Toshiba Satellite L655-S5158 Review
If somebody would ask us to describe Toshiba Satellite L655-S5158 in only one word, this would probably be “space”. Used with the small capacity hard disks from other laptops, users will be impressed by this device made by Toshiba. Its producers have not been stingy at all when they designed it.
Toshiba Satellite L655-S5158 is a high end laptop that is loading a next generation processor of 2.53 GHz, Intel Core i3-380M, which is presenting a lot of advanced technologies like Intel Hyper-Threading, VT-x, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep or Intel Fast Memory Access. In more common words, thanks to this, we should therefore expect performance of the CPU intensive task by an order of 5%. The integrated graphics and the integrated memory controller should bring another plus of performance, comparing to the earlier Intel core 2 processors.
The graphics engine of Satellite L655-S5158 should also impress those who like gaming. Over the years, Intel evolved a lot in this domain, succeeding in acquiring some important improvement. The Mobile Intel HD Graphics is able to satisfy even the most demanding tastes. By moving the graphics core inside the CPU, Intel obtained a substantial percentage of performance. Add to this the Graphics Media Accelerator and you will obtain a laptop that will fit perfectly to a lot of mainstream tasks including high-definition video playback acceleration and a wide range of casual games. It also has 64MB-1696MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory.
The hard disk I was talking about earlier is SATA and it has a capacity of 640 gigabytes, being able of 54000 rotations per minute. Add to this 4 gigabytes of DDR 3 at 1066 MHz and you will obtain a perfect system for performing multi-tasks without a problem.
The display type of Toshiba Satellite L655-S5158 is a HD TruBrite LED Backlit, coming on a 15.6″ widescreen, that supports 720p content, 16:9 aspect ratio and an 1366×768 high definition resolution.
Communications are relatively standard: 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi wireless networking, an webcam and a microphone built into LCD bezel and a 10/100 Ethernet LAN. Unfortunately there isn’t any Bluetooth or a SmartCard reader port, but you can benefit of a memory card port and HDMI port. The Touchpad has multi-touch control that can be activated or deactivated thanks to the On/Off button.
The battery life of Satellite L655-S5158 is very good comparing to other laptops from the market, being a Li-Ion one and going up to 5.2 hours. Compact all this features in a light Black Fusion pack of only 5.48 lbs and you will obtain one of the best laptops for gaming from the market: Toshiba Satellite L655-S5158.
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