Friday, September 27, 2013

First Look: Toshiba U845W Ultrabook

Specs: $675 Sep 2013

14.4" LED widwscreen 1792x768 screen, 3rd Gen Intel® Core™ i5-3337U processor, 6GB ram

500GB Serial ATA hard drive, Intel® Wireless Display, Multiformat media reader, 3 USB 3.0 ports, Weighs 4 lbs. and measures just 0.8" thin, Midnight silver aluminum finish


I love the casing on this laptop, it has a grippy-rubbery bottom and half of the top. This makes it feel very secure in your hand which is optimal for portability. The processing specs of this laptop are great, the ethernet and usb ports are a plus. The thing I don't like is the super widescreen display. While it is about 14" wide, it is only 7.9" tall. This does not make for very much vertical screen space, therefore forcing lots of scrolling. I think the screen is something you'd have to really want if you were considering this purchase, otherwise there are lots of other laptops with similar specs with a more familiar screen size. The screen itself did have very crisp bright color.
At 4lbs, this laptop is very solid feeling, if a little heavy. I carried it around a little and it was just OK.
For usability, this laptop came with Windows 7 and functioned similar to other i5 Windows 7 machines.

Pros:
Processor
Ethernet and usb ports
Thin
Body
Card reader


Cons: 
Screen size
Weight (maybe)