Toshiba Satellite A105-S4284 Notebook Review

The Satellite series of Notebook computers from Toshiba are a good affordable computer line with some very impressive features. Whether for a desktop replacement or for mobile computing you cannot go wrong with one of these versatile and affordable computers.

Listing all the basic features for this line of notebook computer does not do justice to the affordable price that you would pay for a computer with a dual core processor and 1 Giga byte of memory. I have a pretty decent desktop computer that has 1024 mega bytes of memory and a good AMD Athlon processor. It plays some pretty good current video games that require not only good processors but a good video card. The laptop that I am typing this article on and about has the same memory and a little less processor speed than my Compaq desktop. The only thing lacking in this general purpose notebook is a video card that would equal my desktop computer. The processor is a dual core from Intel, which means it uses two cores to process information for two separate tasks, actually better than my desktop's processor.

The dual core processor ensures being able to have two separate and different programs running at the same time and not have one affect the other or draw resources from the processor as a whole while both programs are running. You can run your anti virus scan while surfing the web, which I tried, and not have your web surfing slow down due to the running virus scan. While you're doing one task and your computer suddenly starts another like a virus scan, update or anything else you will not have the first program slow down because the processor is being overworked. This is a very nice feature in any kind of computer and now is all the rage. With gaming it means that you can play the game and not have to turn off all the extra programs on your computer but for this general notebook computer it means that you can work and not have your current work interrupted by programs running in the background.

I will list the features of the Toshiba Satellite A105 line and specific ones to the Satellite model A105-S4284 that I was able to review.