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Toshiba Tecra A5

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alaScore 77

18 reviews

Nov, 2024

alaTest has collected and analyzed 18 reviews of Toshiba Tecra A5. The average rating for this product is 3.6/5, compared to an average rating of 4.0/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Views about the battery and usability are overall positive. The performance and portability are also mentioned favorably, but many are negative about the size and sound.

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Toshiba Tecra A5 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 77/100 = Good quality.

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Expert review by : Carla Thornton (pcworld.com)

Toshiba Tecra A5-S416 Laptop

 

The Toshiba Tecra A5-S416 is the sensible shoe of notebooks. The business version of the $1349 Toshiba Satellite M55-S325, it's equipped with a slower 1.6-GHz Pentium M 730 processor, a CD burner (instead of a DVD burner), a 40GB (instead of 100GB)...

Lots of features for the price

Uncomfotable mouse buttons

The A5's battery life of 3:05 in our tests was a pretty good. Its speed should be adequate for undemanding applications. The A5's WorldBench 5 score of 74 places it in the company of other notebooks with a 1.6-GHz Pentium M processor and 512MB of...

Oct, 2005
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Expert review by : Carla Thornton (pcworld.com)

Toshiba Tecra A5-S416 Notebook (1.6GHz Pentium M 730, 512MB DDR, DVD/CD-RW, Windows XP Pro, 14" TFT)

 

Artwork: Rick Rizner

Lots of features for the price

Uncomfotable mouse buttons

A plain-jane business portable that's rich in features but suffers from uncomfortable mouse buttons.

Oct, 2005
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Expert review by : Stephanie Bruzzese (cnet.com)

Toshiba Tecra A5

 

Light case; four USB 2.0 ports.

Very loud keyboard; petite mouse buttons.

The Tecra A5 offers sufficient performance and a decent array of features for most business users, but you can find less expensive options.

Sep, 2005
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Expert review by : Stephanie Bruzzese (cnet.com.au)

Toshiba Tecra A5

 

Light case; four USB 2.0 ports.

Very loud keyboard; petite mouse buttons.

The Tecra A5 offers sufficient performance and a decent array of features for most business users, but you can find less expensive options.

Sep, 2005
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Rebate Takes Forever

 

Nice little rig. does everything I need it to. Great buy at Newegg

Don't much care for the extra apps (which I dont use) that take up my hard drive space and memory. I really hate that it takes 16 weeks to get my rebate when my Dell took 3 weeks

Apr, 2006
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Decent Comp

 

Go with the ACER, its a much better deal.

This overall is a good computer. But for less money the best buy is the Acer Aspire 1640 series, bigger screen(15.4"), bigger HDD(80 GB 5400 RPM), more and faster memory(512MB DDR2-533), DVD burner(8X DVD+/-RW)

None, just not the best bang for the buck

Feb, 2006
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Tecra A5

 

Works great once you put 512mb of ram in. Have no problems with it. Great for the price

The ram! Comes with a lot of programs I don't need, like AOL

Feb, 2006
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Highly Recommended

 

This is an excellent laptop for someone looking for a thin / light basic notebook. It may not have the latest bells and whistles like DDR2, an SATA hard drive, or a DVD burner, but the excellent price makes up for it. I wanted a lightweight widescreen...

Lightweight, fast, excellent price. Docking station support. WinXP Pro. Good battery life (2.5hrs normal, 3hrs if I am really conservative.)4 USB ports (instead of 2 or 3, which is more common.) Built-in memory card reader

Not enough memory, silver lid seems to mar easily. Speakers are very sub-par, likely because this is marketed more as a business-class machine, so you'll probably want to buy a nice set of headphones

Dec, 2005
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

good

 

i like the Pentium m740 and a good solution from the graphic card. so the computer is fast and picture is clear

only 256mb, should spend other 50 to buy a 512 momory card ; come with a lot of toshiba program which i dont use. spend a lot time to delete them. as other said, the speaker is not too good

Dec, 2005
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laptop guy

 

best deal for laptop yet my first laptop m pretty happy w/ it best of all new egg got it to me in 2 days.

for a sub 1k laptop come with a pentium m cpu and w/ window xp pros sp2

none but if so would be memory recomended buy a 512mb stick along as you buy this laptop

Dec, 2005
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