I just bought this laptop two weeks ago. The mouse and touch pad would not work or lockup once I typed my password to login. It would work sometimes. I did the reformat where you don't loose any thing and took like ten min and now the cursor works just fine. Probably some driver issue.The speakers are good, dvd drive, Love that it has a built in camera that is clear and crisp when taking pictures.
Windows 8 is something to get use to. Its like a Tablet, you have to install all apps, or buy the software. There is not pre loaded games or templates to write in. We did download games for my son age six and he loves them. Its a great laptop for under 300.00. Glad my cursor works
Windows 8 is puzzle wrapped in an enigma smothered with hubris and served without regard for customer desires. It departs drastically from Microsoft's well-defined workflow in that the Start Menu has been mercilessly (that is, without regard to customer desires) ripped from [stop me before I write again]
Ahem. Sorry about that. I'm actually quite pleased with my purchase. It was cheap, and has everything I [will] need for future use: a 64-bit operating system. I don't game any more, so no need for fancy graphics, but it has a nice enough dual-core processor and a wide enough screen for 16X9 movies, which I do watch. The really nice thing is that it's portable and I can work in bed downstairs and/or take it with me camping, which we do a lot of in summer. The only thing I would change if I could would be to get a larger screen, since I prefer to look at a lot of code at a time and/or web browser or pdf reader windows. It does have a VGA out in the side, so I could use a spare monitor if I had one, but that does defeat the "portable" thing, doesn't it?
And the start menu? Sourceforge project Classic Shell is free, open-source donationware (i.e., free to cheap guys like me) that gives you the option of a classic (Windows 98ish), Windows XP, or Vista/7 Start menu (I picked Windows 7). It put a Start button back on my taskbar (shaped like a shell with the Windows colors) and has a ton of other features and settings that include allowing me to boot directly to the "normal" desktop. I never have to see the Metro interface again (whatever it's called now).
To make a developer's box, I installed the aforementioned Android Bundle and the 64-bit JDK (the one at the bottom; be careful not to mix up this, as it leads to non-understandable error messages), as well as Visual Studio 2010, for which I have a license but not, alas, Visual Studio 2012. I also have held off doing much else until I ghost the whole business with a bootable Clonezilla CD and a 64GB thumbdrive. I can say I recommend all of this highly, starting with the great Toshiba machine itself, especially at a fire sale price.Well, I bought it in $342.00 and it's ok the cost. When I saw in first time, I saw it great, the laptop is fast, the finish is wonderfull. I consider the laptop is worth buy it.i had two little netbooks that were on the verge of dying, so i needed an affordable full-time computer STAT. this computer is just what the doctor ordered. it's thin and light, so it's easy to transport, it has a nice big screen and enough RAM to multitask like a champ, and plenty of harddrive space. it starts up quick and loads programs swiftly, and i really like the textured casing.
the only significant complaint i have are that WINDOWS 8 IS A HUGE PAIN IN THE POSTERIOR. really, this is not an OS made for a laptop/desktop machine. it'd be great for a tablet or a touchscreen PC, but it's really cumbersome for this sort of computer, in more ways than one. but you can read about all the reasons Windows 8 is a drag elsewhere, there's tons of people who agree. aside from that, the screen is shiny, not matte, so it collects dust super easily, and also the mousepad is not very sensiitive, but i use a wireless mouse anyway so that hasn't been an issue for me.
overall i feel this is a great laptop for a great price, perfect for word-processing (if you provide your own WP, since Microsoft still expects you to buy them separate from your OS), watching movies (i recommend external speakers tho, as the internal ones aren't very powerful), or freelance graphic art (runs Photoshop with ease!).Its okay. but it doesn't have HD. I thought it did when I bought it, it's okay though for the money I spent on it. It does the rest of what I need it for.
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