The new Toshiba Ultra Portable Satellite U505-S2940 13.3-Inch Laptop is the byword in the world of small lightweight laptops. This one comes with a great designs and cool features any one would wish for. The Toshiba Ultra Portable Satellite U505-S2940 13.3-Inch Laptop is priced at less than $1000. This means you get good features, style and performance for a reasonable price.
Toshiba U505-S2940
This Toshiba laptop looks more or less like the Satellite M505. It is built around the same compact and slim design. However, the U505-S2940 does tend to be rather bulky. It weighs 5.6 pounds, making it heavier than many other portable laptops in the market. This laptop is encased in a glossy chassis with a nice finish. You don’t have to worry about smudges and fingerprints on the chassis although the glossy finishing on the keyboard and mouse buttons are fingerprint magnets.
The screen on the Toshiba Ultra Portable Satellite U505-S2940 is glossy and has a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. Images are clear and so is text. For those who like to view videos on their laptops, this one comes with both VGA port and an HDMI video-audio output. It even has a mini laptop stand so that you can prop it up when you work on a desk.
The keyboard is quite responsive and easy to use. It also has features like LED backlighting and a light along the top of the trackpad which enables you to type in dim light. Additional features include a touch pad kill switch, navigation icons to help with zooming, scrolling etc and more.
This laptop has solid media performance. It is not the best of course but it is quite alright. It has built in speakers to give loud and clear sound and high definition screen to enhance the visual experience. All these combine to give you a home theater like feel.
The Toshiba Ultra Portable Satellite U505-S2940 has a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 processor with 4GB of 800MHz DDR2 memory. This means that you get speedy performance and there is no dearth of memory space either. If high end gaming is what you are looking for, this laptop is not the one for you. It uses main system memory so 3D games are likely to be slow and slack. However, you wont any trouble watching movies, listening to music or computing in general.
In all, this is one good mini laptop worth buying for daily general computing use and entertainment.
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