TOSHIBA Equium L40-156

price, performance, usability

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Very good quality for the money paid , very good working order looks like its straight off the shelf

no real bad points

Nice design. Not too heavy.

Windows Vista (XP is better) Screen not very bright.

does what I need it to do really well (music at 128kBps, college notes/text/documents, surfing internet wirelessly and emails). vista premium is a nice intuitive o/s. downloaded open office, made it virtually perfect as a portable alternative to my 3...

really poor battery life (my son was using the laptop in the car recently, playing a few flash based games and it lasted just over an hour on full charge, powersave mode). hard drive memory seems to be too small for much significant data storage. can...

Fast, reliable, excellent value for money

it is a great design

battery doesnt last very long

Its fast and easy to use, its wireless,and can do what i brought it for. Its was a reconditioned so the price was great and as its a second computer its ok for what i wanted it for.

#Not a big enough hard drive, no firewire ports,has an empty port for adding one which i have brought and added...not enough hard drive to edit large home video files.

Cheap! It was a referbished model, but there are no scratches on the laptop

The system runs a bit slowly, especially when new software is being installed. The Turn off Computer button is not actually to switch the device off though, it is to put it in sleep mode which I find a bit misleading. You have to click on the arrow...

DECENT BASIC LAPTOP SUITS ALL THE FAMILY FOR GENERAL SURFING ETC. MODERN DESIGN WITH LATEST VERSION OF WINDOWS INSTALLED AND A GOOD SIZED SCREEN - IF YOU ARE WANTING PORTABILITY THIS MODEL IS QUITE LARGE AND HEAVY BUT IS A GREAT SPACE-SAVING...

THE ONLY THINGS I WOULD FAULT THIS MODEL ON ARE THE BATTERY ONLY LASTS ABOUT 30 MINS WHEN FULLY CHARGED AND THE SOUND IS REALLY WHISPER QUIET SO ITS NOT TOO GOOD IF YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO MUSIC OR WATCH A MOVIE TRAILER. ITS STILL GOOD VALUE THOUGH - MY...

I haven't had any problems with this laptop since I have had it. Performance wise it is brilliant and can easily cope with multiple tasks with ease.

The speakers are a bit tinny and can't really cope with loud output.

good build quality,solid feel,good spec.

battery life ok butcould be better.