Toshiba Equium L20-197 Reviews

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Toshiba Equium L20-197
2.7 stars
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Average Ratings for Toshiba Equium L20-197

  • Screen Quality3.2 stars
  • Battery Life1.5 stars
  • Ease of Use3.1 stars
  • Value for Money2.7 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings2.5 stars
  • Overall Rating2.7 stars

12 Reviews For Toshiba Equium L20-197

  • Guest 6th May 2009

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Toshiba Equilibrium is an excellent Laptop. no problems for 3 years and going strong.

  • chris10184 9th Apr 2009

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    Toshiba Equium L20-197is slow, boring, can't handle it's specs and the drivers for the wireless are impossible to find.

  • Guest 18th Feb 2009

    Reviewer rating: 3 stars


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    I've had the Toshiba Equium L20-197 laptop for at least 4 years, and still works great
    In other reviews it has been noted that the Toshiba Equium L20-197 laptop is really slow, but buy a larger memory for it and it's as fast as any other laptop

  • asdabob 13th Feb 2009

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    I have had the Toshiba Equium L20 197 for about 4 years now, I do not fill memory up with gameing or lots of tunes, but even so it does seem to run slow sometimes. I mainly use it for E-mails and surfing the WWW, but if I want to watch a video,eg Youtube, then it seems to buffer lots. All in all, it does exactly what it says on the tin.

  • rickymallory 18th Jan 2009

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    I had this Toshiba Equium L20-197 laptop for about 6 months working perfectly until the screen started to go, we phoned Toshiba up and we described the problem (horizontal lines across the screen at certain angles) and they took it away for repairs, it had a new screen fitted, but about a month later when the warranty finished the screen went again this time the lines were vertical depending on the angle of the screen.not only that the laptop was really slow, only come with 256mb ram but we go ...

  • haggiz88 18th Nov 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    Screen is alright, DVDRW, Keyboard rather easy to use, Love the radar style wifi detector... however in my experience the Toshiba Equium L20-197 Laptop is Slow, Bad battery life on some, colour of laptop is bland too in my opinion. Therefore I do not recommend the Toshiba Equium L20-197, its lasted me a long time, but after 4 years I need to replace it.

  • Guest 29th May 2008

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    I have found this notebook to be quite reliable, even when my children have stood on it. It is reasonably styled, and is quite light. The battery seems to run flat in about 20 minutes, so you need to carry it around with the power lead.
    The air vents are on the bottom, just where your knees would go if you placed it on your lap, so you can't actually use it on your lap - you have to use it on a taletop.
    I updraged the memory from 512Mb to 2Gb, which seems to have improved the speed.
    All in all, ...

  • Guest 23rd Apr 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    Ok well the price is good and thats about it, I've had this laptop for a total of 3 years now, which at a glance you would think made it fairly hardy? WRONG. this laptop has cost more money to maintain than it did to begin with in my experience, I've been through a total of 6 chargers, which if brought off toshiba directly would've cost £80 a time, within a year the motherboard was totally fried, the memory had overfilled within a week of me having it, the laptop struggles with even runni ...

  • Guest 15th Mar 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Very effective, good looking computer that is light and has good value for money. Well recommend Toshiba Equium L20-197, the only bad thing I have to say about this Toshiba Laptop is it is quite slow in my experience, but apart from that it is great value for money.

  • little guy p 7th Apr 2006

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    I think the Toshiba Equium L20-197 is an ok laptop and as it is quite cheap. I think is value for money I have brought a ram upgrade which has increased the speed and only cost around £30

  • Bobokins 19th Feb 2006

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    Toshiba did a job of trying to get the Equium L20 laptop into the less than £500 margin, and they cut corners by doing so, which I am afraid the L20 suffers with. It is a real shame as it looks the part, but it is so slow.

  • uknigel Rank: Lance Corporal 19th Jan 2006

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    I would not recommend the Toshiba Equium L20-197 laptop, as it's so slow. I've been using my old Acer Aspire, which is more stable and much faster.