Toshiba - Satellite 15.6" Laptop - AMD A8-Series - 4GB Memory - 500GB Hard Drive - Jet Black

Alot of you might be looking on here for a legitimate gaming review. Well here you go. I bought a copy of this and the Elder Scrolls Anthology upon arrival. I have played Morrowind, Oblivion & I have been playing Skyrim. You can play Skyrim on medium settings. It works fine with little to no lag. I have also played: - Smite - League of Legends - Unturned - World of Warcraft - Dragon Nest - The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - Orion: Prelude - Amnesia - Far Cry 3 PROS: - Good amount of recent and previous titles able to play right from the beginning. - Fast speed - Quad Core A-8 Processor makes games run fast. - Good backlit 15 inch display - very functional keyboard CONS: - Touchpad is quite horrible - long startup time - Windows 8.1 - updates take a long time ADVICE: - Pick up a gaming mouse This is a VERY decent, VERY affordable gaming laptop. I have enjoyed it quite alot. It plays the games i want to play with little to no hassle. Of course this game isn't going to play brand new demanding titles like Far Cry 4, Titanfall, Dragon Age or high quality titles like that. But there are tons of games that work perfectly on this laptop. And at the price this is a steal. NOW if you'll excuse me I'm going back to playing Smite.

This is the best value if you get it for under $ 300 on sale. I wanted an Intel based one but the price premium was too much. Besides, AMD graphics are superior to the Intel HD graphics. This PC worked out of the box pretty good. Uninstalled Norton, adjusted track pad settings, un-installed many silly apps. CONS: No Hard Drive activity light. This thing is sorta flimsy plastic. Be careful with it. it cannot take too many hits. Removing battery requires removing screws on the bottom There's no easy way to install Windows 8.1 32 Bit or windows 7. With laptops of just 4GB ram , 32 bit is faster.

I really really wanted to like this laptop. It had good specs, should have performed well, but has several glowing flaws that even the store display models have. 1) Green screen playing videos. Yes, even the Windows DEMO video plays in green!! How poor is that. OK, easily resolved by installing something like K-lite codec pack but this is real sloppy out the box. 2) Wi-fi connection kept dropping. Totally frustrating and almost unuseable. Fix involved installing new drivers for the wi-fi and disabling the power saving feature that was being too aggressive and turning the wi-fi off to save power lol. Once again, fixable but real sloppy out the box. 3) The trackpad. Good lord. I have NEVER in all my years of using laptops experienced a worse trackpad. It freezes, refuses to respond, and dissappears for minutes at a time on occasion (and yes, the trackpad was activated). At this point, as the laptop was for my wife we'd both had enough with a brand new laptop that can't even get the basics right. 4) Other observations and notes: There are around 4GB of updates from the get-go... I am certain people complained it was slow due to it downloading in the background and them not realizing it. AFTER all the updates were done/applied and update turned off, this machine still randomly froze, refused to respond even to key presses and just felt glitchy. It has relatively nice hardware for the price... not understanding why it performed so badly in exceptionally light usage. After reading countless other reviews of this and other similar Toshiba laptop, I happily returned it for store credit (outside the 14 days return period unfortunately). Replaced it with a Touch screen HP i3 with 6GB, and that has been an absolute dream to use for my wife. Totally flawless experience for her after setting it up :-) I do not recommend the Toshiba Laptop,

Great dependable laptop for anyone. Simple to use.

This computer is completely unstable. Since the day i took it out of the box it has been crashing {Blue Screen Error} SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (atikmdag.sys)

within two weeks my cord broke and best buy nor toshiba would replace it at no cost.

Needed a new laptop after my Acer crashed - did a lot of research on what to buy. Honestly not sure if I could have found a better computer for the price. It has everything my family needs for daily e-mailing, book-keeping, schoolwork, internet use, and pretty great graphics for video and gaming. Only suggestion - if you are going to use your music player a lot, you may want to buy some portable speakers for a bit better sound quality.

This my second Toshiba Laptop and it's a solid as my first one. Long life on it's Lithium-Ion Battery, Great Display and Keyboard (although I still prefer the wireless external mouse I bought to the mouse pad and buttons built in). It took a lot of retraining to learn Windows 8.1 after using Windows XP so many years and I understand that Windows 10 is around the corner in 2015 with similar layout of operating system functions that Windows XP and Windows 7 had due to popular demands! The computer has a great readable screen, plenty of memory, plenty of storage at 500 GB and a DVD or CD + and - player/writer, plus an HDMI port to hook up to your widescreen 1080i Big Screen TV as a second monitor, and Speakers built-in or headphone jack with microphone input. All this for $299.99 on sale the best buy in comparison to so many laptops out there and lower cost than many tablets!