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Satellite A135-S2386
The Satellite A135 Series is economically priced with technology you'll value. Systems feature the latest in Intel® processors for optimal performance. There's big memory for all your mp3s, work, picture and video files. All systems feature an 15.4" diagonal WXGA TruBrite® display adding the WOW factor to games and movies! Toshiba's DVD SuperMulti optical drive (select models) reads and writes up to 11 formats, including DVD-RAM which acts like an optical HDD! (DVD-RAM media required). High speed wireless LAN (802.11b/g) lets you work cable free. No more searching for phone jacks, network cables, or plugging in special cards. Connect easily to networks in your home, office, and in wireless LAN hotspots at airports, hotels and coffee shops.
Average Customer Rating:
3.6 out of 5(48 Reviews)
Rating Snapshot
(48 reviews)
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38 of 48 (79%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for Satellite A135-S2386
Review 1 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
3
out of 5
Good product.,December 21, 2007
By driverfrom Springfield, MO
Features:
3
out of 5
Performance:
2
out of 5
Battery Life:
2
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"Not a bad pc for the money. First thing I did was up ram to 2 gig. New needed to before bought it. Even with that was still less $ than most others, and budget was important. Would rate performance a 4 after increased ram. Don't like Vista but all have it now. I would buy another if needed one and my guess is will replace with another Toshiba when time comes."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 2 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
3
out of 5
Lacking memory,November 9, 2007
By TomPfrom Kuwait
Features:
3
out of 5
Performance:
2
out of 5
Battery Life:
3
out of 5
Price-Value:
3
out of 5
"Bought the machine because my other laptop crashed and I needed an interim replacement. It served it's purpose for that, but running Vista with only 512GB of memory is an experience in slow motion (ran better when I added another 1GB chip). Overall, it performed adequately after the memory was added. Highly recommend you do not sell this machine without at least 1GB of memory, and preferably 2GB. With only 512MB it is not a usable machine due to the slowness. Weight, equipment, etc. was okay as was bundled software, although trying to activate MS Office was another "experience" I'd rather not have. Sold the machine to a friend who found it adequate for his use."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 3 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
4
out of 5
Good computer.,November 9, 2007
By pworley28from Buffalo, Mo.
Features:
3
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Battery Life:
2
out of 5
Price-Value:
4
out of 5
"Good computer for the price. Needs more memory. Slow starting up and slow shutting down. When my spyware or anti-virus scans I can't do anything else. Other than the memory it's a good computer."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Newbie
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 4 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
The PC is good, but not VISTA,November 9, 2007
By RickyDfrom FL
Features:
1
out of 5
Performance:
1
out of 5
Battery Life:
3
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"The computer is great, but unfortunetely it came w/ VISTA; so, it makes it run very slow to start and to close and if you are running an antivirus program--forget it- everything stops running. I had to order an upgrade to increase memory. Normally, it takes a few months to upgrade a computer, but this one; off the bat, I had to order a 1GB upgrade; Then, I learned that it takes 2GB to run ViSTA - Someone didn't plan. Another issue is the program, I have to buy Word, Excel, and PP? no, is not right. I am very unhappy with it and disappointed."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
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Review 5 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
4
out of 5
November 8, 2007
By Pramodfrom Phoenix
Features:
4
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Battery Life:
5
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"strongly recommend upgrading the memory to 2Gig."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 6 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
4
out of 5
Very Cool,November 8, 2007
By squarlfrom Tulsa Okla.
Features:
3
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Battery Life:
2
out of 5
Price-Value:
3
out of 5
"I have a brother in-law who is I.T. When I decided to buy one (computer), I went to him and asked what would be a good laptop to buy. He informed me that they were all basically alike, that I should shop around to see what kind of deal I could come up with. So I shopped. And the best deal I could dome up with for the money I had was your product. I use it for school and it is perfect for what I need. I like things when they are easy to use, and I am having a blast with this one. On a personal note my brother in-law happens to think you guys have great product also, he is why I bought this one."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Newbie
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
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Review 7 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
4
out of 5
Not bad, needs some help though...,November 8, 2007
By NavyDocfrom Tampa
Features:
4
out of 5
Performance:
2
out of 5
Battery Life:
2
out of 5
Price-Value:
4
out of 5
"I purchased my Satellite second hand but in brand new shape. My first impression was MAN IS THIS THING SLOW!!!!! Then I got into the properties and realized it only had half the RAM MS reccomends to run Vista. A minimum of 1 gig is what vista needs to run smooth, so I boosted to 2 gig. Now it runs fine with no problems at all. If I had to say anything bad about the laptop it would be the battery life is extremely short, even with the network card turned off. Make sure you take your power cord with you if you go somewhere that you would use it for more than an hour. And I haven't figured out how to get rid of the annoying flash card tabs at the top of the screen. Otherwise for the price it is a fantastic product. I bought a second one for a family member."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 8 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
4
out of 5
Outstanding value,November 8, 2007
By WEH1from Jefferson, GA
Features:
4
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Battery Life:
3
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"Solid performer, purchased as a bargain interim unit, against the typical MicroSoft developmental issues with Windows Vista. But- I don't think I'll replace this unit until it's worn out, and that may be a while. My wife just stopped using a Satellite she bought in '95 that still works just fine."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 9 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
Veeeeeeery slow laptop it need windows xp,October 21, 2007
By jdennis17from BOLIVIA
Features:
2
out of 5
Performance:
1
out of 5
Battery Life:
3
out of 5
Price-Value:
1
out of 5
"Veeeeeeery slow laptop it need windows xp"
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 10 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
4
out of 5
Not Bad, Could Be Better,October 19, 2007
By jahrnfrom Salt Lake City, UT
Features:
4
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Battery Life:
2
out of 5
Price-Value:
4
out of 5
