A Computing Web of Trust...Toshiba Satellite
Written: Dec 09 '99 (Updated Apr 24 '00)
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Pros: A trustworthy companion for your life on the road
Cons: None whatsoever
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| Bonies7's Full Review: Toshiba Satellite 4080 |
"We are all caught in the middle....of one...long...treacherous riddle. Can I trust you? Should you trust me too?" Hmmmmm. What do those terrific lyrics by Nan Knighton from the song The Riddle (The Scarlet Pimpernel Original Cast Recording) have to do with a Toshiba laptop?
More than you might imagine. The truth for this computer user is that the promise of a manufacturer versus the reality of the system is often cause for concern. Should I put my trust in a system....allow it to hold all my company's secrets and plans....allow it to become my virtual right hand man?
To continue the analogy from The Scarlet Pimpernel...."Can I run to you....are you true to me?".... or said another way - will you leave me stranded in a remote hotel room with nothing but a blank screen the night before a major presentation?
Luckily, the answer of trust for this Toshiba laptop is a resounding YES. My latest Toshiba....I've had three and they've earned my trust over the last five years....is the Satellite 4080. It is a sleek black model with an incredible 14.1 inch TFT Active Matrix Screen that shows incredible detail on the images it displays. It's actually hard to describe it....but the Europeans have a word for it....Enchante. We Americans might just say....."Wow"!
The unit contains a Intel Pentium II with a 366 processor. Really....REALLY fast computing power coupled with 128 mb of RAM and a 6.4 gig hard drive. It handles Word processing and Excel spreadsheets with the ease of Broadway veteran delivering his signature song. Not a missed beat....and the feeling of using it is one of incredible satisfaction that the technological gains of the last decade are at your own fingertips.
The keyboard is as large as you can manage to squeeze into an laptop housing....and the floppy drive and cd rom drive are both integrated into the system. No need to carry those along with you and be constantly juggling the attachments in crowded airplane seat. The internal speakers are at the top of the unit and produce that same tinny sound that IBM, Sony and the other contenders mirror. But when you couple this unit with a pair of Benwin Flat Panel laptop speakers as external accessories....wow again....it produces audio sounds that rival a stand alone stereo.
The components of this system all work well together. The buttons....the plug ins....the controls....all show the marriage of intelligent engineering with someone actually considering the end user. What a concept....and one that works EXTREMELY well as a complete package.
Can you tell that I put the Satellite 4080 in my Web of Trust? And can you tell that I endorse it wholeheartedly?
Here's another line from my favorite musical..."We all have so many faces...the real self often erases..." Boy, isn't that so true with so many things we deal with in our business and professional lives. It's REALLY nice when an electronic assistant shows the same face day after day....month after month.
A reliable, trustworthy face.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 2600
Operating System: Windows
Processor: Intel Pentium II
Processor speed: 301-400
Screen Size: 14"
RAM: 128
Internal Storage: CD-ROM
Hard Drive (GB): 4-6
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