Customer Reviews

Satellite L305-S5921 T3400 2.16G,2G,160G,DVD±R/RW,802.11B/G,15.4",WVHP

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A great all-around machine at a budget price. Doesn't feel like a budget machine. Pros:
- Plenty fast 2 Ghz core duo, 2 GB RAM
- Intel graphics chipset (GMA 4500) which is 2x the speed of earlier laptop video chips from Intel, DirectX10, 720p native - snappy with Vista Aero
- nice keyboard, good crisp key action, well laid out
- glorious screen, bright (even under battery power) and super crisp
- very useful multimedia controls: stop/start/FF work with Media player & DVDs, front edge volume, headphone & mic ports
- front edge switch for wifi (on/off)

Cons:
- screen resolution tops at 1280x800
- HDD only 160 GB (140 GB usable)
- won't play games well at max res - not a portable gaming computer
- battery life only a couple hours (keeping that screen lit up uses a lot of power)

If you are like me and use an external drive to sync your tunes to a MP3 player, then the HDD should be plenty large. If you demand your tunes with you, it may not be enough. Same if you need hardcore gaming in your laptop.

I fired up Audacity and did some recording, it handled it flawlessly. I'll be doing a lot of recording on this machine. DVDs are smooth, and Vista responds very well on this machine. USed Zune SW to play music & show a slideshow & did some surfing - handled it just fine.

I bought this laptop from [...] they had it for [...] free shipping, could not refuse the bait, I bought an additional 4gb of kingston hyperx 800mhz ddr2, this makes a difference. I got a windows Vista rating of 3.5. The only cons for this laptop would be no bluetooth and webcam. This laptop is not for serious gamers. Windows Vista takes some getting use to, this is a first Vista laptop. I still prefer xp, lol.

The bad:
Short battery life - about two hours if running it so I don't get eye strain.
Slow. Slower than my four-year-old budget laptop that just died. May be Norton slowing it all down.

The good:
Cheap.
Seems solid.
Everything's working fine.