The
Toshiba A200-180
laptop is a
desktop replacement
PC rather than a portable laptop machine due to its bulkiness.
It doesn’t have a great battery life, just 78 minutes, but it has other features that compensate for this.
The
Toshiba Satellite A200-180 is powered by 1.86GHz processor, making it a reasonably powerful machine with 1GB of DDR
RAM .
Options for connectivity are good. It also has a 6-in-1 card reader and quartet of
USB ports, and a bonus is the 1.3Mp
camera that comes with the system.
Surprisingly it does not have
Bluetooth or a TV tuner function.
Screen displayed images and videos are good but the graphics were disappointing. After testing a frame rate score in the games test was 3fps (frames per second) which won’t hit the mark for gamers.
Despite the bulk the laptop has a stylish appearance with a silver interior and dark metallic blue chassis. The speakers are quite prominent which adds to the design of the machine.
The large touchpad makes cursor control easier. The
keyboard design makes using it quite comfortable with adequate space to rest your palms.
Buttons are conveniently placed around the laptop with a volume control scroll-wheel at the front next to the
headphone and
microphone port. The laptop comes with a good
software bundle that includes Microsoft Works 8.5, Ulead DVD MovieWriter and InterVideo WinDVD.
This laptop is not great for serious game players but as an entertainment, multimedia machine it has enough power and speed.