Can anyone recommend Toshiba laptops ?

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I'm looking for a new laptop for home use and have found a half decent Toshiba on Amazon, I've only ever had and used Acer/Dell/Fujitsu laptops so wondered what Toshibas are like.

Spec wise I'm after a 17" screen, Core i5 costing no more than £500 and it has to come from Amazon (I have vouchers) before anyone starts suggesting alternatives

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Thanks for all the input, it looks like there are more positive then negative experiences so I may well end up getting one.

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gpo746 said:

Glens link doesn't work for me but after looking at his message I think he means this:

http://pcgamerhome.com/gaming-laptops-under-1000/

As per my 1st post, it needs to have a 17“ screen, be ~£500 and available from Amazon...

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gpo746 said:

Now now I was only linking to the link that didn't work.
Just go and buy the bleedin thing you wanted info on it will probably last you years n years

Sorry, wasn't meaning to single you out - several others suggested solutions outside of my spec

As it happens, I may be stretching the budget a bit - the aluminium Toshiba with Nvidia gpu has taken my fancy.

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The Acer that this laptop will replace lasted me 5 years and had a really good keyboard and track pad, the only thing letting it down was the AMD processor which always ran fairly hot and sucked the battery dry. I put Ubuntu on it as soon as it arrived and will probably do the same with the next one as I'm not a fan of Windows.

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Polarbert said:

I don't know which Toshiba you've been looking at, but the one I got in December is a 17 inch with the Nvidia GPU. Its an S70 I think. The one that is part aluminium and not completely aluminium.

If you want to pick my brains about it feel free.

Mine has 12gb RAM, 500gb HDD, Intel i5 processor, and the 2gb Nvidia GT740M.

This one, which does sound a lot like yours. I guess the main question would be 'would you buy it again ?'

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Polarbert said:

Yep that looks very similar. Mine has a smaller hard drive but larger amount of RAM just due to it being 'custom' made.


I would definitely. I've had for nearly half a year and its been great. I love the fact I can plug it into my 50 inch LCD and extend the screen. I've been playing Wolfenstein: The New Order on it and it looks great (720p, with settings near full)

The only problem I'd say is that the Satellite logo came off one time when I used the laptop with wet hands, and the touchpad has been different to what I've been used to. But now I've got the hang of its very good. (the left and right mouse buttons are part of the touchpad so it can catch you out a bit)

I got the backlit keyboard which is brilliant. Even though I can touch type it just helps sometimes.

I didn't get the 1080p screen, as I didn't believe it was worth an extra $100 to what I paid. Resolution at 1600x900 is brilliant and I've had no problems.

It feels well made, and I haven't had any major issues with it so far. The keyboard stopped working once for an unknown reason, but I just reset it in the BIOS settings and had no bother after that.

I paid $800 which I thought for the specification was a fantastic deal. I looked at other laptops but for the price this one came out on top.

I've been very impressed with what games can run on this as well. I had NBA 2K14 playing on it which looks good (although annoyingly I've heard the PC version is a port of the X360/PS3 version, and not the fancy XBONE/PS4 version)

I can run Battlefield 4 single player at 25fps with pretty good settings. I've also been playing Far Cry 3 with good results as well.

Thanks for that, you've pretty much decided me on that one now

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Polarbert said:

Glad to help.


A good little bonus, is if you download the Origin client, you can purchase Battlefield 3 for free. Then download it to your new laptop to test it out.

I've been playing a bit of multiplayer on it and can run most things on high or ultra and it looks pretty damned nice.

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/buy/battlefield...

Here is the link, its only free for another couple of days. But you'd just to need to 'purchase it' and then download it later whenever you liked.

Done thanks

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Polarbert said:

Has it turned up yet? Getting on okay with it?

Haven't bought it yet, but still planning to.

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Still no laptop I've been keeping an eye on a few different ones and have made a few changes to my original spec, 15" screens are now back on the table as long as they are full HD (1920x1080). I'm prepared to spend a bit more too, upto £700 now but it does still have to come from Amazon as most of the cost will be met with gift vouchers. Bearing this in mind, does anyone have anything bad to say about HP machines as on the face of it, this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/HP-15-j142na-15-6-inch-Notebook-Natural/dp/B00KU2K0RG/ref=sr_1_18?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1410289815&sr=1-18#productDetails) would seem to be a very good machine at a very reasonable price.

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sgrimshaw said:

HP would be at the very bottom of my list!

My choice would come from Asus, Lenovo, or Toshiba (probably in that order too).

So what put you off HP?

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The HP went up in price, so I've pretty much settled on the Lenovo Z710 which seems to get some very good reviews and is fairly high spec for the price.

Thanks for all the help

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Just to resurrect this thread, I finally made my choice:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-Y50-70-15-6-inch-Ul...

The £100 off + another 20% cashback from Lenovo made it too good to ignore. Coupled with paying for half of it with my gift vouchers it means I'm getting a very high spec laptop for very little money

Thanks for all the recommendations on this thread, I probably wouldn't have looked at a Lenovo otherwise.

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