Toshiba Satellite T215D-S1140RD 11.6-Inch Notebook PC - Gemini Red Review

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Personally, I love this product. The company had done a great job at getting my order to me in a timely fashion. In fact, it came sooner than I thought. The unit itself, works great, as it booted right up. I do like the fact that the computer is light, and that you can use a USB key to create a system restore disk. Moreover, I did end up buying more ram for it, while 2gb did not seem to be enough for now. I now have total of 4gb installed which in due time, I am planning on upgrading again. However, I did not want to max out the machine at this time, so maybe in a few months I will purchase additional ram, thus taking it up to 8gb. Nonetheless, the company is fast in term of shipping. I did not have any problems and would recommend buying this product from this company, as well as this model. In fact, my friend had been looking for one of these and could not find one in the stores. He did purchase his from the store, but his is black whereas mine is Red. I liked the red color since it was something new. Again I recommend this product, and getting it from this company. It arrived just days after I ordered it, which again was a good thing.

Excellent service, delivery time, and great product!! The only problem is that it does not come with blue-tooth built in. But, I have one that plugs into the USB, so it is not that big of deal. Moreover, I do have an external DVD drive, so the unit is lighter. More or less, I really do not use DVD drives that much, while I commonly use USB or external hard drives for most of my work. So if you are looking for a light weight unit that has a solid design I recommend this product. And again, delivery time was quick and painless from this company.

Highly recommend if you looking to replace your netbook, or want a small laptop with the capability to dock it when at home!

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I actually have the S1150 model.

A decent computer that is everything that I expected. I deducted one star for a sticky F8 key and the fact that Toshiba couldn't be bothered to set up the display colors properly. As delivered the display is badly washed out. Adjusting brightness, contrast and gamma makes a huge improvement. Adjustments are obscurely hidden in Catalyst Control Center/Advanced.

After about two weeks the hot keys stopped working. Pressing the FN key produces a drop down menu that allows settings to be changed. No hot keys means that I can't turn on the WiFi or the touchpad. Toshiba's tech support suggested doing a full recovery. The recovery discs that I made and which showed as being verified after burning did not work. Several files could not be read and the recovery program terminated. This left no operable operating system. It also apparently overwrote the system image stored on the hard disk.

Toshiba suggested factory recovery discs. The discs are free! Shipping and handling are $25!! I needed them what could I do? Toshiba would not sell them to me. My credit card is billed in the US Virgin Islands and could not be accepted. You have to live in one of the 50 "real" states and not a territory. The Toshiba web site list their coverage area as Canada, US, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Central and South America and parts of the Caribbean. The drop down menu when you try to order only accepts Canada, the 50 States and Argentina.

I eventually got my operating system working again from a Windows backup on a USB hard drive. The hot keys still don't work and I guess never will.

So 4 stars for the computer but if you need support from Toshiba you will wish you had bought something else. I do.