Toshiba Satellite A10-S128 Review
By
March 9th, 2004
Summary
The Satellite A10 is a perfect mobile solution offering the ideal balance between performance and affordability. At a very light weigh, and packaged with capacious HDD and fast Intel processor, this addition to the Satellite family is a powerful and stylish computing system. Sporting a metallic blue casing and featuring a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive with a brilliant TFT active matrix display make this notebook computer the perfect system for everything from word processing to watching DVDs, or even playing video games.
Specs
| General | |
| Designation | Small business,Corporate business |
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| Features | Keyboard lock,Power-on password,Locking device keyhole (cable lock) |
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| Recording Standard:Compliant Standards | APM,ACPI,VESA DPMS |
| Processor | |
| Processor manufacturer - Processor type - Clock speed | Intel Celeron 2 GHz |
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| Data bus speed | 400 MHz |
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| Chipset type | Intel 852GM |
| Memory | |
| RAM installed | 256 MB DDR SDRAM |
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| Max supported RAM | 1 GB |
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| Cache size - Cache type | 256 KB L2 cache |
| Storage | |
| Hard drive size - controller type - hard drive type | 30 GB IDE Portable |
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| CD / DVD type | CD-RW / DVD-ROM combo |
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| CD / DVD read speed | 24x (CD) / 8x (DVD) |
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| CD / DVD write speed | 24x |
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| CD / DVD rewrite speed | 10x |
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| 2nd CD / DVD drive | None |
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| Floppy drive | None |
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| Removable storage type | None |
| Input Devices | |
| Input device type - form factor | Keyboard,Touchpad |
| Physical Characteristics | |
| Weight | 6.2 lbs |
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| Dimensions (W x D x H) | 13 in x 11.5 in x 1.5 in |
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| Form factor | Portable |
| Display | |
| Display size - technology - form factor | 15 in TFT active matrix |
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| Max resolution | 1024 x 768 |
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| Color support | 24-bit (16.7M colors) |
| Video | |
| Max resolution (external) | 1920 x 1440 |
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| Graphics processor | Intel 852GM |
| Audio | |
| Audio input | None |
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| Audio output | Sound card |
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| Compliant standards | DirectMusic,DirectSound,DirectSound3D,Sound Blaster Pro |
| Networking / Telecom | |
| Networking device | Network adapter |
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| Data link protocol | Ethernet,Fast Ethernet |
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| Modem | 56 Kbps Fax / modem |
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| Analog Modulation Protocol | ITU V.92 |
| Expansion / Connectivity | |
| Expansion slot(s) total (free) | 1 (1 free) PC Card Type II,2 (1 free) Memory |
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| Port(s) total (free) / Connector type | 1 Parallel IEEE 1284 (EPP/ECP),1 Display / video VGA,2 USB,1 Network Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX,1 Modem Phone line,1 Microphone Input,1 Headphones Output |
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| Expansion bay(s) total (free) | None |
| Power | |
| Battery installed | 1 Lithium ion |
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| Mfr estimated battery life | 3.2 hour(s) |
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| Capacity | 4400 mAh |
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| Power supply device | External 75 Watt Power adapter |
| Environmental Parameters | |
| Humidity range | 20 - 80% |
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| Min operating temperature | 41 —F |
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| Max operating temperature | 95 —F |
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| Max operating altitude | 9840 ft |
| Operating System / Software | |
| OS provided | Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition |
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| Software included | AOL,Quicken 2001 Basic,Drivers & Utilities,Adobe Acrobat Reader,AT&T WorldNet Service,Norton AntiVirus 2002,Toshiba Custom Utilities,Microsoft Internet Explorer |