Toshiba Mini NB305-N440BN 10.1-Inch Java Brown Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life)

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 10.4 x 1.3 inches ; 2.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B003LPUU4M
• Item model number: PLL3AU-02U016
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #378 in Computer & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computer & Accessories)

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  Computer & Accessories > Netbooks

• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 20, 2010

Product Description

Color: Slver/Brown

Amazon.com Product Description

Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with the affordable, super-compact Toshiba Mini NB305-N440BN, which weighs less than 3 pounds, is small enough to throw in a purse or bag, and has a brightly colorful 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen. Offering a durable textured finish and cover in Java Brown, it features a full-size keyboard for comfortable typing and a larger touchpad with Multi-Touch Control, which enables you to navigate documents, web pages and images more easily.

With up to 8.75 hours of battery life, the Toshiba Mini NB305 offers a full day of computing without a recharge (see larger image).

Brilliantly styled in Java Brown (see larger image).

The NB305 features a comfortable full-size keyboard, plus a full-size touchpad with multi-touch capabilities (see larger image).

Combining the power of the latest Intel Atom N455 processor and NM10 Express chipset with a six-cell battery for up to 8.75 hours of battery power, you'll be able to go through an entire day of school, work or errands without worrying about a recharge. The battery pack is neatly hidden under the casing of the netbook to preserve its sleek, ergonomic design.

The 250 GB hard disk drive is protected using an integrated 3D impact sensor which detects freefalls, shocks and vibrations. The Toshiba Mini also features a USB Sleep-and-Charge port, which allows external USB devices such as mobile phones and personal media players to charge from the netbook even when it is turned off. Other features include fast DDR3 RAM, an integrated webcam, and a mono speaker.

This Toshiba Mini comes pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows 7 Starter operating system (32-bit version).

Key Features

• 10.1-inch LED backlit widescreen display (1024 x 600-pixel resolution) provides richer colors and clearer definition--perfect for browsing the Internet.
  

• 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 processor (512 KB L2 cache, 667 MHz FSB) combines performance and energy efficiency to explore the Internet and stay connected while mobile.
  

• 250 GB SATA hard drive (5400 RPM)
  

• 1 GB of installed DDR3 RAM (667 MHz; expandable to 2 GB)
  

• Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 video processor with up to 250 MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory.
  

• Wireless Connectivity
  • With its integrated Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking capabilities, this laptop provides up to five times the performance and twice the wireless range using 802.11n-compatible routers as you would with 802.11g networks. It's also backward compatible with 802.11b/g networks (commonly found at Wi-Fi hotspots and in older home routers.
    

• Included Toshiba Software:
  • Toshiba Media Controller offers simplified media sharing. Using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, it lets you share videos, music and pictures from the media library on your laptop with compatible devices in your home entertainment network, or with other compatible laptops and devices, like an Xbox 360 game console. And you can do it all without moving equipment, burning discs or fumbling with cables.
  • Toshiba Bulletin Board is an easy-to-use organizational and productivity app that lets you build your own personalized space on your desktop. With Toshiba Bulletin Board, you can quickly and easily manage your to-do lists and calendars, plus create your own custom work area by pinning your favorite photos, documents, links and more.
  • Toshiba ReelTime helps you cut down the time it takes to search for files. The easy-to-use app takes traditional text-based file structures one step further to help you find what you're looking for more quickly. Accessible from your taskbar, it shows you a visual timeline of your recently accessed files--using graphical thumbnails--so you can easily identify and get to your files faster.
    

• Included Toshiba Utilities:
  • USB Sleep and Charge offers a great way to keep your portable electronics powered up without requiring your laptop to be on. With this laptop's Sleep and Charge USB port, you'll be able to charge your smart phone, MP3 player, and other portable electronics--all without having to keep your laptop awake.
  • Hard Drive Impact Sensor takes the worry out of taking your most important files and multimedia on the go. Able to detect sudden movement along three different dimensions, the impact sensor (a complex system of hardware and software) helps safeguard your data by "parking" the hard drive heads in the event of a drop or sudden movement. And it works faster than you can blink to help protect your laptop and all-important data.
    

