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>Toshiba Satellite R15-S822 14.1" Tablet PC (Intel Pentium M (Centrino), 512 MB
RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) Review
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to the Toshiba Satellite R15-S822 14.1" Tablet PC (Intel Pentium M (Centrino),
512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) Review page:
I am a first
time tablet buyer and thus read everything written on tablets before buying one.
I am quite please with my choice.
I have owned an ECS desknote, Compaq Presario,
IBM notebooks and Gateway desktop earlier. Right now, I am using the R15 along
with my gateway desktop.
Several people wrote that it is probably better to
go with a slate rather than a hybrid but I wasn't sure how much will I use my
tablet functionality. It appears that I will use the R15 mostly as a tablet and
sometimes as a notebook. So, my next purchase will be a slate.
I have
such a poor handwriting that I cannot read it myself on some occasions. Thus I
am surprised that R15 could read my handwriting so well. I didnt check the speech
recognition function, but last time I looked at it, the technology hadn't advanced
much.
Overall, R15 is a sturdy machine with good wireless card (I didn't
have to set up the wireless). Battery life is good (and can stretch even more
than 4 hours on some settings). The pen is very easy to use and pleasant experience.
The drive makes a lot of sound but there is a silencer that can make the noise
disappear (I am not sure whether it changes the perfomrance). I was quite worried
about the cooling of the machine - I checked an averatec which was too hot to
handle. R15 manages the heat disspiation quite well, thought it reamins warm (not
hot like so many other machines).
I decided not to go with Averatec as
I read too many bad reviews and my last experinece with an unknown brand was extremely
bad. So, I decided to spend 350 bucks extra on a known brand.
I found
the performance of the machine to be at least as good as my 2.2Ghz desktop. I
simultaneuously ran word, outlook, excel and onenote and performnnce was still
good.
Amazon gave a great deal (and when i bought it was the cheapest
R15 around). They also shipped in just 3 days (although they said it woudl take
5-9 days). Buying at Amazon was a pleasure - as always.
The only thing
I dont like about R15 is the weight. Although, as a laptop the weigth is not problem,
when it is used as a slate holding it in one arm for long is difficult. But this
is a trade-off I made to have a larger screen, built in optical drive, and laptop
functionality. I am not disappointed with the trade-off.
Overall, I would
recommend this machine to someone who doesn't know how much he/she would use it
as a tablet and for first time tablet buyers. I would also recommend potential
laptop buyers to take a good look at this hybrid as it has amazing features (as
a tablet) that would change the way you work with your computer.
Buy
the Toshiba Satellite R15-S822 14.1" Tablet PC (Intel Pentium M (Centrino), 512
MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive)
