Toshiba NB505-N508BL 10.1-Inch Netbook (Blue)

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches ; 2.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B004G8QZPG
• Item model number: PLL50U-01R00C
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (377 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
  • #10 in Computers & Accessories > Netbooks
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 9, 2011

Product Description

Color: Blue

Amazon.com Product Description

Toshiba Mini NB505: Stylish, Highly Portable Netbook

Perfect for your everyday computing needs when you're on the go, the Toshiba Mini NB505-N508BL is one of the thinnest netbooks on the market--just 1.4 inches thin (without extended feet). And it weighs less than 3 pounds, so it's easy to carry in your backpack, purse, book bag, and more.

With over 8 hours of battery life, the Toshiba Mini NB505 offers
a full day of computing without a recharge (see larger image).

Thanks to its high-speed connectivity, the Intel Atom processor, and up to eight-hour battery life rating, this budget-friendly netbook puts you in touch with your favorite people, sites, social networks, and media almost everywhere you go--all without compromising your freedom of expression. And with the innovative rubberized EasyGrip finish, the NB505 netbook is easy to grab and go.

It features a brightly colorful 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen, a full-size keyboard for comfortable typing, and a larger touchpad with multi-touch control--enabling you to navigate documents, web pages, and images more easily. You'll also be able to store all your documents plus a large media library on the 250 GB hard drive, as well as download pictures from digital cameras via the SD memory card slot. Other features include an

The 250 GB hard disk drive is protected using an integrated 3D impact sensor which detects freefalls, shocks and vibrations. 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).

The NB505 offers a subtle look with shiny metallic reflections and engraved dot patterns, plus a rubber-textured cover (see larger image).

 

The NB505 features a comfortable full-size keyboard, plus a full-size touchpad with multi-touch capabilities (see larger image).

 

See a see larger image of the NB505's ports.

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 DDR2 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 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:
  • Toshiba eco Utility makes it easy to go green as you go mobile. Hit the Eco Button and you'll launch the Toshiba Eco Utility, which puts all sorts of easy-to-read information on your screen, and gives you the ability to adjust the power settings on your laptop. It also activates a light showing you're in the Eco Mode. The Toshiba Eco Utility lets you pick the optimal power plan for your situation. Choose High-Performance when you need every watt you can get, Power Saver for the least energy consumption, or Balanced as a perfect blend of the two.
    

• Up to 8 hours, 21 minutes of battery life (6-cell battery; 48 Wh)
  

• Dimensions & Weight: 10.3 x 7.48 x 1.4 inches (WxDxH); 2.9 pounds
  

Networking, Connectivity & Expansion 3 total USB ports VGA video output (analog, RGB) Microphone and headphone jacks Secure Digital (SD) memory card reader compatible with Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC), Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC), MultiMedia Card media Fast Ethernet (10/100)

Microsoft Windows 7 Home 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.

What's in the box

This package contains the Toshiba Mini NB505-N508BL netbook PC, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, and operating instructions.

It also comes with the following software:

Norton Internet Security 2011 (30-day trial); Microsoft Office Starter 2010; Google Toolbar and Google Chrome; Microsoft Windows Media Player 12; Microsoft Silverlight; Microsoft Live Essentials; Toshiba Online Backup (30-day trial)

This laptop is backed by a 1-year limited hardware warranty.

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.

Product Description

Leave your laptop at home. Tell your tablet or smartphone to step back. Because now you can enjoy a better Internet experience on the run, thanks to the stylish, award-winning Toshiba mini NB505 netbook-a value-rich companion PC offering a smart, comfortdriven design and exclusive conveniences for light, on-the-go computing. It turns heads with a stylish design in a spectrum of fashionable colors-brown, blue, lime green, orange and turquoise. And thanks to excellent high-speed connectivity, the talented Intel Atom processor, plus up to eight-hour battery life rating, this budget-friendly, best-in-class PC puts you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media most everywhere you go-without compromising your freedom of expression. It also gives you the reliability, compatibility and simplicity you want with Windows 7. Easy to use and small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it comes with an ample 10.1” diagonal display for surfing the web and more, and provides Toshiba “Smart Features” to enhance your mobile life-like a generous full-sized keyboard and TouchPad to ease input. Whether eyeing a first, second or even third PC, grab the netbook that fits both your pocketbook and your ever-expanding mobile life-Toshiba’s mini NB505.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

694 of 702 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good netbook with FULL keyboard, February 8, 2011

By 

goofy-foot - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba NB505-N508BN 10.1-Inch Netbook (Brown) (Personal Computers)

Great little netbook at an affordable price. Specs are pretty standard for a 2010/2011 netbook: 1G RAM, 250Gb HD, 3 USB ports, basic video camera, separate Mic & headphone jacks, sd card slot, vga output and a very useful 8h battery life.

