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Review
Created:
December, 1999
Toshiba Satellite 2060CDS
Notebook Computer
By Lowell Conn, Cyberwalker
Media Syndicate
At first glance, the Toshiba Satellite 2060CDS looks like any other new laptop on the notebook market. It has a good-sized, if unspectacular, screen, good internal specs bundled with an adequate amount of software and all of the appropriate hardware extras.
Then there is the price, which catapults this unit into a top runner for your small business needs. The Toshiba Satellite 2060CDS, running on a brisk 366 megahertz AMD-K6-2 processor, retails for an astounding $1250. Mobility has never been cheaper.
The price just does not feel real, but it is. When you walk out of your computer store you will undoubtedly feel like you've committed highway robbery.
The 2060CDS is one of Toshiba's latest entries into the low-price laptop sector, a market other manufacturers will surely soon enter.
Words cannot adequately describe how great a value this computer is. The 366 megahertz processor doesn't run as quickly as its Intel equivalents, but does run at a happily swift rate.
It also has 32 megs of RAM, which can be expanded up to a very adequate 160 megs. Then there is a 4.3-gig hard drive and an attached CD-ROM.
Also featured are a great sounding Toshiba stereo sound system, microphone, a v.90 data/fax modem and expansion slots for PC cards.
Toshiba, thankfully, also thought out the extras. The mouse is not the annoying finger pad that is found on plenty of recent notebooks. Toshiba relies instead on the much more accurate and quickly learned
AccuPoint device. This reviewer has used every possible pointing device created for the notebook market and the AccuPoint scores highest.
Also included in the bundled, installed software is
Toshiba's Fn-esse program, which allows users to configure the keyboard to create any array of shortcut keys. Those who have grown used to a mouse and might struggle with the switch to the AccuPoint will find the Fn-esse program's options a welcome relief.
The unit is light, weighing in at 6.8 pounds with battery, internal CD-ROM and floppy disk drive considered. What it gains in lower weight it does not loses in durability. While it is not recommended to drop the unit for test purposes, it feels securely constructed and does not appear ready to fall apart within a year's time.
The low price does show itself in the screen size, which, at 12.1 inches, is not horrendously small but has plenty of unused border space surrounding it. The contrast and brightness seem perfectly adaptable to all environments, however, and needed very minimal tinkering when moving from well-lit to darker environs.
When you are a budget-conscious small business owner looking for value in computing, it comes down to price. Toshiba's 2060CDS comes through on both counts.
Reviewer's
rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Comments: Great value, great price. Screen size could use a boost.
Price: $1,250 US, $1,850 Canadian
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