Review: Toshiba’s Satellite A300-02C

14 09 2008

Intel’s dominance of the notebook market the last few years has made reviewing a little less interesting. There are only so many ways to heap praise on Centrino. As we near the end of our wait for AMD’s long overdue response to Centrino, Intel has fired another salvo; Centrino 2. This Toshiba Satellite A300-02C is my first notebook using Intel’s latest bits and I am giddy like a school girl to test it out.

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Coming Soon: Toshiba Monetvina Action

13 09 2008

… with a little bit of extra lovin’ from AMD in the form of the RADEON 3650.

Yummy!


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Review: Toshiba Satellite A210-04F

29 03 2008

That’s Mr. Cheap to You

Once or twice per year, a friend or family member asks me to help them pick a notebook. Most of the folks I know just need a basic computer, and the reason they enlist me is that I love finding good deals on notebooks. This week I needed to find a good little Grandma computer. Having scanned the used sections of my favorite websites for deals I quickly determined that most people were stuck in 2005, asking way too much for notebooks that are much slower than current budget units.

So I hit the stores and found a pretty good assortment of dual core models in the $500-600 range from Acer, Dell, Compaq and Toshiba. The Toshiba Satellite A210-04F caught my eye:
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Notebook Critic’s Interview with Toshiba Canada’s Todd Smith

12 03 2008

Todd Smith, Director of Product Marketing at Toshiba of Canada Information Systems Group (ISG) took some time recently to answer questions from myself and NBR forum members on Toshiba’s notebook lineup.

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