There are a lot of netbooks like this on the market, but what really stands out for me on this one is the keyboard, FULL size main keys with ALL the cursor movement keys: DEDICATED up, down, right,left, PGUP, PGDN, HOME and END. I work a lot with excel spreadsheets and it is really uncomfortable to move pressing fn+end/up orf+end/down or ctrl+fn+home, ctrl+fn+end, etc. to move around. Also scrolling with pgup/pgdown while reading a long web page is a pain when you have to press also the fn key! With most netbooks you have to live with the fn key, not in this case, the NB505 keyboard is really practical and comfortable, almost like a full laptop or pc keyboard, even do the position of the keys is not standard, they let you do the work easier and faster.

I also really like the case feeling: like some very soft rubbery cover, it looks nice and grips nice!

Windows 7 Starter is really basic, but you can find programs, utilities and tips on the Internet to take care of the basic "missing features" like changing the background image, colors, sounds, re-size pictures, etc. I got rid of most of the Toshiba utilities and also Norton, and installed MS Security and my preferred freeware home edition utilities.

I would have liked to have stereo speakers, but the netbook only includes a mono speaker under the unit.

I have older Toshiba laptops with excellent experience, in fact they are still working (WIN98, 450Mb HD,64Mb RAM)! so I decided to take the risk and bought the netbook from Amazon. It arrived fast, and working OK! (no DOA).

Its been a month since I got the netbook and I am still happy, but I think I will upgrade the memory to 2Gb, to make it snappier, I find Win7 heavier than Win XP for 1 gb of RAM (but that is just my feeling...).

All in all, I WOULD recommend it to my friends!

*** UPDATE **** July 2011 ****
I did upgrade the memory to 2Gb on February'11 and it works faster, but, if you plan to do it, just be aware of THIS: (info from the Toshiba support web site)

"NOTE: Two types of DDR memory are used in the Toshiba NB500 and NB505 netbook series. In order to upgrade, you WILL NEED to determine the current memory speed of your Netbook before you buy and replace it:
1) Locate the gray part number label on bottom of machine.
2) If there is a "D3" in the UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER of the label, then DDR3 memory is installed, upgrade using the following: "PA3856U-1M2G Toshiba DDR3-1066MHz, 2GB Memory" or compatible.
3) All other units, assembled with DDR2 memory, upgrade using the following module: "PA3669U-1M2G, Toshiba DDR2-800MHz, 2GB memory Module" or compatible (cheaper).
Alternate Identification Method (Serial Number):
1) PLL50U-01900C(5B294965K or greater, or a serial number starting with 6B ,7B , 8B) use DDR3.
2) PLL50U-01900C(5B294964K or less, or a serial number starting with 4B,3B , 2B ,1B, ZA, YA, or XA)- use DDR2."

Mine used DDR2...

187 of 191 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Netbook - Excellent Second Computer, February 7, 2011

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E (NY NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba NB505-N508BL 10.1-Inch Netbook (Blue) (Personal Computers)

I bought this computer a few weeks ago and so far my experience has been very positive. This netbook is solidly constructed and is ready to use out of the box. The keyboard isn't difficult to use and the trackpad is OK - a little oversensitive for my taste. Unlike many other systems it doesn't come with a lot of bloatware - trial versions of programs you don't want anyway. There is some, but almost all for arguably useful programs. The included Toshiba software seems well-designed even though I personally have no use for it.

As for speed, the computer is powerful enough for a netbook, and will run net-based and home office applications smoothly. Of course, it falls short for more intense use like video editing, image processing or games - but then again, that's not what this computer is for. However, the Atom processor in this unit is on its way out, and for about $100 more you can get a netbook that is considerably faster. Nevertheless, or a solid, cheap, ultraportable computer, this is a good pick.

Pros:
* good keyboard
* good battery life
* nice, slim design
* little bloatware, useful software included
* solid build quality, looks like it will last

Cons:
* underwhelming sound (single speaker on the bottom)
* slow CPU

287 of 303 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars little netbook,,are yu cute or what?!!, February 3, 2011

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vdubbgirl69 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba NB505-N508BN 10.1-Inch Netbook (Brown) (Personal Computers)

I read a lot of the reviews before i bought this little netbook, glad i ignored most of them. This is a great little gizmo, It's not for gamers. It's not for techies. But it's perfect for surfin the web, email, facebook and day to day stuff or travel to keep in touch. It's small (the keyboard takes a little practise) and light weight. it's more than fast enough. People who expect this to run and do all the things a desktop or full size/function laptop do are being silly. It's not what this is for. I like it a lot.

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