Oct 11, 2013

Toshiba Satellite U840t

The Satellite U840t is one of three references in the Toshiba ultrabook range. It is a laptop with a 14 inch touch screen whose main mission is to follow you wherever you go. It comes in several versions and we had the opportunity to get your hands on one that is the most affordable it U840t-109-sold 800 euros.

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This Satellite ultrabook is a notebook PC that is intended to take anywhere. Not too heavy (1.7 kg) and having a thickness just in the middle (2.2 cm), this gear 14 inch screen fits easily in a bag. Its battery gives it a more than 4 hours video playback. It could be higher than two hours (on average) if Toshiba opted for Intel Haswell components instead of keeping the "old" Ivy Bridge platform. However, it is more than enough to make applications run every day: word processing (Word), spreadsheet (Excel), Internet browser, video, music, etc.. Prefer headphones to speakers of the machine, despite the presence of SRS sound enhancing software gives relatively poor results. As the webcam elsewhere.

Some finishing details to review

Finishing "imitation magnesium" type of case is generally successful. Hood, rigid and thick, protects the machine and can withstand shocks related to transportation. On the sides are the regulatory range of connectors (1 and 2 USB 2 USB 3, HDMI, Ethernet, stereo output, microphone and memory card reader). The outline of the screen, shiny black plastic denotes fully with all and suffers from some minor assembly defects. Because it is soft, it deforms easily and tends to leave his home, creating small days. This phenomenon is particularly visible at the bottom of the screen. On a machine sold 800 euros, it goes hard.

A configuration that lack of storage

Equipped with a touch screen of 14 inches, a good backlit keyboard and a large touchpad, this device gives you the choice of weapons to control Windows 8 and your favorite software. They do not also have to be too resource intensive 3D because U840t does not carry a decent graphics card that name. It is indeed a small graphics controller of Intel Core i3 processor is responsible for displaying HD images (1366 by 768 pixels). The rest of the configuration comes down to 6 GB of memory and a hard disk of 500 GB, supported by a module 32GB SSD can not store anything on it. It simply and effectively boosts the storage unit to speed-among others-starts and exits before the machine. Note, there is no optical drive on the sides of the machine. Finally, applications side, Toshiba aligns its competitors also small game software or system maintenance, the manufacturer offers only limited evaluation versions of 90 days (virus for example).

Toshiba 14-inch ultrabook that is quite satisfactory given the price machine. Small finishing problems aside, the machine is fun to use. We only regret that Toshiba is behind a generation of processor on such machine. In fact, Intel's new platform significantly improves battery life in portable PC, which is always beneficial for a ultranomade machine.

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