• Up to 8.3 hours of battery life (6-cell battery; 48 Wh)
  

• Dimensions & Weight: 10.47 x 7.57 x 1.43 inches (WxDxH); 2.6 pounds
  

Networking, Connectivity & Expansion 3 total USB ports with left-side port offering Sleep and Charge capabilities. VGA video output (analog, RGB) Microphone and headphone jacks Secure Digital (SD) memory card reader compatible with Secure Digital High Capacity, Multi Media Card media Fast Ethernet (10/100) What's in the box This package contains the Toshiba Mini NB305-N410BN notebook PC, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, and operating instructions. It also comes with the following software: Norton Internet Security 2010 (30-day trial); Microsoft Works 9; Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Edition (60-day trial); Google Toolbar; Toshiba PC Health Monitor; Toshiba Online Backup (30-day trial) This laptop is backed by a 1-year limited hardware warranty.

Microsoft Windows 7 Starter Microsoft Windows 7 Starter makes small notebook PCs easier to use because it puts less between you and what you want to do--less waiting, less clicking, less hassle connecting to networks. Windows 7 Starter combines the latest in reliability and responsiveness with the familiarity and compatibility of Windows. Some features include: Features like Jump Lists, Pin, Snap, and Windows Search all make using a small notebook PC simple and easy Joining home networks with other PCs running Windows 7 is easy and simple Connecting to printers and devices is easier than ever Supports the latest hardware and software Internet Explorer 8 improves the safety of web browsing

Environmental Specifications

• Energy Star 5.0 certified
• Gold EPEAT designation for meeting standards to help reduce its environmental impact.
• RoHS compliant effectively reducing the environmental impact by restricting the use of lead, mercury and certain other hazardous substances

Learn more about Toshiba's environmental commitment.

Learn More

25th Anniversary of Toshiba Laptops

This year, Toshiba celebrates its 25th anniversary of innovations and quality in the notebook PC business. Beginning with the launch of the Toshiba T1100, the world's first clamshell-type, fully functional laptop PC, Toshiba has led the with such innovations as the first laptop with a color monitor in 1991 and a laptop with integrated CD-ROM drive in 1995 (followed by the addition of a DVD drive in 1998). And in 2009, Toshiba unveiled the world's first ultraportable laptop with 512GB solid state drive.

Today, Toshiba continues to be a leader in eco-friendly manufacturing, with virtually all of its consumer laptops earning EPEAT Gold status for meeting standards that help reduce overall environmental impact.

Product Description

Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with our award-winning, super-compact NB305 netbook - a companion PC offering a smart, comfort-driven design and exclusive convenience features for light, on-the-go-computing. Thanks to excellent high-speed connectivity, the renowned Intel Atom processor, and up to an eight-hour battery life rating, this innovative best-in-class netbook lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it comes with a 10.1-Inch diagonal display, and provides smart features to enhance your mobile life - like a generous full-sized, raised tile keyboard and touchpad to ease input, USB Sleep and Charge, plus a durable textured finish and eco-inspired design. So it picks up where smart phones leave off, and makes many of today’s netbooks run a distant second.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

72 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For those with reasonable needs, this netbook is tops., July 13, 2010

By	C. Lee (Chicagoland) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba Mini NB305-N440RD 10.1-Inch Ruby Red Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life) (Personal Computers)

Let's get real here. Netbooks ARE NOT replacements for those of you folks who should be shopping for a NOTEBOOK. Having owned at least 4 Toshiba notebooks in the past and currently on my first Sony notebook, I'd expect those machines to do the heavy lifting... serious Photoshopping, DV editing, CAD modelling, rendering, moderate gaming, etc. It'd be irresponsible to ding netbooks on how inadequate they are at these tasks. With this in mind, the Toshiba NB305-N440 fills a very helpful role for those of you who already have a full-fledged notebook or desktop chugging away in the background.

The Toshiba netbook's 3lb weight and size makes it incredibly portable, handleable, and stowable. Grab it single-handedly at the palmrest, grab it at the hinges, or scoop it up from underneath; it's construction feels sturdy and solid where you don't have to worry about something falling off from this kind of abuse. For you existing notebook users, ever feel like you're devoting 80% of your backpack to carrying around that bohemoth... or how about trying to use a 15" screen on the dining tray in the cattle-section of an economy flight? ESPECIALLY when you're just using it to compose a few paragraphs for a meeting, class, or email rant? The NB305 netbook remedies this exactly. The 10.1" screen can be comfortably angled away from you even when the passenger in front decides to stay reclined throughout the flight. Size and weight. Advantage? Netbook.

