Toshiba - SATELLITE R-10

SATELLITE R-10 REVIEW

By: tarun.shankararaman November 6, 2007

Review:

This review is about Toshiba Satellite R-10 Notebook Plus Tablet computer. This is a desktop and tablet replacement model from Toshiba. The Satellite R-10 is manufactured in Japan. The built quality is solid and everything places smoothly on the Satellite R-10. The main benefit of this laptop is the options available using a laptop and same time a Tablet pc. The R-10 is available in Silver color with contrast of black color bottom side. The weight of this laptop is around 6 pounds.

This notebook is equipped with the Intel’s Latest Centrino Technology. The Processor speed of this machine is 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium M with 2 megabyte L2 Cache support.
256 Mb of ram included with the machine but it can be upgraded to 2 GB of ram. The ram is enough for most of the applications for an office or normal users but more ram needed to get the optimal speed of this notebook( Toshiba should Include 512 Mb of ram ). Well again this notebook is not designed for power users. So if you need optimum for resource eating software you should first try out the notebook before buying it.
*240 MB of ram is available for user application and windows, as 16 Mb of ram is utilized with the VGA adaptor.

The screen size is 14.1” that is a good screen for a laptop with tablet support notebook. This screen size also increase the weight and size of the notebook so its little heavy for carrying to different places.

A 40Gb HDD & DVD-CDRW is with the standard machine.

This machine supports lots of ports like it has 3 USB ports, 1 IEEE port, 1 Serial port too bad this machine doest have IR port which is now a more common port with the availability of different handsets & PDA available in the market with IR support. One PCMCIA TYPE II slot is available for use of any PCMCIA Cards.
One the other hand this machine does have an SD card reader which supports normal MMC / SD cards available in the market.