subject: Toshiba L312 Laptop Review [print this page] For consumers, the "price" is undoubtedly a measure of a laptop is worth buying a major factor. In order to compete for market share between the major brand notebook manufacturers playing a price war. In the price war intensified today, the low-end notebook market has gradually become the mainstream.
At present, China's notebook PC market is the most common of the three major Japanese brands - Toshiba, Sony and Fujitsu, Toshiba had only low-end notebook. Toshiba laptops can lead Japanese brands into China's low-end market has become a big suspense.
Toshiba Satellite L310 Series notebook is the workhorse brand new generation of price war. Currently, Toshiba L312 Toshiba L311 and have been listed. Toshiba L311 with a T2370 processor, 1GB memory, 120GB hard drive and DVD burner, price 4800 yuan; Toshiba L312 with a T5550 processor, 1GB memory, 200GB hard drive and DVD burner, price 5800 yuan.
Overall, the Toshiba L312 Toshiba L311 and the configuration and the price consumers are more receptive to the range. So, how the quality of its products, consumers became very concerned about.
Notebook Appearance
Toshiba L312 made using ABS plastic material, due to cost considerations, not using the Toshiba M300 and M800 series similar to the kind of case to protect the coating. Therefore, it is the degree of product appearance and resistance to wear anti-scratch, as compared to its own high-end notebook computers slightly inferior to some.
Toshiba L312's body size is 334 242 33.7-37.8mm, the body weight of 2.38Kg (with battery) / 2.85Kg (with battery and power supply). It uses 14.1-inch WXGA wide-screen design, the best resolution of 1280 800 pixels.
Toshiba L312 laptop lid open angle of 25 degrees -150 degrees, that is, parallel to the screen and keyboard can not be placed. It's no-lock switch cover design, when the screen down to a certain height, when the lid will automatically shut down, which is currently the most popular cover switch design.
Notebook Interfaces
Toshiba L312 body provides the following interfaces: 3 USB2.0, IEEE1394 Firewire, RGB port, microphone and headphone jack, RJ-11, RJ-45, power jack, ExpressCard slot, notebook lock, Six- card reader.
Toshiba L312 provides rich body interface, we can meet daily operational needs. Require special presentation is also Toshiba L312 laptop set up a front "volume control knob." We can use it to directly regulate the notebook computer's system volume.
Introduction notebook internal
Toshiba L312 is very easy to dismantle, if you want to upgrade the memory or on their own wireless network card, just unscrew the three screws.
Toshiba L312 provides two SO-DIMM memory slots, the maximum you can upgrade to 4GB DDR2 667MHz memory. However, if you want to use 32-bit operating system, so long as you upgrade to 3GB DDR2 667MHz memory on it. In addition, the Toshiba L312 also offers three antennas, we can upgrade the Intel 4965AGN wireless card itself.
Notebook Performance Testing
Toshiba L312 14.1-inch WXGA wide-screen design, equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 "Core 2 generation" processor, Intel GM965 chipset, 1GB DDR2 667MHz memory, 200GB hard drive, DVD burner and Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics. Now, let us take a look at its performance test results.
Toshiba L312 processor, memory and hard disk performance are good, and only mediocre graphics, pull down the overall score. In the course of the actual use of small series also found to play high end games with the TOSHIBA Satellite L311 battery is not realistic, even if online gaming, "The Frozen Throne Warcraft", but also shut down some of the effects, in order to ensure the smooth course of the game screen .
Notebook cooling performance and endurance
Toshiba L312 thermal performance: relatively good
Toshiba L312 thermal performance is relatively good, the palm rest and keyboard parts are within the normal operating temperature range, only the touch pad temperature is relatively high.
Toshiba L312 Battery life: very good
Toshiba L312 thermal performance is relatively good, the palm rest and keyboard parts are within the normal operating temperature range, only the touch pad temperature is relatively high.
Toshiba L312 Battery life: very good
Advantages
Product design and workmanship are good;
Configure enough, you can quickly handle the daily work;
Colorful screen, high-quality speaker and volume control knob, you can be comfortable watching movies listening to music.
Disadvantages
Start working for some time, the touch pad area is hot;
Graphics performance is poor, can not do some of the large-scale 3D games;
For female users, the body weight is quite heavy, inconvenient to carry on the work.
Overall, the TOSHIBA Satellite L312 battery for those who attach importance to product quality workmanship, comfort oriented notebook product, notebook graphics processing power for less demanding consumers.
My laptop mobility, security, game requirements are not very high, the only care is their daily work performance (using some of the more basic word processing software and image processing software) and audio-visual entertainment performance (daily home The only entertainment is watching movies on Youku), Toshiba L312 just for me this type of consumer.
Go back to the beginning of the topic, we believe that the current price to L312, Toshiba notebook with this low-end products into the market, there are still some difficulties. Its overall configuration and competitor product analysis point of view, the price of Toshiba L312 can be reduced to 5,300 yuan if a file or even less, will have certain destruction.
