Toshiba Satellite P305D-S8828 17-inch Laptop (2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-70 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Fusion

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.8 x 11.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001B92UBQ
• Item model number: P305D-S8828
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 24, 2008

Product Description

The expert in mobile technology, Toshiba builds laptops to help you think, collaborate and learn ¿ in rockstar style. Raise the lid and rock the room: the new Satellite P305D-s8828 laptop is set off with a brilliant high-gloss Fusion Finish. With a variety of advanced A/V features¿like Harman Kardon stereo speakers, Dolby Sound Room and an S/P DIF port, the Toshiba Satellite P305D-s8828 laptops has more to entertain you. With USB Sleep-and-Charge support, you can use your Toshiba laptop to power-up your favorite portable electronic devices, even when the machine is off. The built-in Webcam and Toshiba Face Recognition on your Satellite P305D-s8828 laptop helps you have more fun staying in touch. Enjoy high-speed transfers and no-hassle storage with the eSATA port. Great for those with lots of files and multimedia, an eSATA port offers 5X the performance of a standard USB port when using an external hard drive. The Toshiba P305D-s8828 ships with Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit version), a 2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-70, 1 MB L2, AMD M780V chipset, configured with 3072 MB PC6400 DDR2 SDRAM (both slots may be occupied, maximum capacity 4096 MB), 200 GB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive, DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) drive supporting 11 formats, 17.1" diagonal widescreen TruBrite display at 1440 x 900 native resolution (WXGA+), ATI RadeonTM 3100 Graphics with 256MB-1407MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory, webcam and microphone built into LCD bezel, and Atheros 802.11b/g wireless-LAN. Dimensions: 15.8¿ x 11.4¿ x 1.38¿ /1.50¿ without feet, weight: Starting at 7.4 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Attractive and fast laptop, July 24, 2008

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C. Krishnek (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba Satellite P305D-S8828 17-inch Laptop (2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-70 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Fusion (Personal Computers)

I bought the Toshiba P305D-S8828 from Circuit City as a replacement for my two-year-old desktop. I'm amazed at how fast this laptop is. I have many gigabytes worth of photos and artwork, and they copied onto the Toshiba in just minutes.

The display is big, bright, and crisp. I love how the keyboard includes and full keypad. It's turned out to be very handy. I was a little skeptical at first about the set of touch controls above the keyboard. They turned out to be convenient and easy to use. The volume range is wide, which is nice to see in a Laptop.

The only Con I can think of is that it comes with Vista, but everything does nowadays. It's loaded with "Security Features" which really only make downloading and using programs more difficult.

Overall, I totally recommend this product to anyone looking for a reliable, medium performance laptop.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great price, August 13, 2008

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Waleed Mohammed (Trinidad, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba Satellite P305D-S8828 17-inch Laptop (2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-70 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Fusion (Personal Computers)

The price is very good for these specs. The finish on the laptop makes it look classy and glossy. The laptop is a bit heavy but that's because of the 17" screen which shows very good. There's no DVI out, but a RGB output, which is good for this price range. The integrated video is capable but not for a serious gamer. It handles movies and xvid decoding quite well.
The laptop is fast and comes with quite a lot of functional software (as well as trial software that I wish they didn't put on). The keyboard layout is nice.
Overall this laptop is powerful and very professional looking. It looks and performs like a much more expensive machine !

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for video and audio conferencing, June 25, 2008

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Romina Wilcox "Author of Cold Eyes" (Silicon Valley Author) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba Satellite P305D-S8828 17-inch Laptop (2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-70 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Fusion (Personal Computers)

One best thing I liked about this Toshiba was that the warranty is available anywhere in the country. I sent this as a gift for my niece overseas. It performs well for what is intended: To chat online. It has a built-in microphone and webcam and we are able to swap still pictures while chatting on line. So far, we have not encountered any difficulties. It does perform smoothly. The sound system is not bad either. It has harman/kardon® stereo speakers, Headphone jack (stereo), Microphone jack (mono). It has nice 17" screen, Vista Home Premium, 2.0 GHz processor speed, touch multimedia button. It has a dual-core processor(AMD Turion), 200G HD, 3072 memory, Atheros wireless-Lan. We also use it a lot to make invitation and other greeting cards. Its sufficient enough to handle lots of graphics.

It's a little fat and heavy, but its fusion finish made up for it. Indeed, it looks very stylish. My niece and I like it and use it a lot. No regret in buying it. Cold Eyes