Review Toshiba E105-S1602 Laptop PC – Best price $799

Posted by supreme On August - 4 - 2009

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Blue Label laptops are the machines featured thin and lightweight designs, long battery life, backlit keyboards, and two-year warranties. The E105 chassis is draped in a silver–almost pewter–color with Toshiba’s “Fusion” finish, a pleasing, subtle pattern of pin stripes and curved lines on the lid, keyboard deck, screen bezel, and touchpad.

The keyboard is great with little of the flex that can be found on some keyboards, and the keys offer good travel along with backlighting, a tenet of Best Buy’s Blue Label program. The strip of illuminated, touch-sensitive media control buttons to the right of the keyboard, however, means that some of the keys are shorter than other 14-inch laptop. No wonder the volume can be mysteriously decreasing because of our pinky finger had come to rest on the volume-down button at the bottom of the vertical strip of media control keys.

The rest of the laptop features a glossy finish and the touchpad has a matte finish for a comfortable mousing experience. The laptop’s 14.1-inch screen features a 1,280×800 native resolution. The screen has a glossy finish but it doesn’t produce too many glare and reflections. The audio output from the two stereo speakers located on either side of the laptop’s front edge. Movies and music sounded muddled and tinny.

A Webcam and built-in microphone are placed above the screen for video chats. Below are two sturdy hinges that keep the screen firmly rooted in place. The Satellite E105 provides some connections, such as three USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port, and a multiformat media card reader. One of the E105′s USB ports doubles as an eSATA port for faster data transfer times to external hard drives with this interface. This Toshiba lacks FireWire and a ExpressCard slot, but it has an FM radio jack. Toshiba includes a small FM antenna in the box if we want to listen to the radio over the airwaves instead of streaming it over the Internet.

The retail-only Satellite E105-S1602 is based on Intel’s Centrino 2 platform. It features the 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo P7350 processor, a larger hard drive, replacing the 320GB unit with a 500GB drive. The E105 relies on Intel’s integrated chip that borrows resources from the main system memory. The Satellite E105-S1602 offers competitive performance for a mainstream laptop.

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