TOSHIBA L75D-A7283 17.3 Deals

By Ricardo F. Savaris -(Ca)

This review is from: TOSHIBA L75D-A7283 17.3" AMD Quad-Core A4-5000M Accelerated Processor 1.5GHz 6gb 750gb Entertainment Laptop (Personal Computers)

I was trying to buy a laptop to my sun. I ended up in the store and I bought this Toshiba without knowing anything. I was inclined to buy a HP laptop, but the difference of 40 bucks, I ended buy the toshiba. I got a 17.6"screen, instead of a 15'', a quad core 1.5MHz, instead of a pentium dual core, 6 GB of RAM, instead of 4GB, a 6 cell battery,instead of a 4 cell battery.

After opening the box, it was very nice, big screen, sturdy PC.

Keyboard with keypad for numbers, flat, with a space between the keys.

It has a HDMI out put and 2 3.0 USB, plus the usual stuff.

When I switched on, it reminded my iMac. I had to fill it up name, address, network, and after a while, I was facing the Windows 8 for the first time. It was not very friendly, but the whole thing is a front screen. If you get the desktop version and do the right click button, you will get familiar with the OS.

What was nice it the possibility to uninstall the bunch of things that come with, very easy.

then it was the moment to install the wi-fi printer. As you may know, printer are not made to print, but this time, it was installed before I noticed.

I deleted the Internet Explorer web browser, and installed Google Chrome. easy, great!

So far, it was a good experience, hope it will not freeze.

The only cons so far is the touch screen, that it does not have, but I did not buy with it, and honestly...we are the generation where touching the screen was a sin.

 By DFS (NH, USA)
This review is from: TOSHIBA L75D-A7283 17.3" AMD Quad-Core A4-5000M Accelerated Processor 1.5GHz 6gb 750gb Entertainment Laptop (Personal Computers)
Bought this laptop to replace my desktop. Wanted the larger screen, and I am very pleased with it. In fact, I have added an external monitor so I can have 2 workspaces on the same laptop.

It came with no manual and Windows 8. After trying hard for several days, I realized that my expectations were correct - Windows 8 is not for me. As a computer professional (30 years in the industry), I am very skilled with software - but not W8. It is very unfriendly to the user.

So I loaded Windows 7 on the system and have been extremely pleased with it. Aside from some software drivers, the move was painless. The driver downloads from Toshiba are only for W8, so I had to search. Found the perfect driver collection on ... the Lenovo support site, of all places (file name hsd607ww).

Would definitely buy another!

 By M. Mays - (USA)  
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This review is from: TOSHIBA L75D-A7283 17.3" AMD Quad-Core A4-5000M Accelerated Processor 1.5GHz 6gb 750gb Entertainment Laptop (Personal Computers)
This is my 3rd Toshiba Satelite (never paid more than $450) and they last about 4-5 years of daily use before keys wear and system performance gets sluggish, but a real workhorse laptop for nearly the bottom of the barrel pricing. The Quad-core processor and 6G RAM was worth the extra $60 dollars over the lowest base model. It zips along pretty good and is supposedly a game rated laptop although I'm not a gamer. The only complaint I have is the touchpad has a few too many bells and whistles I have yet to figure out - be careful where you let your fingers wander! I use an external mouse so that's not big a deal most of the time. Also still trying to figure out Win 8 but that's not Toshiba's fault. I just hit the App key and click on the Desktop tile to get back to the land of familiarity.