Toshiba Satellite A205-S5879 15.4-inch Laptop (1.86 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 Processor, 3GB RAM, 200GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) Onyx Blue

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.3 x 10.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001B6IRA2
• Item model number: A205-S5879
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 8, 2008

Product Description

Optimized for everyday use, the affordable Satellite A205-s5879, with its 15.4-inch diagonal widescreen TruBrite display, is loaded with a PC wishlist of features. Intel's latest mobile technology offers efficient use of power and speed for multitasking and multimedia. Designed for looks and convenience, the Satellite A205-s5879 offers an attractive Onyx Blue Metallic case, built-in stereo speakers, CD/DVD control buttons, and convenient spacing of its four USB ports to accommodate larger peripherals. The built-in webcam and microphone will help you stay in touch with friends, family and co-workers. You can even collaborate with colleagues, and add voice and video to online chatting. With these built-in features it¿s almost like being there. And you¿ll never have to fuss with extra hardware! Enjoy the incredible sights and sounds of DVD entertainment with the integrated DVD SuperMulti optical drive with LabelFlash technology, giving you the ability to handle most of today¿s popular CD and DVD formats, load programs, and share work and multimedia files. You¿ll be glad you have this multi-talented performer onboard. The Toshiba A205-s5879 ships with Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit version), a 1.86GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor T2390 1 MB L2, 533MHz FSB, Mobile Intel GM965 Express Chipset, configured with 3072 MB PC5300 DDR2 SDRAM (both slots may be occupied, maximum capacity 2048 MB), 200 GB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive, DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) drive supporting 11 formats, 15.4" diagonal widescreen TruBrite display at 1280 x 800 native resolution (WXGA), integrated webcam and microphone, Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with 8 MB - 256 MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory, and Atheros 802.11b/g wireless LAN. Dimensions: 14.3¿ x 10.6¿ x 1.32¿ /1.55¿ weight: Starting at 6.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good purchase, October 27, 2008

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Puff (Trinidad) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba Satellite A205-S5879 15.4-inch Laptop (1.86 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 Processor, 3GB RAM, 200GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) Onyx Blue (Personal Computers)

As always a solid toshiba product. Ignore what the other guy says, you can run XP on this machine, but you will lose some of the features, as with any other Vista based machine.

Value for money, this is a great buy..

4.0 out of 5 stars very good computer, November 7, 2008

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Rebeca Delgado - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba Satellite A205-S5879 15.4-inch Laptop (1.86 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 Processor, 3GB RAM, 200GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) Onyx Blue (Personal Computers)

This is a great computer, for a great price, if you don't mind spend 15 minutes of you time unistalling all the toshiba advertising.

Also one of the dvd drivers, stop working, but that was easily fix by goin to toshiba.com and download the driver, or simply run it from the CD of recovery.

I don't have any problems whit vista, you just have to download all the actualizations, and whit time you get used to.

Besides that, is a great computer, and toshiba has a great custumer services support in almost every country.

14 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars avoid toshiba - deserves no stars, September 1, 2008

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oldpcguy (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba Satellite A205-S5879 15.4-inch Laptop (1.86 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 Processor, 3GB RAM, 200GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) Onyx Blue (Personal Computers)

deceptive advertising/specifications

It was my misfortune to buy one of these lemons. Toshiba does not mention in their ads or specs that it is
built to only run vista. Installing any other operating system will void the warranty. They also don't mention that there is no actual vista disk included, only rescue disks to reinstall vista and the other crapware preinstalled on the hard drive. Over the course of more than two hours, their customer disservice department provided only excuses, evasions an misdirection. At one point, rather than provide information, they transferred my call microsoft. I will never again buy any Toshiba product - Toshiba cannot be trusted.