Toshiba Satellite A500-13W Test

The Toshiba Satellite reached a very high work rate and has a large hard drive. As the laptop battery has to offer with the 16-inch screen too, shows the COMPUTER BILD-Test.

Features of Toshiba Satellite A500

• 16-inch HD Toshiba TruBrite display with 1366 x 768 pixel resolution
  
• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
  
• Up to 8GB DDR2 RAM
  
• Up to 500GB HDD or 64GB SSD
  
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD GPU with up to 1GB DDR3 VRAM
  
• WLAN, Bluetooth 2.1
  
• 5-in-1 Bridge Media for media card slot
  
• Three pa3450u 1brs USB port and an additional combo eSATA / USB
  
• TV-tuner for analog and digital DVB-T programming
  
• Harman Kardon speakers
  
• HDMI ports with REGZA liNK technology
  
• DVD Super Multi drive
  
• Wide format HD webcam
  
• Multi-touch trackpad
  
• Toshiba laptop Battery life up to 3.5 hours
  
• Windows Vista

Speed :

Was when working with Office programs, the Toshiba Satellite A500-13W PA3356U-3BRS fast. Also programs for image, video and music editing were very quick. The graphics processor (ATI Mobility Radeon HD4650 with 1,024 megabytes of storage) calculated an average of 48 frames per second with the graphics tests. Games with complex 3D effects brought the notebook without annoying stuttering on the Toshiba PA3399U-2BRS screen.

Data

The built-in hard drive 466 gigabytes of data and programs to fit PA3395U-1BRS - a welcome value. The DVD burner can read all popular CD and DVD types and describe. However, the quality of home-burned CDs is not convincing.

Operating volume, and battery power

In normal operation, the Toshiba notebook has worked quietly PA3451U-1BRS (0.9 Sone). The processor is fully utilized, it is significantly louder (1.5 Sone). The endurance of the battery is very modest: When working with Office programs, he lasted only 99 minutes by Toshiba PA3506U-1BRS, for DVD playback was already after 81 minutes layer in the shaft.

Facilities

For wireless connections to other computers on the Internet or a wireless card with the fast Toshiba PA3479U-1BRS n standard is built. Weakness was the Toshiba Satellite with the robustness tests: After the endurance test set from the screen hinge and Internet camera PA3420U-1BRS . When liquid test keyboard and Brenner were broken.

Conclusion: Toshiba Satellite A500-13W

The notebook impresses with its extremely fast pace, its PA3450U-1BRS gaming capability. It is equipped with a large enough hard drive. Weakness was the Toshiba laptop in the robustness tests and in Toshiba PA3421U-1BRS battery life.