Toshiba M302 Notebook Review
Notebook from the date of the birth of portability as a result of the focus of public attention
, good mobility is indeed our notebook and desktop computers to distinguish the important factors, but the body is no longer the only laptop we choose a standard. Out of portability, performance and price of multi-dimensional consideration, the following 10-inch and 17 inch smaller than the "big man" have a place in the market, but the market is still 13, 14-inch mainstream laptop, these products reflect the the balance of portability and performance, and configuration and make coordination between the price, called the "gold size" is not excessive.
Spring of 2008, Toshiba introduced a main mainstream consumer notebook market, M302, Toshiba, this product has changed the classic blue and white color paint or star shape, with "Star Galaxy language" as the theme, with dark gray body with silver with stripes, reflecting different from before, "White on Blue Star," the deep and fashion.
Toshiba Satellite M302 Toshiba Satellite M Series belongs, can be seen as an upgrade version of M200, which uses 14.1-inch widescreen, an Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 processor (1.83GHz), ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470 discrete graphics, 1GB DDR2 memory, 160GB SATA hard drive and double-sided DVD burner, audio and video entertainment in the performance exciting, but less portable 2.4Kg weight.
Appearance of the resolution
Toshiba Satellite M302 14.1-inch screen, the whole dark silver-based color selection, with a lot of flavor with the rules of the metal stripes, it feel like being in the Galaxy, across time and space to create a ultra-modern fashion sense. M302 cover with a piano paint, and paint the piano plus a layer of the outer coating with higher hardness, abrasion resistance greatly enhanced the cover, that will not scratch with a coin to scratch. Although the paint surface of the dust to poor protection, easy to leave fingerprints, but because of M302 using silver color, it is not obvious fingerprint dust.
Open the screen, we see that C is also used piano paint surface technology, and the same with metallic stripes, and the roof style pavilions. These stripes are not only beautiful to play the role of modification, but the aluminum material repression, can be effectively shielded from the radiation inside the body, but also improve the body's resilience.
After booting, the original deep calm of the C surface will be little "stars" embellishment, power key, multimedia control keys, "Satellite" Logo and many other locations with a cold effect with LED display lights, gleaming against the background of dark gray background brilliance. This design not only greatly improve the M302 platform of beauty, but also in the dark so that the user can easily understand the operation of the machine operation.
Specifications
Toshiba M300 series including M301, M302, M305 three products are designed for mainstream entertainment market, and M302 is the mainstream of the "backbone", it is equipped with T5550 processor, clocked at 1.83GHz.
Interface analysis
Toshiba Satellite M302's performance in the expansion of law-abiding, the left side of the interface with a relatively dense body, provides two USB2.0 interface, IEEE1394, HDMI interface and EX card interface. 2 USB and HDMI interface, a parallel arrangement, the smaller spacing, give the user when using a larger peripheral inconvenience.
The right side of the fuselage provides a double burner, USB port, telephone line interface and cable interfaces.
In addition, the fuselage front M302 provides a multi-card reader, wireless LAN hardware switch and volume control dial, volume control dial While the design is very simple, but simple, is very user-friendly design.
The rear fuselage just the power jack, there is no functional interface.
Operating handle
Toshiba Satellite M302 notebook does not use conventional keyboard, the keyboard the right order of PgUp, PgDn keys, so accustomed to Pinyin input method the user some discomfort. The main control area, and no difference with the regular keyboard, but the overall button more rigid, noisy percussion, back bit longer.
TOSHIBA Satellite M302 battery touch pad, unique style, and to keep the palm rest area has been striped pattern, but with a matte texture surface, and the outer edge of the touchpad and palm rest area boundaries is not obvious bump, the user is inevitable during the operation "out of bounds."
Audio and video performance
Toshiba Satellite M302 14.1-inch Clear Super View LCD screen, the screen effect of outstanding color performance, brightness and viewing angle are satisfactory, but the glossy screen is difficult to avoid bringing the anti-light shadow problem. During testing, we found that the screen hinge fixity poor hand flick the screen before and after fibrillation occurs when the screen.
In sound, M302 classic Harman Kardon speakers, speakers at the front of the screen hinge, the use of PA plastic grille design, deep bass treble loud and clear, the overall sound more satisfactory.
Overall performance
We first use the search function of Vista comes with Toshiba Satellite M302 for overall performance testing, test results scored 4.0, which drives the highest points 5.0, flaunt graphics performance and the "graphics" and "game graphics" sub low.
Conducted through HD Tune hard disk test, we see M302 hard disk data transfer rate is high, but high frequency fluctuations of the curve, the stability of the hard disk still needs to be improved.
HD playback
Toshiba Satellite M302 is equipped with ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470 graphics card, ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470 with 55-nanometer process, using ATI RV620 graphics core, VISTA SP1 Microsoft DX10.1 hardware provides support for high-definition video playback performance worth the wait.
We selected a 1080P H.264 encoding specifications HDDVD, using PowerDVD to play. In actual tests, the
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Life
Toshiba Satellite M302 comes standard with a 3700mAh battery, which is no doubt that some 14-inch notebook "stingy", and tested life time is 105 minutes, with a relative cell 4400mAh or 4800mAh mainstream entertainment this, M302's performance in endurance regrettable.
Summary
Toshiba Satellite M302 stylish, the configuration utility, has reached a good balance of price and performance, including the configuration of the biggest highlights is the use of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470 graphics card, and volume control dial, multi-media status indicator also reflects the design of
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Advantages: stylish; more beautiful and practical pieces of LCD indicator; high-definition video playback smooth.
Disadvantages: short battery life, screen stability needs to be improved
by: burberrychou
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