Unlike other netbooks, Toshiba's NB305 has a design that accomodates a 6-cell battery as standard. No outrageous goofy protrusion as in HP and Sony's extra-cost offering. With the lid closed, the whole package remains as svelte and stowable as lesser competitors with their 3-cell designs. And BECAUSE the Toshiba NB305 has a 6-cell Li-Ion as standard, real-world usage equates to a 5-7 hour run-time with the brightness set at max while pounding away at tasks that make the hard drive thrash around. Coming from a decade of using 2-hour notebooks, its amazing to be away from an AC outlet for that long.

How about useability for a 1.66ghz machine? With the Microsoft-imposed configuration of 1gig RAM, I had my doubts about Windows 7 Starter edition. It turns out the NB305-N440 boots into the desktop in a reasonable amount of time and simple websurfing, emailing chores are handled without issue. Sites that make use of Flash like Hulu, Youtube, and a myriad of other flash-navigation stuff is very surfable on this netbook. The VGA webcam offers adequate resolution and has a wide enough capture angle to make this netbook suitable for video Skyping. Where it falls short is the speaker volume. This is pandemic of all netbooks. When in the boundaries of your personal space, the dinky speakers are barely audible enough for a conversation in all but the emptiest of coffee shops. Those of you hoping to give one of these to grandma as a dedicated Skype device should hope grandma doesn't mind wearing headphones. No issues with the netbook's mic as the other party will hear you fine. Did this netbook slow down? Eventually. By the time I had Skype fired up, two tabs in IE8 loaded on sizeable pages and a THIRD tab buffering a show on Hulu, the 1gig ram had to swap stuff into the hard drive. Bumping up to 2gigs DDR3 RAM would help, but you'll have to yank out the existing one.

At first unboxing, the Toshiba NB305-N440's brightness is set midway; passable, but not something I'd want to scowl at for more than an hour. Crank up the brightness settings and the Toshiba's efficient LED backlit screen shows itself to be very crisp, very readable, quite bright. The next several hours was spent installing personal stuff, Win7 updates (224megs), and removing the thankfully small amount of Toshiba bloatware. All that time the bright screen was legible and comfy on the eyes. Even after Windows Update did everything it wanted, the netbook still booted up in the same 40-ish second span. That's kinda impressive considering they're still using a non-SSD traditional hard drive. Part of this can be attributed to the reduced amount of OS baggage in Windows 7 Starter edition. On that note, there was hardly anything I missed in this OS-lite. Can't change the wallpaper? No big deal. The only plausible nit here is that Win7 Starter lacks multiple user accounts... so those hoping to lock things down and hand it to their tots might have to upgrade beyond "Starter Edition".

The heat vent on the left side emitted therms about the equivalent of holding your hand up near a fluorescent desklamp. It's there, but in no way bothersome.

While Senor Jobs positions his iPad to be a "consumption" device, there are those of us who wish to stay productive and the reason for a netbook's existence is to sport that keyboard. The Toshiba NB305 netbooks don't disappoint here. Touch-typists will appreciate chicklet keys that feel as nicely spaced as all the other keyboards they've worked on. Toshiba saved space by narrowing the traditionally long caps-lock, shift, and enter keys. The touchpad is nice too... full-size just like most big-boy notebooks. Possibly the biggest of ANY netbook. Dedicated left and right buttons are in the appropriate expected spot.

The last and most prominent nit is that the NB305 lacks built-in Bluetooth. Bluetooth would allow the Toshiba netbook to simultaneously control a mouse, feed a wireless headset, and transfer files between your smartphone. Being internal, it wouldn't eat up a USB slot. Alas, neither the preconfigured units or ToshibaDirect offers internal Bluetooth in their netbooks. (Oddly, the Bluetooth SOFTWARE stack is already installed) The only recourse is their low-profile USB Bluetooth 2.1 dongle. Speaking of USB, one of the three slots on this netbook offers power even when the machine is off. This means only having to carry a USB charge cable for your phone instead of a larger dedicated wallwart when travelling lite.

