Shopping CartToshiba Satellite L655-S5158 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black)
date : September 17th, 2011Toshiba
Review : 3 Reviews
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Tags : 15.6Inch, Black, L655S5158, Laptop, Satellite, Toshiba
- Intel Core i3-380M Processor 2.53 GHz, 3MB Cache
- Configured with 4GB DDR3 1066MHz (max 8GB)
- 640GB (5400 RPM); Serial ATA hard disk drive with TOSHIBA Hard Drive Impact Sensor (3D sensor)
- 15.6-inch diagonal widescreen TruBrite LED TFT display at 1366 x 768 native resolution (HD) with native support for 720p content; HDMI port
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with a 6 cell/48Wh Lithium Ion battery pack; Battery Life (measured by MobileMark 2007): 5 hours, 14 minutes
For plenty of power, plus room to multitask, study and play, the Satellite L655 laptop is a great choice, with its famous Toshiba quality, value and style, and a generous 15.6” diagonal TruBrite HD display. This larger screen is great for doing more things at once, handling business at home or in the field, watching movies or playing online RPG games. New multi-core processors from Intel and AMD, plus lots of memory and storage, make it a strong all-around performer for students, small-busines
Got one a month ago from Toshiba Direct,
After my overpriced, underperforming, Vista disabled HP laptop died on me, I shopped around for a good deal on a budget priced, reliable laptop. Asus is the only laptop brand that has better reliability than Toshiba (see [...]). When I checked the Toshibas, this is the model they were pushing (and apparently, still are). It’s got an even bigger screen than I expected. It has a full size keyboard with a number pad on the right. It’s a little large for carting around, but it is incredibly high performing with a great display. When I put a tumb drive in to copy some folders and files, I wondered why it wasn’t working. I was used to watching the little folder transfer icons on my HP. Well, I was wrong – it did work. It just worked so quickly I didn’t even see it. It transferred a ton of data in the blink of an eye. I’ve only had it a month, so I can’t speak to longevity. But the battery life is reasonably good, and it’s a great computer – especially at the price!
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|Not bad for the money,
This is a pretty good laptop for what your going to pay but there are some things that could use some work. The touchpad is a pain. While trying to move around a page, it constantly zooms in or out or slides the entire page down. That can be very annoying if you are working on a paper or something like that. I suggest if you buy this laptop to invest in an external mouse and just turn the touchpad off. Also, the speakers are terrible. If you plan on using this laptop to listen to music or stream movies, invest in some headphones or an external speaker.
Other than that, it does what I need it to do and, again, for the price, I don’t think you will find a better laptop. It runs nice and cool and is silent as a mouse.
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|great laptop, good speakers,
I’m typing this just thinking about what I wanted to know before I bought so this will be very back and forth as I’m thinking. For the price this is a great laptop. This one is replacing and older desktop that is close to death so I’m not picky. I like the number keypad but if you don’t like having that like some people then don’t buy a laptop with the number pad so you can’t complain. I can actually type without having to turn off the touch pad unlike other laptops I’ve used. The lock for the touch pad is below the space bar so it would be easy to turn off if you end up with problems typing. It’s also great to have the multi touch touch pad to zoom in and out. I can find the delete, number lock and insert keys easily so that’s good. The backup took about an hour and used 3 DVD disk to complete plus one disk for the system repair disk. It has a great screen for watching Hulu unless you are use to extremely large screens. The speakers are good for a laptop. Really do you expect much from laptop speakers? I turned up the volume on both the player and main volume control and could back up where multiple people could watch and hear. They are better than other laptop speakers I have used where you have to hover inches from the screen to hear or use headphones. I’m happy with it. The web cam did well with Skype. It has a microphone which low end laptops don’t always have. The blue light to tell you the web cam is on is a little bright but maybe that will help when in low light. Plus you’ll know when you’re on camera when it activates and blinds you for a couple of seconds. I’m having to get use to the windows 7 but already like the ease of sharing files with my wife’s laptop. I haven’t tested the battery life yet but everything I read said it has really long life if you use the correct settings with dimmer display and short time before sleep kicks in. I set mine to that when not plugged in but always awake when plugged in for when I use it to play videos. I’ll see how the battery life does this weekend while out of town. I don’t notice it getting hot. I don’t hear much mechanical noise unless the fan to the left kicks on but that’s not often. If you are use to a more expensive laptop you may say this is a loud laptop. There is extra software added but I think that’s fairly usual and I don’t see much extra crap to be removed. With a 20% discount this was the same price as some other’s I was looking at (also at a discount) but it had a larger hard drive by 150GB and a GB more memory. The one thing I didn’t read that I don’t like is that the memory card slot only takes the SD style cards/adapters. My wife’s much cheaper Acer has a multi card reader that will accept SD style and XD. We have Olympus cameras that use the XD cards. I can use an adapter or just upload to her laptop and transfer to mine so I’m not too upset over this. It probably is written somewhere in the specs but I just didn’t see it. I hope this answers any questions you have. I used the laptop last night without the cord and the battery life is great. It ran for about 4 hours before I got the 10% warning. I also hadn’t turned on the eco utility until the last 30 minutes which dims the screen by 1 level, turns off unimportant programs and resets the standby to about 2 minutes of unuse. I’m sure with that it would easily reach the 5 hour battery life that is in the specs. It does have a cool chart when using the eco utility that shows the amount of power being used at that moment. Normal use when I checked was around 20-25 watts and the eco utility on setting dropped it to 8-10 watts.
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