T o s h i b a M i n i N B 2 0 5 N 3 2 5 B N 1 0 . 1 I n c h S a b l e B r o w n N e t b o o k 9
Small enough to throw in a purse or bag, the affordable, super-compact 10.1-inch Toshiba mini NB205 netbook--which weighs just under 3 pounds--is designed with smart features like a full-sized...read more
$399.99
$399.99
$399.99
Average Customer Rating
4 out of 5 |
Product Features
- 1.66GHz Intel N280 Atom Processor
- 1GB DDR2 533MHz Memory
- 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive, Integrated Wi-Fi
- 10.1 LED Backlit Display, 1024x600 native resolution (WSVGA)
- Microsoft Windows 7 Starter (32 bit), *9 Hours of Battery Life
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Product Details
Brand: ToshibaModel: PLL23U-00Q01C
UPC: 883974308064
Product Code: PLL23U-00Q01C
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Best Netbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Tried a few netbooks and the Toshiba seems the most substancial–though slightly heavier. It has a laptop feeling with a better keyboard and mouse pad. Phenomenally portable. Battery a little less than 9 hrs, but, certainly 7 or so with heavy processing use. The Toshiba telephone service was also great running through some of the windows7 idiosyncrasies and the Toshiba accessories. I totally recommend this portable computer.
THIS IS A PERFECT NETBOOK
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I read the article in consumers report that rated this netbook so high and ordered it for my wife for her birthday. She loves the unit and she and all her girl friends thinks that having one in pink it just perfect. It has all the new systems and udates that are now out. the nine hour battery life is the longest in the industry. You can’t go wrong with this unit. The delivery was fast and the packing and company service perfect.
Students! E-mailers! Great Netbook for Common Uses!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought this for taking notes in college. It is light, looks nice, and has enough battery to last an entire day of classes. This is a major “plus” in my opinion. Toshiba should load MS Office though. I have two complaints: the mouse pad and buttons. The mouse locks up sometimes so I can’t use the touchpad. It seems to correct itself in a few seconds though. This is not a huge problem but is annoying when in class. The second is the rather loud mouse button. When you click it, people ten or 15 feet away can hear it. It’s makes a “clunk” sound. The screen is colorful, it’s pretty fast, and the keyboard is silver and large enough for a man’s bigger fingers – you can see the keyboard in low light and there are less errors when typing like other netbooks I tried. Overall, it’s worth the money and will not disappoint in most areas needed by a student or busy e-mailer. I’d recommend it to anyone. (I connect a mouse sometimes when doing alot of cursor movement.)
Customer Support
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Disappointed in the customer support I received on this purchase. I believe that an option to upgrade Windows 7 Starter to Home Premium or higher should have been offered at time of purchase. Thw Win 7 Starter does not even allow you to add a personal screen saver. I have talked with a Rep from DataVision but communication went silent when I asked them to pay for the return shipping expense. The other features of the computer are great. Too bad we could not come to an agreement on a software change.
Great Battery, Lousy Speaker
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I’ve had my brown NB205 for about a month. First of all, looks very cool, I love the style of this netbook. The battery life seems to be as advertised. I never have actually timed it, but a full charge of the battery will easily last me 4 or 5 days using it for a few hours in the evening. It also charges quickly when plugged back in. No complaints with the battery.
Windows 7 starter is very stripped down. Out of the box it actually looks a little strange not to see tons of programs in the start menu or tons of icons on the desktop, but really I’m happy about this. My primary purpose for this is to get online quickly and not to have to worry about battery life, and windows 7 starter is fine for internet browsing. I like that there’s not much on the computer, and I don’t plan on adding too much either. For people that care, you can’t change the desktop background wallpaper to your own picture, at least not out of the box. I think there are 3rd party programs that allow you to do this in 7 starter, but I don’t care enough to bother with it.
Typing is pretty easy, and the screen really doesn’t seem all that small, so functionally I think this is a great netbook.
Now for the negative (and it’s a big one if this is important to you), the speaker is horrible, and it is located in a horrible spot. It’s located on the underside of the computer on the bottom right. If you have the computer on your lap, the speaker is almost inaudible, it’s not much better when it’s sitting on a hard surface. If the sound is important to you and you don’t want to or can’t always wear headphones then don’t buy this netbook. This isn’t a concern for me, and everything else about this is great, so I have no complaints.
The bad speaker is all that kept me from giving it 5 stars.
Toshiba Netbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
It was purchased as a gift by my grandchildren for their mother. They had ordered a Kindle but returned it when I pointed out all of Toshiba’s features. I had thoroughly researched the item after it was highly recommended over Kindle by several friends. One of the selling features was the 9 hour battery life. I was amazed to find it on sale at Amazon and extremely pleased to have free shipping. It even arrived a day before the expected delivery date! My daughter just loves it and is constantly talking about all of its features–especially the convenience of internet access. So far there has not been one thing negative about it. I highly recommend this product as well as Amazon.com!
