Review Product I Review Laptop I Toshiba Satellite C50-A-15L Review

At first look this lap top is not much - it's a little too chunky for my liking and the matt black finish not only lacks inspiration, but started to look grubby pretty quickly, but then looks aren't everything.

The real advantage of this system is what you get for the price, at around the £350 mark the 1TB hard drive gives plenty of space for media and software, the display is high quality (with no glare in my experience) and the graphics are pretty good, being able to run most of the older games I have and a few of the older ones if you drop down the resolution. It also has a DVD-RW to set it apart from other lap tops in this price band.

The keyboard is a little cramped, but is usable though you need to use the function key quite a bit for functions such as print screen and the space bar is tiny. The touchpad, though responsive is positioned a little further to the left than I am used to. The result is something that feels less than intuitive to begin with and takes a bit of getting used to, but given that time it is fine. I did end up buying a mouse however.

Over all you are getting a little better than what you pay for with this machine, but if you have the money I would go for something with a bit more umph.

Specs (Taken from Toshiba.co.uk)

Windows 8 64-bit (pre-installed) Intel® Pentium® 2020M processor
Toshiba HD non-reflective High Brightness display with 16 : 9 aspect ratio and LED backlighting
500 GB
Matt black finish with hairline pattern, black keyboard
4,096 (1x) MB
DDR3 RAM (1,600 MHz)
Intel® HD Graphics
maximum life : up to 3h30min (Mobile Mark™ 2012)
weight : starting at 2.3 kg
W x D x H : 380.0 x 242.0 x 30.8 (front) / 33.35 (rear) mm

Advantages:
cheap and cheerful 

Disadvantages:
Not for serious gamers or multi - media fiends 

Source : http://www.ciao.co.uk/Toshiba_Satellite_C50_A_15L__Review_6107799