Toshiba Satellite L455-S5975 – C 900 / 2.2 GHz – RAM 2 GB – HDD 250 GB – DVD?RW (?R DL) / DVD-RAM – GMA 4500M – WLAN : 802.11b/g – Windows 7 Home Premium – 15.6″ Widescreen TFT 1366 x 768 ( WXGA ) TruBrite – matte silver
Toshiba Satellite L455-S5975 - C 900 / 2.2 GHz - RAM 2 GB - HDD 250 GB - DVD?RW (?R DL) / DVD-RAM - GMA 4500M - WLAN : 802.11b/g - Windows 7 Home Premium - 15.6" Widescreen TFT 1366 x 768 ( WXGA ) TruBrite - matte silver
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 List Price: $599.99 Sale Price: $459.99 Availability: unspecified 
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Product Description
Quality and value! The Satellite L450 brings the right balance for people who need a laptop that's ideal for completing everyday tasks, but also want added multimedia features - at home and on the move. The DVD SuperMulti drive allows you to watch DVD movies and create your own CDs and DVDs.
Details
- Intel® Celeron® processor 900, 2GB DDR2 memory, 250GB Serial ATA hard drive
- 15.6" TruBrite TFT-LCD widescreen display,Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M
- Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support, Multiformat media reader
- Realtek wireless LAN (802.11b/g), 10/100 Ethernet LAN
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Editio, Good battery life Of up to 2 hours and 40 minutes
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I purchased this to be used like a netbook, except bigger and with all the benefits of a laptop. For $320 (Best Buy) you can’t go wrong. For a light mobile laptop that is as quick as you need it to be and offers all the features a netbook doesn’t, this is a perfect alternative. This will make a perfect laptop for a teen, college student or the person on the run. This isn’t a Toshiba high end laptop, but for surfing the Internet, using Office and connecting it to my cable line and recording TV, this thing handles it all with no problems and does it fairly quickly. The graphics and sound quality is pretty good, and the 15″ screen is perfect for watching TV. I am impressed and I am glad I came upon this opportunity instead of going with a netbook for just a bit more. This is a nice laptop and a steal for what I paid, even for the price offered on Amazon, but I recommend checking around (Best Buy on-line). You can’t go wrong, Toshiba makes great products and from what I have seen in the week of using this, this is one of them.
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I bought this computer three weeks ago from Best Buy for 349. I can’t believe the value for the price. I love windows 7 — it is much quicker than vista and they have added some very nice features. All the MS Office programs load quick as well as any other program I have used. It comes preloaded with Norton Internet Security. I really hate it when they load programs to get you hooked for 30 days free and then remind you every hour that it is time to buy, however, Norton is a very good fit for this computer and it doesn’t seem to eat up any processing speed running in the background. I’m going to wait another week then part with some hard earned money for the annual subscription. The only negative with this computer is that the cooling fan cycles on and off which can be annoying if you are working in a quiet area. It does it job, though and keeps the computer cool. Bottom line: Unless you are a power hungry gamer, you can’t go wrong with this computer.
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Great Deal!! I bought this computer mainly for internet use and light computing, watch some movies from netflix. It is totally great for price. I highly recommend this computer if you are looking just for internet use. Highly satisfied. Whole family uses it.
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I have a little Toshiba that is 12 years old, so thought I would love another Toshiba. Perhaps I would, but not THIS laptop. I wanted something smaller, so that part is my bad. I wanted something lighter, and it isn’t as light as I thought. It does have a DVD so that is good.
The pad is hard to use, too sensitive, and you can’t “tone it down” – the cursor jumps all over the page to places unknown and I’m not even using it! I thought attaching the mouse would be “the answer” even though that sort of defeats the purpose of having a laptop. The mouse attaches at the side, so the mouse cord is always in the way. Irritating. And when you type, getting close to the pad makes the cursor jump out of where you are typing, so you have to go find it and kidnap it back to your app.
Window’s 7 isn’t near as wonderful as advertised. Windows 95 was a whole lot better, so why to they keep mucking it up?
All in all, I like the 12 year old one better even if it is heavier – at least it is smaller. I hate this new one.
