network connector. And USB interfaces support Sleep Charge technology, it helps to charge a mobile phone or player, even when the computer is turned off.

This laptop also has ports on the back. In particular, a connector for connecting a modem. Although the number of ports is not very large, but they are quite enough for work.

Now let's talk about the autonomy of Toshiba Satellite L300. The accumulator is six-section lithium-ion. The capacity is 4800 mAh. This battery allows you to work autonomously for about 3 hours.

A budget laptop allows you to solve a wide variety of tasks, its functions are quite enough to meet the needs of not too demanding users. It is equipped with an excellent display, has sufficient system performance for an entry-level, an interesting design, in which there is a contrast of silver and black colors. Separately, it should be said that each port and connector of this computer is well thought out. The case has matte panels. Of the shortcomings, only the glossy coating of the display, which reflects objects, can be noted. Otherwise, this model corresponds to the declared level. If the Toshiba Satellite L300 does not turn on, we recommend that you turn off the power to the device overnight and remove the battery. In the morning you can put everything together and the problem should be fixed. If this does not help, contact the service center.