Toshiba Satellite L455D-S5976 15.6" Notebook, AMD Sempron SI-42 (2.10GHz), 2GB DDR2 Memory, 250GB H

While the listed $394 price tag is not that extreme, take that listed "$204 off" from a 599.99 base price with a grain of salt.

Overall the reliability record of Toshiba Satellite machines has been quite solid, ranking alongside Asus and Sony in as the best terms of malfunction rates despite some of the lowest prices, so taken from that aspect this is a great budget machine that won't get too hot or eat too much power.

That said, the price is somewhat in line with sale prices you can find of machines one step above this in terms of specs (dual core processor's with 3 gigs of RAM).

If you can find it for $329 or less and don't have needs much heavier than web-browsing/word processing/maybe playing (if you purchase a pair of speakers or at least headphones) than this could be the perfect machine for you.

At $394 however you can probably do better, and if you want to be able to play games a couple years old, use photoshop, mutlitask, etc. then you are probably best of looking for a machine just a touch more powerful than this.

Bought this for my 9 year old son for Christmas!! Got it for $278 at Walmart..Cant beat the price!! It was ready to go right out of the box. Great for surfing the net gaming and everyday tasks. Crisp screen quality and DVD playback is great! Good investment for kids without breaking the bank!!!

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I picked this system as a backup computer to my desktop and to use when I travel. I have to say you get great bang for the buck. It not a light system by any means (heavy...using it on an airplane might be a challenge)but it's fast, and the keyboard is fantastic. I would suggest adding the extra 2GB of ram (comes with 2GB)and bring it to 4GB. The HD TruBrite screen is really nice....Crisp and clean. I purchased the system at Walmart for $278, a steal!

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bought this laptop 6 month ago , it was running very slow from the start, after 3 month it would not load windows anymore, I called Toshiba CS and they agreed to send me a box to ship it to them to have it repaired, apparently it needed a new hard drive and it is a problem they know about ( why not recall them all and fix it?)if yours turns off all the time on its own you need a new hard drive, it took 10 days to get my laptop back, it was covered under warranty and free of charge but a huge inconvenienceI will not buy Toshiba again

ETA: Here we are 6 month later and out of warrantythe same hard drive failure as before,I was told "well you are out of the warranty we can change the drive but now you will have to pay around $250 for it" They will replace the THthe drive is barely 6 month old but the warranty for it was only 30 days!! After a lot of back and forth Toshiba will replace the drive free of charge again for which I am greatful but I am saving up for a new laptop!

ETA again:

I finally received my laptop backhard drive repaired but now the fan does not work!! After 2hours on the phone with several "Toshiba representatives". I have to send it in again so they "can get to the root of the problem". No telling how much longer this will takeToshiba never again!!

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From the first day I got this this thing ran hot. Aside from the overheating it also has random crashes and it is very slow! No one should buy this laptop. Actually you shouldn't even get a toshiba for they are known for overheating constantly.