Toshiba Equium A210 -1C4

I've owned this Toshiba laptop for 3 years now. In this review I will tell you about it.

The laptop gets off to a good start with blazing fast performance thanks to it's 1.8 Ghz AMD Processor with 2GB of RAM. It's built well too. It's very easy to transport around although it gets very hot which isn't very comfortable. The screen is brilliant as well, it's big and clear perfect for watching movies or just reading a few Word Documents. In my opinion it looks pretty good. Windows Vista Home Premium was pre-installed which was the most recent OS at the time.

On a more negative note the included hard drive is small at just 80GB although that's the least of it's problems. After just 18 Months of use the included hard drive (Toshiba I believe) failed and started clicking. I managed to save a few image files although the majority of my files were gone for good. The repair bill came to £100 which included a new Hitachi Hard drive and Windows Vista re-installed. Also the battery life isn't brilliant even if the new hard drive has best in class energy consumption! Finally, there is no included software apart from a DVD burning Suite, I would have liked to see an office suite installed.

So, overall this Equium A210-1C4 from Toshiba gives outstanding performance on a budget. It's not brilliant at portability with poor battery life and the included hard drive isn't very well made but if you get over that you'll have a brilliant little laptop.