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Average Rating: Rating: - The best at this price point I was looking for a decent laptop for under $1000 and this Toshiba model fit the bill perfectly. I wanted a laptop with CD-RW and DVD drives, a minimum of 256MB RAM and 30GB hard drive space. Obviously, I was not looking for a professional laptop that is super-thin and light. I was looking for something that can be a decent replacement for a desktop without paying $2000 for the privelege. This model has a very fast processor (it is Celeron, but if you are like most computer users, anything over 1 GHz is overkill!), pretty spacious hard drive and the ability to record CD's and watch DVD's. If you are into games that require 256MB of video RAM, this is not the laptop for you, but I watch DVD's on this laptop (on just battery power) and it plays back flawlessly. The laptop also comes with MS Works software, software for creating CD's, WinDVD and other goodies. Overall, a steal for under $1000 (you can get it for under $1000 even though the list price is over $1100 right now). It also has a huge 15" screen as opposed to the 14" screens that most low-end laptops have. The main disadvantages of the laptop that I see are: (1) no serial port. This can be taken care of by using up one of the 3 USB ports and a USB to serial conversion cable. (2) The maximum resolution of the screen is 1024x768 (I am used to 1280x1024, so this is a bit of a pain in the neck). (3) Only 2.5 hours of battery run time. (4) On the heavy side at almost 8 lb (including battery, not including charger, adapter etc.). Rating: - Awesome This machine is awesome for its price! I bought it 2 weeks ago and I'm very satisfied so far. Although the 1415-S173 features a Celeron, the 'lite' chip from Intel, it has a full 256 KB of L2 cache so its performance nearly matches those of the far more expensive Pentium 4 chips (since until 'Northwood' core arrived, P4s featured 256 KB L2 caches). Besides, the processor is a mobile battery-friendly chip. The laptop's hard drive is pretty fast and spacious; its DVD/CDRW unit works flawlessly and is among the less noisy units I've ever seen. It burns CDs at a 24X speed! DVD or DIVX reproduction is as smooth as a silk (not to mention DIVX encoding, is fast!). Ok, it has 'only' 16 MB of video memory but' those are real MB, not shared ones, so their performance is a way better if compared to most laptop graphics within the price range. Also, the graphics chip, which is what really makes the difference, is a speedy GeForce 4 Go 420! (NOT an ATI M6-C). This machine shines in games (they look gorgeous in its huge and bright 15' screen), even in some newer ones like NFS 6 or Unreal Tournament 2003 (maybe it doesn't matches the standards of high end desktop graphics of course, but those titles were still perfectly playable). My only complaint about this machine is its weight' you should have strong shoulders if you want to carry it around. However, I still give it an A+ Rating: - Solid laptop at a fair price. While there are certainly cheaper models available, you get what you pay for. I went to Best Buy with the intention of buy a $[money] laptop that met my minimum needs. However, after my wife adding her specifications of wanting a floppy drive and CD burner, I found the Toshiba 1415 as a best buy with a larger screen and a slightly faster CPU. Overall I have found the Satellite to meet and slightly exceed my expectations. My only gripe is finding out information about Wi-Fi from Toshiba is like pulling teeth. They would not even tell me the part number for the Wi-Fi Mini PCI card so I could order one without traveling to another state to have the card installed. However, with persistance I found on the web, any Orinoco Mini PCI card would work, and finally ended up ordering Toshiba part number PA2314P04. Toshiba calls it a "kit", but it is just the bare card with no drivers or installation instructions. Fortunately, it is fairly easy to install, and the card works as plug & play under Windows XP. The only thing I had to guess at is which plug to use for the white attenna wire, and which for the black wire. I also purchased the extended warrentee from best buy, since they told me the average life expectancy of a battery is a little over a year, and they cover the replacement of the battery under the warrentee. I am still torn as to whether it was really wise to spend $[money] of a warrentee on a $[money] laptop. Bill

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