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Toshiba Satellite A200 – my review (12 years later!)

I know this is obsolete now with the new technologies developing at the speed of light, but I think it’s only fair to give my assessment of this product. I bought it in 2007 for around a thousand dollars. It came with preinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium, so I could get right to work.

It has an Intel® Core™2 Duo T5250 processor, a hard disk of 120 GB, 5,400 rpm, 1 GB DDR2 RAM (667 MHz), a DVD Super Multi (Double Layer) unit, Intel® GMA X3100, 1280 x 800 screen display, glossy screen, microphone, 1.3 Mp camera, Wi-fi, Ethernet, 2 memory slots, LAN Ethernet, a lot of ports and a lot of other stuff that I don't remember right now.

After 12 years it still works just fine! I haven’t replaced the operating system, and I don’t know if I can, since the newer ones probably don’t match the other specifications (except maybe Linux), but I don’t need to. I have a Lenovo now, which I will review some other time, and I use the Toshiba for backup, in case my main machine crashes. I turned it on a week ago. I can still use it as a regular workstation but new software or antivirus programs don’t work on it, and Chrome can’t update – it’s only natural. The battery is dead, of course, but when I use it I plug it in. 

I know this review comes too late but I like to make comparisons between the way things were made back then and the quality they have nowadays.

So, all in all, I am very pleased with this piece of technology and next time I buy a laptop it will probably be a Toshiba, although they are a bit on the expensive side.

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