Toshiba Portege A600 Laptop – A Review
Specs:
Laptop: Toshiba Portege A600-122
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300
Graphics adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Screen: 12.1 inches, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels and bright.
Weight: 1.5kg (lighter than most laptops)
Prices: Start from $1,399 and up
Description:
The Toshiba Portege A600 is an attractive, stylish and lightweight notebook with a built-in HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) modem, which is simply the new protocol for mobile data transmission (MDA). HSDPA is a great improvement on W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access – 3G protocol). HSDPA can achieve data transmission speeds of 8 to 10 megabytes per second, which means faster streaming of video and music, among other positive features.
This laptop has a 12.1-inch screen and can run multiple programs at the same time with alacrity.
Several features make it stand out from its predecessors:
o Environmentally friendly: The Portege A600 is ENERGY STAR 4.0 qualified and has achieved Gold status through the Green Electronics Council’s Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). For those uninformed, ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy that supports energy-efficient products that are affordable and help protect the environment. ambient.
o LED display: The 12.1-inch display has an LED (light-emitting diode) that provides backlit images in vibrant colors with superior, sharp quality. Most LED backlit screens sacrifice quality at the expense of thicker, heavier, less portable laptops. The Portege A600 surprises, however, with all the backlight features, but it’s thin, light and has excellent battery life/power consumption.
o Integrated Optical Drive – High Density Mounting Technology (HDMT) gives this Toshiba laptop double-sided motherboard component mounting technology. This mass reduction technology is what has allowed the Portégé A600 to have a nice, slim shape and to be light and attractive. (There is also no need for supplementary cables).
o Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Shared memory GPU and GM45 (Montevina) chipset are speed enabled due to the addition of two shaders and a high core clock. This laptop doesn’t really support gaming apart from DirectX 10 games which can be played on very low settings. The video processor can help decode HD videos and provide effortless Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.
o Intel Core 2 Duo: (combined with Core Solo) that achieves 5-20% more speed without the need for excessive power consumption. As an extra, it has a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE unit and an additional ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit).
o USB/eSATA Sleep-and-Charge combo port: The Portégé A600 port combines two functions:
1. Ability to charge USB external devices regardless of whether the Portégé A600 is on/off, in sleep/hibernate mode.
2. Data transfer from eSATA external hard drives: five times faster than USB 2.0.
o Toshiba EasyGuard Technology with PC Health Monitor: Alerts the user when the system needs attention. This feature keeps track of the hard drive, battery life, temperature, etc., and forms a vital part of the Portégé A600 as it ensures the protection of the hard drive. The keyboard is spill resistant.