Toshiba PSAT9U-00F004 I3-330m 2.13/4gb/500gb/dvd-sm/16

I Love this computer,i have had it for about 7 mo. It does everything I want it to do and then some,the only changes i did to it is i took out the 2 2gigs of ram memory total 4 and put in two 4s for total of 8 rams,Now there is no video game that it doesn't play really well,It was good before for games under 1 gig.I have had 4 laptops.and this is by for the best.This review is for the satellite A505.

Excellent laptop computer. Much better than my desktop Dell computer which is 5 years old. I do not have any complaints except that it comes with 4 gigs of ram, 2 gigs in two slots of two. So to add ram you have to open up one slot which means throwing away 2 gigs of ram. Buy 4 gigs of ram means you only add 2 gigs. That is my only complaint so far after one month.

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I am in the IT field (but do not regularly buy/maintain hardware for my job) and find computers rather difficult to review since it depends on what you need for your purposes and you may always get a lemon. Some factors to consider would be if there are shipping costs, if you want to buy at a physical location (so you can potentially take it back easily), or if you need serious customer support because you are technically impaired (my coworkers would swear that apple has the best service.)

That said, I have had this one around 6 months and am satisfied and would recommend it (depending, as I said, on what your individual priorities are.)

Previously, I have owned or maintained (for personal/family use) Acers, Compaqs, Dells, Emachines, and HPs --I am most disillusioned with the last HP I bought to use as a media center (DVR, essentially), but I digress. This time, I wanted to try a Toshiba or Sony. I also really wanted a 10key pad on board in case I have to use the keyboard directly --I love keyboard shortcuts and am very picky about my keyboards --which narrowed the field considerably. After doing some research , I settled on this since the CNET reviews were decent and the price was in my range.

It is a giant, heavy monster but I do not plan to carry it around much. Mostly I wanted to save space (vs a tower) and have the option of portability. Since I usually trade out my pc every 3 years or so and do not need any special peripherals (mostly I do internet and ms office computing, nothing too demanding), I wasn't planning on expansion (one of the pros in having a tower.) Battery life is supposed to be long but I have it plugged in for the most part and haven't put it to the test. I wanted decent ram and a larger hard drive (at least 500GB) and I like having a firewire port to attach an external hd (the one peripheral I do have) for backups and free up one more usb port. Graphics and sound were not a must for my uses although those are supposed to be quite good (and have been fine for me.)

Minor downside are the touch sensitive controls for music --I'd rather have tactile buttons, since, in my experience, they never register half the time when I am trying to use them and this one ran true to form --but in any case I have another keyboard plugged in with better controls anyway (yes, I use both the built in keyboard and another keyboard plugged in as the mood strikes.) Major downside is that it was at least a hundred more than I ideally wanted to spend (I got it in the mid/higher $800s and was hoping for more like low $700s) But given that it was the brand and keyboard I wanted and keeping the ram and hard drive space up always adds to the cost on laptops especially --I went for it.

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