Toshiba Satellite L350-20G
The basics
A seventeen-inch screen is big enough to make your beige box of a desktop redundant, a dual core Celeron processor keeps things ticking over nicely and it clocks in at under £400! Jog on, recession. We've no idea what's satellitey about the Toshiba Satellite L350-20G though.
The good
If wires are clogging up your life as well as your house, the Toshiba Satellite L350-20G makes a great desktop replacement. Two gigs of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and a decent rezzie screen will do you fine for surfing the web, word processing, a bit of downloading and playing the Sims for hours on end. It is portable too though - the power brick is tiny so you'll get away with pulling this one out on train trips.
The bad
Do you plan on buying a new PC game anytime soon? We only ask 'cos, it's not going to run on this machine. The reason the Satellite L350-20G is so cheap is because it doesn't have a decent graphics card inside, or much RAM to stop it from shuddering to a halt mid-level. You're stuck with solitaire, or DVDs - which look ace, by the way.
The bottom line
Not a bad package at all. It's the blandest looking laptop you'll ever see but that's besides the point: if you want a cheap desktop replacement with a big screen, on a budget, the Toshiba Satellite L350-20G is for you.
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steven corless12 October 2009
gadgets are go!
Report as inappropriateChris Pattison01 November 2009
I love spanners!
Report as inappropriateJack 14 November 2009
=) I have this laptop and I'm loving it! Hoping it will last me 8 years! - Jack
Report as inappropriatechris turpin02 December 2009
have a look at the Toshiba L450D 11X with Xmas 5 code at currys
Report as inappropriateAndy09 February 2010
Hi I've had two Toshiba laptops - had loads of problems and rubbish back up - from DVD becoming incompatible when window service pack load etc.. - no fix from Toshiba avaialable - on the 19" the power supply packs up regularly - don't bother with Toshiba (£60) buy one off ebay - got one for £13 miles better. Stick with Dell - use them for 10 years never missed a beat.
Report as inappropriatex23 February 2010
I don't know who to trust, I want to buy a laptop, but one person's saying "I'm never ever going to buy Dell again" so I did a bitof reserch and Toshiba was starting to look good and someone else is saying "they're rubbish stick with Dell" :s
Report as inappropriateAndy G25 February 2010
Is this the best sub £400 laptop around.
Report as inappropriateJoanne20 March 2010
Get Toshiba laptops they are great! Dell computers are an expensive load of rubbish and they employees don't have a clue...
Report as inappropriateMattie19720 April 2010
This is ok but if you want a good laptop for under £400 get the acer aspire 5532 it has more RAM and a better graphics card!!! and at amazon.co.uk it is only £389!!!! the one set back is that the screen is only 15.6 inches!!!! but otherwise a great buy!!!!!!!!! i love the show btw!!!!!
Report as inappropriatesteve1227 April 2010
where can i buy this laptop from?
Report as inappropriatepete08 May 2010
the best buys regular laptop needs to be updated.
Report as inappropriatesniper9710 May 2010
me want one know!!!!:) but only have £10 at the moment because i just baught the ipad and i had to give £100 to my mum but at least she is paying the rest! :'(
Report as inappropriatemallan05 August 2010
this is not in budget for me
Report as inappropriatejason02 October 2010
i've got a toshiba satellite aswell and mines had many problems too, it's an l300d- not good: slow, diabolical battery life, very slow, unreliable. I dont like it one bit
Report as inappropriateS.W.A.T Pr3d4t0r19 December 2010
own it, and dont understand y people say that it has crap graphics, when its all upto ram and i got 2gb and i can easily play cod4 mp with 35-70 fps (not bad for high end game)
Report as inappropriatedanthegamer15 January 2011
I have got the Toshiba Satellite L350-262 and this one does have a graphics card :) it also costs around £400.00 and it has windows 7. Maybe I've got a newer model?
Report as inappropriatejamie27 May 2011
ok some people are questioning if they should buy a Toshiba Satellite my opinion is that if you are a social networking monkey use it if your a web developer or wanting to try your hand at it dont spend any less then £500 in todays market with all the tech in laptops cheap is not an option unfortunately but thats what i am working to do i take broken laptops clean them up cosmetically replace ram and hdd i sell a laptop what new should cost £6-800 and sell them or sometimes even give them away for free to family's who are on very low income or on benefits due to illness's bringing the older community online but me myself i have 4 laptops a hp what is ok for web developing but sometimes slow with all the software a mac book pro for video editing a 3 year old Toshiba satellite pro (built by me) and also a dell ive had to rebuild the dell twice due to using official dell parts where the hdd has failed and the fan reached a temperature of 90 degrees after one hour of use so my advice dont buy budget new get an old laptop with a working monitor and build it again with after market parts :)
Report as inappropriatemeluced21 July 2011
got this laptop and a few months after I got it it was nothing but trouble. First the screen light kept flickering and would not come on sometimes, then the hard drive just went bonkers on me. Toshiba has not been much help either. So got a practically brand new laptop with a faulty screen and a busted hard drive. would not recommend it at all but I suppose everyone has their own opinion
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