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Well purchased a Toshiba Satellite for my son for Christmas and have disappointed since day one. Plugged it up and we get scrambled LCD screen with black blobs all over the place. I call Toshiba for advice and the first thing they say is this is covered under warranty. Seems they will not repair any screen related issues with there laptops. They said it was caused by abuse. I find this hard to believe since it was this way right out of the box and used for less than 3 days. No were in the warranty book does it say this is not covered. I ask for them to point this out to me and no one would answer my question. The kicker is they want $425 to repair a $400 computer. I will be returning this laptop and will avoid Toshiba like the black plague. I would suggest anyone considering a Toshiba call the warranty department first and ask them what does there warranty cover. Don’t make the mistake I made.
Reggie
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My grandparent’s less-than two year old Compaq decided to give out very prematurely. It had similar issues to what Xbox 360′s are having, if your curious. It’s semi-fixed now, but that’s beside the point
Anyway, I found one of these at Best Buy for $320 so I figured I’d give it a shot. I was a little disappointed when I realized it lacked duel core, but honestly the new Celerons are miles ahead of the earlier models.
Now, I can’t vouch for what was originally loaded seeing as I removed Windows 7 and loaded Windows Vista SP2. However, with a clean slate, it runs very well. It boots exceptionally fast and doesn’t struggle with anything we throw at it. Youtube HD, hulu, flash-based sites, etc, it all works very well. Honestly there’s not much else their computer is used for, but most any basic tasks should be handled quite well. Heat is manages pretty well. It’s not as cool as my Core 2, but better than their old laptop (Athlon X2) and pretty resonable when using basic features.
I suppose my only real complaints would be the cosmetics and the battery life. Cosmetics is minor. It’s a larger laptop than most 15.6″ with more empty space around the keyboard than’s really desired. There are also no soft buttons as you may see in the pictures, but those usually remain untouched on my machines. It does, however, have a nice volume roller along the front, so that’s a nice plus!
As for battery life, two hours is probably stretching it. I’ll use it off the plug while I’m at their house and probably can squeeze around 2 hours out of it using very basic things such as Meebo or browsing this site. Once you start watching Youtube videos, the life (as with most lappies) drops dramatically.
All in all, a good laptop for basic usage. It’s more aimed for the desktop replacement segment than portability though, so don’t expect to be carrying it around all that much.
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I bought this as a Christmas present to myself because it was a great price and I got some spending money for christmas. I had a Compaq computer before which had never let me down but lacked the proper processing powers (1.2 ghz and 512 RAM just didn’t cut it).
This computer was a steal for the price and so far it has been doing very well. I got it for “general use” yet this plays popular games like World of Warcraft and Guild Wars very well with low-moderate graphics settings. Youtube videos on 720p hd also play flawlessly but on 1080p hd the “cpu use” maxes out at 100% when the screen moves at a certain speed so the graphics card and 2.2ghz single core processor seem to max out there. 2gb RAM seems to be plenty so far and I haven’t run into any problems.
My friend bought a $700+ new dell laptop with touch sentitive features and the works. This computer opens folders and programs faster even though the processor is 1.4 ghz slower and the RAM is 2gb slower. Unless you want High-end Video or audio editors or videos in high 1080p or higher this is a great deal for the price. Overall it looks bland and the layout is two bulky buttons and a small touchpad yet looks can be deceiving. As stated the fan comes on for about 5-20 seconds at certain intervals depending on how long it’s been on. This never bothers me though since the computer stays cool from it. It can be upgraded to 4gb of RAM which I might do if I ever need the processing power. Great Screen that looks like LCD at it’s best. Windows 7 is a great touch as well.
It’s cheap, it’s a bland silver, but you can’t beat it for the price.
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I purchased this for my Daughter who is in the States, she loves it and it’s a great help with her college work. My disappointment is that it hasn’t got a webcam and as this is also for Skype talk that’s BAD.
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This is a great a laptop and the price is unbeatable! I previously owned a Toshiba Satellite and the updates and design in this most recent laptop are great.
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I bought this Tobisha for my husband for Christmas 2009 and 3 months later he turned it on and it was just a white screen. We tried everything we knew to do and then I called the Toshiba service center. They told me right off that the computer was still under warranty. Then he told me that it would probably cost around 425.00 to fix it. $425.00 to fix a laptop that cost me $279.00. I asked him what good was the warranty if it did not cover anything. All he gave me was the run around. So I now have a $279.00 paper weight. So my advice is stay away from Toshiba.