subject: Toshiba Satellite L517 Notebook Review [print this page] Toshiba laptop in the last two years achieved good sales, market share steadily, which contributed the most talked about M Series. Strong in the halo of M-series, its positioning in the low-end market, Satellite L Series is quite obvious low-key. In the near future, Toshiba introduced the L-series of a home laptop - Toshiba Satellite L517. L517 broke Satellite L Series has always been low with the bottleneck, the configuration of the ATi Mobility Radeon HD4530 graphics card, making the overall performance has been raised. Appearance, L517 paint with a stylish design. Configuration, powered by Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 processor.
Toshiba Satellite L517 appearance and details of the introduction
Appearance, L517 silver-tone titanium tanks, giving a soft visual experience. Cover the use of body paint technology, while using the membrane transfer technology, it will not only make panels more resistant, but also to highlight the whole fashionable. Body C face with silver-based, uses the same membrane transfer technology, the patchwork of corrugated so that machine is no longer tedious.
L517 14-inch LED-backlit HD-hyun color, using a 16:9 golden ratio, a resolution of 1366 768, so that users like to watch HD movies can have a comfortable viewing experience. Around the screen using the traditional matte black design, and C show the surface of the silver contrast.
Toshiba Satellite L517 Interface layout
L517 interface is quite rich, essential to meet various user needs. Machine interface, centralized design of the fuselage on the left, are: security slot, VGA port, Ethernet port, HDMI port, eSATA and USB interface and headset share the MIC jack. The right side of the interface is relatively simple, DVD burner, take up most of the space, in addition to two users commonly used USB interface, the design is the top of the power jack. Machine interface, the layout is relatively easy, user-friendly plug operation.
L517 in front of the fuselage design of the card reader interface, eliminating the need to connect an external card reader the trouble. Next to a very unique design of the volume knob, user-adjustable volume. As the machine using dive shaft design, the fuselage design of the back without any interface.
L517 at the top of the screen is a camera built for easy video chat users. Shot by shot, we can see the camera's shooting ability is relatively weak, but for the average user has enough video chat.
Toshiba Satellite L517 operating experience
L517's keyboard as a whole gives the "stable" feeling, the keyboard keys are very "stocky." Different from the traditional key, L517 small gap between the buttons, keys ladder edges slope shape design, so to avoid the debris into the keyboard. Keyboard keys matte surface design, feel good, key key-way medium. The top of the keyboard to set the left and right speakers, sound good. Just above the keyboard shortcuts and the design of several power switch, user-friendly operation.
L517 touchpad is particularly unique, the usual notebook touchpad a "sink" design, in which concave panel. The L517's touchpad direct "integration" in the panel surface, and touch pad area is extremely small, more suitable for girls to use. Matte surface touchpad design, feel good, and precise positioning. The mouse buttons below the relative becomes very large, very convenient to operate.
Let's look at L517 temperature test, in air-conditioned room at room temperature 28 turn after 2 hours, the keyboard surface temperature is moderate, the maximum temperature of 36 . Although this is not the temperature is relatively high, but you can see the temperature near the focus of the touchpad, which the user's actions or will some inconvenience. Good temperature control at the bottom of the fuselage, the maximum temperature is only 36 , it seems L517 thermal performance is very good.
Toshiba Satellite L517 configuration analysis and test weight
Hardware configuration, L517 based on Intel Centrino 2 processor technology, using a 45nm process Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 processor (clocked at 2.1GHz), with PM45 + ICH9M Chipset, 2MB L2 cache, TOSHIBA SATELLITE T235-S1350 battery performance is very good. Graphics cards, L517 using ATi Mobility Radeon HD4530 graphics card, memory 256MB, enough to meet the entertainment needs of users. Meanwhile, the machine comes standard with 2GB memory, 250GB hard drive, to meet the basic needs of users.
L517 with 6-cell 3700mAh lithium battery, through BatteryMark test, L517 final life time of 3 hours and 5 minutes, the performance is very good. Families and students to meet the general user.
As a 14-inch models, L517 in weight control is good, the whole weight 2.2810Kg, travel adapter with some slightly heavier weight, up to 2.7720Kg.
Toshiba Satellite L517 performance test
Brief description of the test platform: Install Windows Vista Ultimate English operating system, install the necessary chipset drivers, video drivers, sound card drivers and network card drivers, etc.; off Vista Sidebar, close ORC, close the screen saver, turn off hibernation, shut down the system and other automatic Update Updates settings; desktop background set to a solid color, select and set the highest performance mode of the battery; set the system maximum performance mode; the C drive TOSHIBA PA2487UR battery defragmentation, etc.
The Vista test, L517 scored 3.6 points, but only some weak graphics items. Other items can be seen that the score is still very high especially in the hard disk and CPU are 5 points or more, the performance is sufficient to use for home users, there will be no problem running Vista.
CineBench R10 software major processor and graphics performance tests. Tested, L517 Duo T6500 processor has been 4274 points, enough to meet the performance needs of various users.
Summary
Although the Toshiba Satellite L517 models located in the home, but its overall performance is very strong, sufficient to meet the basic needs of various users. Meanwhile, the paint appearance and membrane transfer technology, make the whole more fashion sense. The current TOSHIBA PA3250U-1BRS battery price is especially attractive to the user's eye, for the pursuit of cost-effective for all people to use.
Advantage
Powerful processor performance
High cost
Disadvantage
Smaller touchpad
The whole thickness of the thicker
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