Customer Reviews

Remanufactured Toshiba Satellite P25-S5263 Laptop (Intel Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, DVD-RW/CD-RW Drive)

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First of all I'll preface this review with some background. This is the third laptop that I've owned and I have to say that I've had pretty good luck with laptops up to this point. This one is no exception. I will also say that at one point I started getting an occasional BSD as was mentioned by other owners, but after I removed windows SP3 things cleared up quite a bit (BTW SP3 caused all sorts of problems with software ID's on all 4 of my computers.I cleaned up the hard drive et al (so it was as if it were never installed). The problems magically went away with all my computers.

Some have said that they've had nothing but problems with this machine, but I've had this thing for at least 5 years. The battery still holds full charge and acts as if it is brand new. The hard drive can run hot, but you can adjust it for silent mode (seems to run a tad cooler). The only thing that was done to this machine was adding more RAM.

If there is any thing that I'd change is the video card. It is weak with 64 MB RAM. It was weak when it came out. They should have put a better one in at the time. I don't play online video games, but I do have my own animation studio. The files that I write in the studio work fine on this laptop. Now they may not have the most screaming requirements to run, but they do still need a fair amount of processing, especially when you convert them to AVI (that can take a LONG time on any computer, including the custom job I built specifically for video processing - that computer's video card costs what a laptop does), but it still does its job.

I thought of upgrading to a new laptop, but the cost/ benefit of such an upgrade isn't justified as of now. This one still does what I need it to do (remember -I don't play online games so that isn't part of my equation).

Hard Drive can burn if left PC left on for long periods, as in most laptops, but this model runs very hot.
It is worth no more than $500 due to being an old model.

Have had one for the past 2 1/2 years. Get a newer model

I've had this computer for about one year. Only one or two blue screens and restarts the first month. Now I average about 4 or 5 per day under heavy usage. I've spent ~$200 trying to fix the problem. Do some research on the internet. You'll find hundreds of people with the same problem. Even so, Toshiba pretends the problem doesn't exist. I will NEVER buy another Toshiba product.