Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The Satellite U405-S2856 laptop places high value performance on the design you want to buy. Featuring a dazzling 13.3-inch diagonal widescreen WXGA display with stunning TruBrite technology, get more from your views in a compact laptop. It doesn't get much more portable than this, at just under 5 pounds the Satellite U405-S2856 is ergonomically and sleekly redesigned, the chassis features an integrated hinge design for flexible screen adjustment and smooth, clean lines. This laptop delivers a host of features including wireless connectivity, DVD SuperMulti drive, and Webcam for entertainment to go. With the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 3GB RAM, enjoy superior speeds in every application you choose to run. 13.3 diagonal WXGA (1280 x 800) TruBrite TFT LCD Display Built-in Webcam and microphone Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD with up to 1292MB shared Graphics Memory Labelflash DVD+-R/RW Super Multi Drive with Double Layer FM Tuner with Antenna Intel Wi-Fi Link 5100 802.11a/g/n Wireless 3 x USB 2.0, Headphone out; Microphone-in, VGA, TV-Out (S-Video), IEEE-1394, RJ-45 Approximate Unit Dimensions - 12.4 (W) x 9.0 (D) x 1.38 (H) Approximate Unit Weight - 4.41 Pounds



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Rating: - The best in it's category
The machine is great. The only thing I miss is the fingerprint reader.
The sound is nice for a notebook. It's thin and light for it's class, and definitely a very good looking machine. The battery is supperb, nearly 5,5 hours with wi-fi on, and heavy Internet browsing. It's extremely quiet, and don't get too warm. The radio tuner is excellent, very nice to have it. I can also record from a stereo line in (nice feature), it's the same input as the microphone, but you can set it up through software (great for transfer LP's to MP3). Keyboard is very smooth and responsive, very confortable to type. Don't forget it's got Bluetooth too.
I'm very happy with it. Would buy it again.

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Rating: - U405-S2830 13`` - A thousand dollars for a garbage
I have the U405-S2830, which I dont know why they are not selling this model anymore, bec. it is pretty new model, I wonder if there is something wrong with the model.
Apart from this, it is 3 GB RAM and 250 GB, I can not understand how slow can it be, when the ones with less ram and hard drive are faster. it has the Intel Core T8100. So you pay thousand dollars for piece of s. and I believe I did the worst decision of my life with buying this. they say it is the Vista but I tried other models with vista and it is much more slower. You just need to open 2 windows to have `not responding!!!` answer and you wait and wait and wait.... and don't even try to select some of the the songs you have (and it is even enough even 10).. you just select and wait for many minutes so windows player relizes it and starts to play, and hopefully without `not responding` answer.
As you can see I am not even talking about complex computer using, these are just the basic moves, which a 10 year old even can do (or can not with Toshiba)

So I decided to have one more year to go with this junk and I already started to save money for an Apple next time.

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Rating: - Better than I expected.
This notebook is a 13,3" 2,26 GHz Core 2 Duo with 3 GB RAM and 320 GB HD. Ok. But... It has labeflash, extended battery and a radio turner. It would be better if it was a TV, but, for me that just bought because of the three first specifications... I strongly recomend. The price has come down since a I bought it.

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Rating: - Unfair Review
I placed an order for this laptop on Aug 16, 2008. Promised to deliver 18th and then 22nd but actually the product is out of stock (per CSR comment). I finally bought this from CC where it is much cheaper (incl taxes). If you can get the product from Amazon right in time at a lower price than others, it may be a worth. This review is not for the product but for Amazon. I am going to leave a detailed product review in the store which offered me great price and wonderful service.

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Rating: - Good outside, Bad inside + horrible experience with Amazon
The good:
(1) It's good looking! Some don't like that this shiny fusion finish is a fingerprint magnet, but I love it. I think this is one of the best looking laptops not produced by Apple.

(2) It is reasonably priced. This statement can be applied to many Toshiba laptops. Except for some pricy models (like R500), Toshiba seems to set the prices at very competitive levels. Usually Toshiba laptops are much cheaper (conditional on the specs) than Sony, Lenovo, and more or less comparable (but often cheaper) than Dell and HP.

(3) Decent keyboard, touchpad (synaptics), sound quality (average for a laptop), screen is shiny. 3 USBs, CD/DVD burner, Built in Camera, Bluetooth, Wirelss (not incl N). It is quiet, probably thanks for the P series processor.

The bad:
(1) I am worried about the touchpad button. I have been using the laptop only for two weeks, but the response of the right touchpad button (I am lefty so this is the left click button) is already getting less responsive. I used Dell and Lenovo in the past, and there was no problem in touchpad buttons after 4 years of use. I think that is not going to be the case with this laptop. Only for this reason, my next (or future) laptop will never be Toshiba.

(2) Toshiba doesn't seems to support XP. I cannot find drivers for XP from Toshiba's webpage.

(3) Recovery disk is really bad. I cannot choose which software to install when I implement a clean install. I tried to install without all the crapwares that Toshiba installed, but I cannot, because Recovery disk always recovers the laptop to its initial state (meaning thousands of craps which slow down or crush your PC). I hope Toshiba will include separate Vista disk or explain how to create an independent Vista disk. Also, because the recovery disk installs hundreds of craps, it takes really long time to recover...

(4) Customer service is horrible. Toshiba does not seem to accept emails. It took forever (I tried for this review but gave up after 20 min of waiting) to connect to a customer service person.

(5) This laptop is too new (using the latest Intel chipset) to be supported by Ubuntu or any major distro of Linux. For a while, you cannot use Linux nor XP, and thus stuck with Vista. Plus, Toshiba is not really famous for the support of Linux...

(6) No fingerprint reader. Kind of not steady build (compared with Thinkpad so probably not fair). Battery sticks out; Toshiab cheats a bit with the "dimension" of the laptop. It's not as small as the official dimension suggests.

The ugly: Amazon
I placed an order on August 12th. No update until August 19th, and suddenly I received an email saying that they do not have it in stock and thus they cannot make delivery in line with the estimated schedule. Hopefully Amazon will handle my order MUCH better next time :(