"I picked up this laptop at a good price. The first thing I noted was that the darn thing had Vista Home loaded on it. With only 512MB of RAM, that isn't nearly enough to run Vista. It was slow to start, slow to close, and slow to do most anything that required RAM. My anti-virus program runs scans, and when it did, I couldn't do anything else. All the RAM was dedicated to the scan. So I had to upgrade the RAM very soon, due to Vista. The battery life is not good either. Toshiba offers an 8-cell battery with better life, but the laptop ships with only a 6-cell. Don't care for the Toshiba utilities either. They pop up at the top of the screen (I don't why what I'm doing to make them pop up), and I can't easily get them to go away. Anyway, after adding a laptop mouse (hate touchpads), upgrading the RAM and turning off the Google sidebar (loads by default and slows the system down terribly!), it's a pretty decent computer. Still not happy with only 80GB HD, but I'll live with it. The wireless antenna works well and overall I'm happy with it. I wouldn't have wanted to pay full price for it, though. It just isn't powerful enough for the Vista OS. I'd been happier if it shipped with XP Pro."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 11 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
3
out of 5
first laptop ever,September 25, 2007
By memafrom racine, wisconsin
Features:
3
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Battery Life:
3
out of 5
Price-Value:
3
out of 5
"Taking my time trying to figure out where all the keys are and sometimes find a glare on the screen while im using it, hopefully as i adjust to it from my desktop i will really enjoy the endless spaces i can take and use it including up at the cabin where i miss the internet alot..."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Newbie
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
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Review 12 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
3
out of 5
it will excellent,September 16, 2007
By gurufrom Gujrat.INDIA
Features:
4
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Battery Life:
3
out of 5
Price-Value:
4
out of 5
"this laptop will be excellent but it's battery life is low . And major problem is that it can't work with all operating system like windows xp,windows xp sp2 and windows nt or windows 2000.If one of theme we install than driver can't support which is given in cd threw ur company.And if we find this driver in website than we can get driver which is only support on VISTA not TO xp2.So company should put driver on their site which can support all operating system."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 13 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
5
out of 5
Best Purchase,August 17, 2007
By minuteman02from Lenoir,NC
Features:
5
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Battery Life:
4
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"This is a great buy for the $$. I would recommend an up grade in memory 512mb is slow for windows vista It don't cost much."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
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Review 14 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
5
out of 5
Great machine!,July 30, 2007
By KottaManfrom Baltimore, MD
Features:
5
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Battery Life:
5
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"A great machine at a great price! Has all the goodies most folks need. Am a repeat Toshiba customer for many years and have never been disappointed with the quality and performance."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 15 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
4
out of 5
very good for the money,July 14, 2007
By dchrist35from Boise, Idaho
Features:
4
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Battery Life:
3
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"I have owned a few laptops for work, school, and play For the price of this laptop it cannot be beat, it’s a little slow and I think a memory upgrade would improve that, start up and shutdown are slow but I have had other vista computers that are the same way. I find the keyboard a little clumsy especially the tap key and the location of the delete key So for the price, this laptop cannot be beat, it has a lot of the same features of higher priced laptops As for the performance, I’ve had laptops around the same price and found them not to perform as well as this one. And this one performs as well as some of the higher priced ones that I've had"
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
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Review 16 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
4
out of 5
Great Deal,July 10, 2007
By john1from Washington
Features:
4
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Battery Life:
4
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"Very great deal. The only limitation is the 512mb of ram. you will definatally upgrade that. i bought another 512 stick and it runs great(20$). I dont understand why toshiba would sell it with only 512 ram with vista though. Overall good deal and runs great with the ram upgrade."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 17 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
5
out of 5
Excellent for the price,June 26, 2007
By fsyedfrom Charlotte, NC
Features:
5
out of 5
Performance:
5
out of 5
Battery Life:
4
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"I bought this laptop from BestBuy for $529. And I think it worth it. Have read many other reviews which i think are totally not true. If you want to use Vista then you will definitely need to upgrade memory. I added 1GB to original 512MB and let me say that I have run Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 on this system and the system performs well. Other than that I have used Vista Business and recently upgraded Vista Home Basic to Vista Home Premium, couldn't find a problem. I read someone saying that graphics card is the biggest limitation, which is not correct cause I am enjoying all the features that comes standard with Windows Aero."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 18 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
3
out of 5
Can the performance be any worse???,June 24, 2007
By Vikkifrom Los Angeles, CA
Features:
3
out of 5
Performance:
1
out of 5
Battery Life:
2
out of 5
Price-Value:
3
out of 5
"Extremely slow! Not enough memory!!"
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 19 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
5
out of 5
Great Deal,June 19, 2007
By JP1965from Trenton, NJ
Features:
4
out of 5
Performance:
4
out of 5
Battery Life:
3
out of 5
Price-Value:
5
out of 5
"Bought this one at Best Buy for $529. Added 2GB ram (about $100) and it runs awesome. Great price and beautiful screen. Even has a DVD writer too."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 20 for Satellite A135-S2386
Overall Rating:
3
out of 5
love being wireless,June 15, 2007
By chocofrom Baltimore, Maryland
Features:
4
out of 5
Performance:
3
out of 5
Battery Life:
4
out of 5
Price-Value:
3
out of 5
"I bought this computer to be able to check email and surf the net anywhere in my house. It fits that bill perfectly. Startup is painfully slow and logoff also. Otherwise, it suits my needs. However, I have nothing else loaded but a virus scan, so I will need to upgrade soon."
What is your level of technical expertise?:
Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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