After a hiccup …it runs well
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The second time I tried to boot the NB205 notebook, it wouldn’t start. It had to go in for repair, and was returned in a week’s time in perfect operating order. Now that it’s running, (after this initial hiccup), I find it a delight to work with. The glossy screen has beautiful, rich colors, unlike the very nice Asus notebook I’d been using ’til now, which has a matte screen, and whose color rendition simply is nowheres as nice. Since I use my netbook to offload, process and classify digital images, the quality of the screen is quite important to me. The glossy screen, whose shortcoming is that it can, according to some, suffer from reflections, is nonetheless my screen of choice for the richness and accuracy of its color rendition and richness of its dark tones. I simply do not find the glossiness to be a problem, in case that is one of the concerns that you might have.
The keyboard is pleasant, Windows 7 works like a charm (and even better since I boosted the RAM to the full 2GB that the machine will accept).
Battery life is outstanding, and I can go the whole day without connecting to a power source. It’ll be nice to have this netbook on my next transatlantic flight in a few weeks.
Esthetically, it’s an attractive machine; it’s the first brown computer that I have owned, and I must say that the textured brown lid makes it pleasant to hold and is not a fingerprint magnet. It’s well balanced, has an agreeable shape and feels well built. Everything about this machine oozes quality !
The initial problem (that it wouldn’t boot after just one use) is something I will not hold against this machine. All computer makers have their share of DOA or malfunctionning machines; this was simply the luck of the draw, as far as I’m concerned.
If I can cite any shortcomings of the NB205, these would be that 1) it has WiFi B and G, but not the much faster and more recent N specification, and 2), should you want to upgrade the hard drive, you’ll need a very tiny Torx (#6) screwdriver to open the hatch. These are not easy to find locally.
Now that my netbook is running, I have no doubts that it will serve me well in the coming years.
Toshiba NB205-325BL
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I really checked out the options before I bought a netbook. I already have two other laptops (a 14.1″ and a 15.6″), but as I found out flying back and forth to California this past summer, they weren’t as portable as I would have liked and the battery life wasn’t great at all, especially on a 6 hour flight so the ultra-portability and long battery life was very important and was my primary motivation for wanting one of these.
What impressed me the most about the Toshiba was the styling, the keyboard, the screen, and of course the battery life.
The styling is hands down the best one out there. I’ve seen others that I liked, but the majority of them have that glossy case that show fingerprints and smudges very easily. The Toshiba case is both sturdy and textured and doesn’t show smudges at all.
The keyboards on the other models were good, but I found that I kept hitting multiple keys and the character that would show up was never the one I wanted. The raised keys on the Toshiba keyboard is great. The spacing of the keys is great eliminates me hitting multiple keys at once. I’ve seen other people have said that the keys are a little slippery and at first I thought the same thing, but I got used to it very quickly.
The screen is what really caught my eye. The screens on the other models I was looking at looked good, but the screen on the Toshiba had considerably better colors. It was bright and the colors definitely seemed more vivid whereas the colors on the other screens definitely appeared to be more dull. Even when using Toshiba’s eco Utility, the screen retains its rich colors.
The battery life on this netbook has been INSANE in comparison to it’s full-size counterparts. It does take a long time charge the battery, but I usually recharge it overnight so to me, it’s no big deal. Since I bought this netbook, I have consistently gotten 9 hours out of each charge and in most cases can go two days between charges.
Windows 7 Starter was disappointing and at first, the 1GB of RAM definitely caused some issues when multitasking, but I upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium and upgraded to 2GB of RAM and the performance is considerably better. Don’t get me wrong, it was good before, but it’s awesome now. Yes, it ultimately brought the total cost to $500, but it was totally worth it.
I knew going into this that I wanted a netbook so I could check emails, surf the web, stuff like that. I knew that they weren’t going to be as powerful as the full-sized notebooks so I didn’t expect a powerhouse and if that’s what you want, don’t get one, but for what I specifically planned on using this for, it’s PERFECT.
As a side note, yes, the tiny mono speaker kind of sucks, but again, for what I bought this netbook for, I can live with that. I have used Skype quite a bit since I bought this and the speaker has been reasonable to hear out of (although I have to mute the TV to hear it which, truth be told, I probably should do anyway if I’m talking to someone). Computer sounds, videos, etc, again, the little tiny speaker is reasonable so I’m good.
Fun Little Computer
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Great size! The portability makes this computer easy to use anywhere, anytime. It takes a little getting used to looking at such a small screen. I like the netbook design and Windows 7, but HATE the fact that it’s only Windows 7 Starter. Still, I’d rather have Windows 7 Starter than XP. Battery life seems very good.
My dream netbook
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
What first attracted me to this Toshiba netbook is the color….being brown my favorite. As I explored the different reviews and not to mention being considered as one of the top ten notebooks for 2009, I decided to get one from Amazon for myself. I had to ask a friend from Hawaii to bring it home to the Philippines. My netbook did not fail me. I love the long battery hours and normal keyboard. It’s portability being super light weight is a plus. I never had problems with the wifi connection as others do. Though I plan to add 1gb of ram to boost its boot up time but other than that it’s great. I would recommend it to anybody who intends to buy a netbook.