Toshiba A300-1BZ Laptop Review, Specification And Offers

Toshiba A300-1BZ

If you are looking for a decent multi media laptop that will not break the bank then we have the model for you.  The Toshiba A300-1BZ is a true heavy weight for the price of a middle weight laptop, it boasts a generous 3 giga bytes of RAM and a powerful intel core duo 2 processor.  This is great for playing your favourite games or watching movies on the move or at home.

The Toshiba a300ibz has built in media keys for quick access to sound and dvd functions (play, skip, stop etc) and also includes some decent Harman Kardon speakers for clear sound quality.  This laptop has a larger than nessesary hard drive weighing in at 250 gb’s.

The 15.4 inch widescreen is crystal clear and is great for what ever you use your laptop for, the machine is also quite light so you will not find it to difficult to transport.  In summary this is a great laptop with real high end features, it is not just great for the money but it is great at twice the price.

As always if you have any questions please feel free to ask below.

Full Specification

  • Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T8100
  • (2.1GHz, 800 MHz, 3 MB Cache)
  • Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Premium
  • 3 GB Memory
  • 250 GB Hard Drive
    • DVD Super Multi ReWriter
    • 15.4″ TruBrite Widescreen Display
    • Face recognition software, webcam
    • Harman Kardon speakers, wireless enabled
    • touch sensitive media keys

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    • I like the Toshiba A300 1BZ but are unsure about the lack of an HDMI port. Is the S-video sufficient for output to 32" LCD TV or is worth waiting for a model with an HDMI port?

    • i was reading several reviews before wanting to purchase this awsome looking laptop, and alot of them say that the glossy black finish is annoying and requires frequent cleaning of fingerprints ect... would you agree?

    • The piano black gloss does collect finger prints but to be honest it is no chore to clean, I use a lint free cloth to lean mine (like a glasses cleaner). The looks are amazing so I would not let it put you off. Hope this helps

      • Hello richard
        can you help me getting the system restore disc for a300-1bz. I would appreciate if you could do that for me as buying online is way to expensive for me. Thanks. Will be looking forward for your reply.

    • Well thanks for that Richard, one other thing, before the buy, is there and down points towards this laptop? like small annoying things like tinney speakers or it over heating??

    • I have had no problems with it overheating mate. And no niggles that I can think of really

    • I like the looks of this laptop, what is the battery power like?
      I read in a review that the touch pad controls (play, rewind etc) light up and this is annoying when using the laptop in dark lighting, do you find this to be an issue?

      (I ask as I would obviously watch dvds in the dark and do not want a glare from the controls)

    • The battery lasts around 4 hours and a half and have not had any problems with the glare to be honest

    • Great, thanks so much for your quick response. Now to convince my dad it's a good choice!!

    • Had this laptop for one day now, so these are very much first impressions. Firstly the bad side. the glossy finish. Looks great but is actually awful. It collects marks like no bodies business and requires frequent wiping with a soft cloth to keep clean. the keyboard is the same and much more difficult to keep clean. A matt finish would have been so much better.

      The 250GB hard disk came split into two partitions, each of about 120gb (something gets lost in the partitioning). The E drive parition holds the backup and is used to install the operating system onto the c drive at first boot. It seemed completely pointless to ship it like that, took almost an hour before it was usable, and whats the point of storing backups on a partition on the same hard disk - a hard disk failure will lose your recovery software too. They should have supplied one large 250gb hard disk and supplied installation disks or recovery software on dvd. At the earliest point i shall use Partition magic to change the hard disk partitions and burn off the recovery software to a dvd.

      The hard disk was so full of preinstalled junk software - you name it there was a trial version on it that it took me ages to uninstall everything and then defrag the hard disk. this saved me about 15GB of HD space.

      Once up and running though it was impressive. The sound is good even from the built in speakers. It didnt get too hot even after 6 hours of constant running. battery life looks good, and the maximum life isnt achieved until youve done a few charges. I got 4 hours out of the first charge today. It took about 2 hours to fully charge out of the box whilst running the machine. Its fast to boot and fast to shut down too.

      Its real test will come tomorrow when i start installing my specialist software. First impressions are good though and i managed to get £30 knocked off the price at PC World. Their prices were roughly the same as internet prices - give or take a few quid, so its not worth shopping around. be warned though that there are a lot of model variations of the A300 and at first glance many online seem a lot cheaper, but when you dig you will find they have reduced specifications.

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