This leaves the last de rigueur issue, High Definition. It's seems the rage to pair up HD with netbooks nowadays. I'm one of the biggest HD snobs out there, but after using a netbook for several hours, forcing HD into a netbook form factor is just pointless... moreso when it only serves to kill the battery life with its high CPU/GPU requirement and the high-capacity battery requirement itself. Being able to stay productive for a 6-hour stretch on a Toshiba netbook trumps the notion of hunching over a 10" screen squinting at a "high definition" file for two hours. If I'm missing a show, I'm willing to "settle" for a 480P stream from Hulu on a Toshiba NB305-N440 rather than give up two thirds the amount of battery life in some of these HD netbooks. Need a portable high-definition playback machine? Get a full-fledged notebook; full-HD widescreen, larger/louder speakers, blu-ray drive. I suggest this from first-hand experience.

Need to be productive while staying highly mobile? This Toshiba NB305-N440 is appropriate for THAT task. I can't really ding it for lack of internal Bluetooth now that Toshiba offers their low-profile dongle. Yes it takes up a precious USB port, but it'll make up for it by its versatility in handling a (Bluetooth) mouse, headset, smartphone, pen tablet, etc. The streamlined 6-cell battery and other forward-thinking features like LED backlight, USB charging, diminuitive AC adapter, and draft-N WiFi makes this a well-focused netbook. In its pricepoint, the NB305-N440 netbook offers a great degree of functionality out-of-the-box, exudes a good amount of sturdiness, comes with a 3 year warranty, and is born from a company that's been into mobile computing for nearly two decades now.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst customer service ever. EVER. Do not buy this netbook., July 1, 2010

By	Sometime Consumer - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba Mini NB305-N440BN 10.1-Inch Java Brown Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life) (Personal Computers)

Until two hours ago, Toshiba's website said this netbook was upgradeable to 2GB memory. I bought the netbook and an upgrade memory module (exactly fitting their specs). The machine would not work with that memory.

Ok. These things happen.

Amazon very generously sent me a new memory module. This also didn't work.

I spent hours on the phone, with Toshiba's "technical" support. Serial liars all. Their clownish obfuscation was beyond all belief. I wish I had a transcript, because I can't recreate the stream of circular logic, technical ignorance, scripted flowery phrases, and dropped calls. (I also spoke with the wonderful folks at Crucial. They make the module and spent a lot of time with me trying to diagnose the problem.)

While Toshiba was busy denying there WAS a problem I watched -- on the fly -- Toshiba's website change: it no longer linked to recommended memory upgrade modules. But no one, from Level 1 to Level 2 (Level 3 was mysteriously sequestered and unavailable for direct contact) to Customer Support back to Level 1 could ever for a moment admit there was a problem other than the unlikely coincidence that BOTH modules sent to me were flawed.

And (I had owned the machine for 1 day!) if I wanted them to look at the netbook I had to ship and insure it to Kentucky, at my expense, for their leisurely look. They wouldn't cover me under warranty taking it locally into a Toshiba-authorized repair shop.

The long story short, when I saw their own web site refresh and change, I saw Toshiba's new official story: they wouldn't support a memory upgrade. I still have a downloaded spec PDF, which certainly does. But they've changed their tune online.

Amazon has been terrific throughout this mess. But Toshiba: what an awful corporate culture. What an awful warranty. What a lineup of people picking up the phone.

A company's product is no better than their customer service. I rank Toshiba as the worst.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars memory upgrade works - just have to get the correct memory, August 1, 2010

By	Melvey "Rick F" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba Mini NB255-N245 10.1-Inch Netbook (Personal Computers)

Some folks here have posted that the memory upgrade to 2 gb doesn't work. Toshiba originally had the wrong memory upgrade listed on their site, and folks orddered it & it didn't work. I can see how it was frustrating since it took a while for the support forum to acknowledge that. If you go to Toshiba support forums now, they have listed there the correct memory number for an upgrade to 2 gb ! Great little netbook !
Update: Memory now available is Kingston KTT1066D3S/2G

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