Toshiba Satellite A215 Series

71% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Very affordable ; Full-size keyboard

Frustrating volume control ; Slightly stiff mouse buttons

Inexpensive laptop could be a good second PC for the home. It has an ineffective volume wheel, though.

Bright Vibrant Screen ; Good Sound ; Cool and Quiet Operation ; Firm and Light Touch Keyboard ; Easy to Upgrade ; Simple Toshiba Applications ; Partitionable Recovery Discs

Slow 4200RPM Hard Drive ; Stiff and Clicky Touchpad Buttons ; Poor Screen Protection

The A215 comes with a one year parts and labor warranty standard which would include software support while the machine is under warranty.  There are upgrades available if you would like to have a longer warranty.  I didn't have the opportunity to call...

Inexpensive; sturdy construction yet sleek design; attractive display; includes extras such as a Labelflash optical drive and a Webcam; speakers provide passable audio.

AMD processor can't keep up with Intel competition; subpar battery life; heavily branded case.

The Toshiba Satellite A215-S7437 is a well-balanced budget laptop, but we wish its battery life were longer.

The big plus is it comes with Vista Ultimate and its cd so you don't have to send the laptop back to the manufacturer if something bad happened ; The performance is very good for a mobile pc ; It has an excellent air flow mechanism. You can safely put...

Battery life. It took only 35-45 min to drain the battery from 100% to 15% with 100% CPU load all the time, 1 usb connection, and wireless connection

Speed,memory,hard drive all above average plus Vista Ultimate.I have owned this laptop for 4 months and i am not using it at its' fullest potential. Performs beyond expectations

Battery life

Big hard drive, 64 bit ready nice design

No webcam buit-in. For the price, it would nice if it comes with 2gb of ram

fast, cheep, multimedia beast ; This laptop runs like a champ every day while i play America's army or Fear or BF2. i never lag on low graphics and get 50-70 fps on AA. because of it having 2gb of ram it feeds the video card more ram to run faster on...

if you like to play new games on full graphics, don't get this computer

It works great for most things I throw at it - Office 2007, Java programming, Photoshop CS3 ; Vista Home Premium is very nice, and I haven't had any problems with stability or performance. Vista is perfectly fine, but most people seem to forget how XP...

The hard drive is on the slow side, wish it had built-in Bluetooth, and the top of the case is a fingerprint magnet ; Battery life a lot to be desired - on power saving mode, I might get about 2 hours with wifi on ; It doesn't have a great GPU, but...