Toshiba Satellite A355-S6924 16.0-Inch Laptop Review

Good hardware configuration, esp. for the price; excellent for casual use. I would not recommend this machine to a tech savvy user for professional use.

It is the best compromise that I could find between price and features. Bluetooth drivers are in it but you have to add the chip ($5 dongle and taking up a USB port). The worst compromise is it comes with almost no software, but that seems to be standard practice in the industry now.

My complaints are the touch pad interface is intermittent making it sometimes too sensitive and other times I cannot drag the cursor anywhere, and the cursor 'disappears' when the memory is busy. The integrated graphics and dynamic RAM allocation can be smarter; I still have to manually clear cache to retain performance when using graphics-intensive applications.

Read the one-star review and the responses to it about the cursor jumping to different parts of the screen during typing. Those people say it's the touch pad picking up static from the thumb. If that's indeed the reason for that annoying error, then it's a design flaw. Other vendors' touch pads don't do this.

Buy it here now!