Internet comes up before you log in and stays up and on either system Internet Explorer or Google Chrome...runs nice and quick. Very few bumps in the road so far. This laptop for 2 months straight...even when pushed with several applications running. It never froze up once...so far anyway.
Windows 7 runs consistently well...but updates seem to be eating up too much space and that is a serious concern to me. I have used up 39 Gigs of space out of what is available...449 Gigs...and seriously I will get to the bottom of it, but...I think I have to turn off some type of logging programs, but updates seem to be hammering me the most and I am working on it.
The video cards respond very well to HD video and all videos play smoothly and all programs pop up without much lag time. For someone like me...who needs the speed and power and space and is a pretty advanced user...I am pleased with Windows 7 too on this system. I am someone who HAS TO run multiple programs and push it...and I love this laptop...making a mainframe and server tower type go GO MOBILE and have the same power on the run. LOVE IT>
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This is my second Toshiba Satellite in 3 years. I wanted the Harmon Kardon speakers like my first satellite and these are the same great Harmon speakers. I like the keyboard but wish it had a small mark on the keys to tell when I am on the right key. Wanted the lighted keyboard but cannot get it with the Harmon Kardon speakers. There is a small button above the touchpad to turn it on and off, very convenient as I always use an externa mouse. I may upgrade the memory but so far it is working well for my excel spreadsheets and net surfing. Shipping was superb and got it earlier than promised.Best Deals for Toshiba Satellite P755-S5396 15.6" Laptop (Intel Core i7-2670QM
I have had this computer for just over 1 year. I am graduate student and needed a computer that was fast, durable, and could handle multitasking. I knew I would be using this laptop for possibly long stretches of time daily and I needed a laptop that would hold up. It did all of that for the entire first year.... unfortunately 1 year and 1 day following my purchase (right after my 1 year warranty expired) the keys on the mouse pad broke. I have had a couple keys popping off, as well. The mouse and keyboard are pretty important in a laptop! For that reason alone I am really dissatisfied and am looking to purchase a new laptop. When I bought this computer I was hoping it would at least make it through my graduate program. I am out of luck and will be out of a chunk of change!Perhaps if you are not using the laptop as often as I am then it will hold up better, but after spending a good amount of money on a computer I expect it to last more than 365 days.
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I was able to pick this laptop up at a local Fry's here in the Bay Area for $550 which I think is about the right price point. I bought my wife a Core i5 Vaio at the same time (and about the same price point) and I have to admit there is a significant build quality difference. It's funny back in "the day" when Vaio was the top of the heap it used to come with an endless array of useless-ware, now Toshiba has taken the crown. Perhaps for an entry level user all the extra stuff is great (and most of it was required pre-Windows 7) but that is not the case these days. I suppose that is the only real drawback to the machine and if that is all I can find to gripe about that is pretty small.The good: In my price range (again ~$550 locally) it's a Core i7-2670QM, so you get the benefit of 4 cores (or what looks like 8 processors in taskmgr for the home user). Full size keyboard including a number pad, seems very reliable runs Ubuntu very well, big drive, nice crisp screen, and very good audio.. The keyboard is either a good or a bad, I am undecided I think I like the feel, I do Unix work in my real life so I am forever hitting the keyboard for terminal sessions.
Plenty of USB ports, button to disable the trackpad (sometimes a button with an indicator is the cats meow), wireless works fine (with Ubuntu I had major issues with my desktop-distro of choice Fedora 16, but I may try again). USB 3.0; HDMI out, integrated camera works fine, (though not as good as i5 Vaio at the same price point), 4GB RAM is fine for the home user.
The bad: My biggest gripe is that I continuously hit the trackpad with my left palm while using my right hand to reposition the mouse resulting in a ZOOM effect in 7. I use an external mouse usually and the button to disable the mousepad is great. Build quality is definitely lacking but I look at it this way, after having a stream of Apple MacBooks, iBooks, iMacs, MacBook Pro's this may feel somewhat flimsy but it is drop proof. I don't feel like it's going to break if I drop it (which has happened already). BUT; the quality is not going to blow you away, the hinge already had a crack when I pulled it out of the box but it's pretty minor, for 500 bucks not worth my drive back across the bay bridge since this thing is for in the house use only.
No bluetooth; sure I picked this thing up for 550 bucks, but still bluetooth is in the cheapest of phones these days it wouldn't have killed Toshiba to source a board with bluetooth. Battery life seems marginal for me but I'm mostly plugged in, and it's okay but nothing to write home about. Weird wireless issues with Fedora 16; weird display issues with OpenIndiana/Solaris 11, I realize most people won't use these but putting them here just in case a spider picks this up and someone searches for it.
Overall: For a few bucks (I got them here on Amazon) you can add 8GB RAM, and this thing runs like a champ. If you need to use *nix, VirtualBoxes, do some photo editing, or movie management for web uploading/sharing and don't want to pay an arm and a leg for an i7 look for this machine, like I said a weekend at Fry's it was going for 550, unbeatable at that price point, no complaints. For the home "PC" it replaces a circa 2006(?) Dell Core2 Vostro, so my bar was pretty high, that laptop was bullet proof and lasted for a very long time.(Reads not the 24" Intel iMac that had a drive die on it, nor the MacBook that had a motherboard go bad, nor the MacBook Pro that fell and had an LCD crack those were replaced by Sony's.)
But in all honestly if I had paid $700 I would probably have returned this box for another Sony VPCEG34FX Sony VAIO VPCEG34FX/B 14-Inch Laptop (Black), that is the other laptop I bought on the same day for about $530 locally. Even with the Core i7 for what I am doing there is little difference, and I think Netflix looks better on the Sony screen which is a bit higher dollar. I kept the Toshiba because, again for under 600 it's a great value, but if you are looking for a replacement laptop for yourself and you plan to travel with it and work on it daily then you may hold off until the price drops on this one.
As I would say when I lived back in Boston all of that and a buck twenty five will get you a ride on the T.
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