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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Toshiba Satellite R830-11C Review

Business Notebook. Toshiba has released a satellite phone R830, 13.3-inch subnotebook that may be of particular interest to business customers. Small, lightweight, portable stands a sleek, good battery and equipped with an SSD.

Now he can hardly move for laptops that use a combination of hardware Intel Core i5-2410M graphics and Intel HD 3000 graphics. We recently made a large number of them in the Intel test! 2011 project. So how can a laptop stand out from the crowd? Toshiba simple answer to this question is the same hardware in a small sub-portable 13.3-inch, a range of different prices. The case is made of magnesium instead of plastic, the screen is matte, and an SSD has been used instead of a conventional hard drive. But instead, the user is asked to cough up about 1000 euros.

Specifications Toshiba Satellite R830-11C :
  • Processor : Intel Core i5 2410M 2.3 GHz
  • Mainboard : Intel HM55 Express Chipset
  • Memory : 4096 MB, DDR3-10600, 1333 MHz, max. 8 GB, 2 banks
  • Graphics adapter : Intel HD Graphics 3000, 8.15.10.2291
  • Display : 13.3 inch 16:9, 1366x768 pixel, LED backlighting, glossy: no
  • Harddisk : Toshiba THNSNC128GMLJ, 128GB Solid State Drive
  • Soundcard : Realtek ALC269
  • Connections : 2 USB 2.0, 1 USB 3.0, 1 VGA, 1 HDMI, 1 Kensington Lock, 1 eSata, Audio Connections: 2x audio (headphones, microphone), Card Reader: 6-in-1 card reader (MMC, SD Memory Card, SDHC, miniSD, microSD, SDXC),
  • Networking : Intel 82579V Gigabit Network Connection (10/1000MBit), Atheros AR9002WB-1NG Wireless Network Adapter (bgn), 3.0 + HS Bluetooth
  • Optical drive : MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ8A2AS
  • Size : height x width x depth (in mm): 18.3 - 26.6 x 316 x 227
  • Weight : 1.48 kg Power Supply: 0.23 kg
  • Battery : 66 Wh Lithium-Ion, 6-cell battery, 10.8 Volt
  • Price : 999,00 Euro
  • Operating System : Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
  • Additional features : Webcam: VGA WebCam mit Gesichtserkennung, Toshiba Bluetooth Stack, Toshiba Bluetooth Monitor, Toshiba Disc Creator, Toshiba user handbook, Supervisor password program, Toshiba Assist, Chicony Camera Assistant Software, Toshiba facial recognition software, Toshiba Value Added Package, 24 Months Warranty.
Performance

At the heart of a 13.3-inch laptop has an Intel Core i5-2410M processor. This is a mid-level processor I have the latest generation of Core processors, based on Sandy Bridge architecture. I5-2410M is a dual-core speed 2.3 GHz per core model. Thank you for hyperthreading processor can handle four threads simultaneously. If more power is needed at a particular time, the system can dynamically overclock the system.

Depending upon demand, or both cores can be overclocked to 2.6 GHz, or one of the core can be overclocked 2.9 GHz so you can give a new impulse to the processor performance, although this will only happen if the processor is pretty cool. With a TDP of 35 watts the processor is very frugal, and not have too much to develop the cooling system, which is certainly the front 13.3-inch laptop.

The processor includes an integrated graphics card, which is of great benefit to the system. Allows the laptop to do without a dedicated graphics card, which would be used in a lot of extra energy. Unit is Intel integrated graphics HD 3000 Graphics Compared to previous models, HD 3000 Graphics has integrated graphics power, is now on the same level as the entry-level Nvidia GeForce 310M.

This usually means you can play some older games without problems, and even some of the newer games (eg, StarCraft 2). However, one must accept some sacrifices quality and accuracy of modern games. Integrated graphics cards are designed mainly for basic functions such as working on office documents, surfing the Internet, or video, not games.

Especially with a laptop as Toshiba R830, you can assume it will focus on the company and to the Office of things instead of games.

Toshiba has really given the small subnotebooks a powerful processor in terms of Intel Core i5-2410M. It is also the reference processor. In Cinebench R10 Rendering Single (64 bits), the Satellite R830 works well with a score of 4556.0 points. What is the same as 15-inch notebook, which is also equipped with Intel Core i5-2410M. Satellite R830 even be placed outside the hotel.

It also scores well in the Cinebench R10 Multi-rendering (64 bit), its points of 9653 by placing among the leaders. For example, we see similar results from LH531 14-inch Fujitsu LifeBook (2410M, HD 3000 Graphics) with 9659 points, or Acer Aspire 3830TG-2414G75nbb (2410M, GT540M), which is 13.3 inches and marked 9651 points. In 64-bit CPU Cinebench R11.5 Reference subnotebooks all scores of 2.6 points, it is on par with other notebooks, which has an Intel Core i5-2410M. The processor is the Turbo seems to come into force without any problems when using the CPU heavy.