Toshiba Mini NB305 N410BL 10 1 Inch Royal Blue Netbook 11 Hours of Battery Life
Toshiba Mini NB305 N410BL 10 1 Inch Royal Blue Netbook 11 Hours of Battery Life
The Toshiba Mini NB305-N410BL Netbook is ultra-portable, ultra-light, and ultra-ready to travel anywhere you want to go! This Toshiba Netbook comes running an Intel Atom N450 1.66GHz mobile processor and 1GB of DDR2 memory. That’s enough to enjoy light computer usage wherever you travel! The Toshiba Mini NB305-N410BL Netbook weighs only 2.6 pounds, making it one of the lightest mobile PC solutions on the market. It also has 250GB SATA Hard Drive and media card reader so you can store, share or load up digital devices on the go. Stay connected with integrated 802.11b/g/n wireless and webcam.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Toshiba Mini 305
I really like the keyboard and the quality of the netbook. The only issue is that it comes with Windows 7 Starter version which is not great.
3 Stars Toshiba mini laptop NB305-N310
Very good battery last for at least 8 Hours. Large hard drive. Poor video cam resolution. Weak sound. Monitor resolution not so good when you read a text or look at a foto. The card reader does not work for Memory stick. Nice looking little laptop. Easy to carry around.
Overall I’ll recommend it to a friend.
4 Stars Great Little Computer, But…
This computer has been just what the doctor ordered but the 1GB of memory makes it a relatively slow computer so I ordered the 2GB memory upgrade that Amazon recommended to order with the computer so I ordered it. Guess what? It was the wrong memory chip and didn’t fit into my computer, the slot was on the wrong side so I had to return the memory to Amazon and could not find the correct memory on Amazon so I ordered it from Best Buy and it worked. Now that I have the correct memory in the computer it works well and is great for travel. I have been satisfied with just about all of my Amazon orders but this one so beware of Amazon’s recommended add on products because they may not be compatible with the primary product you ordered.
4 Stars I’m a Mac …
… yet here I am writing a positive review about a Windows machine. Why do you buy a netbook? Because it’s small, lightweight and cheap. While I would have loved to buy a 13″ MacBook Pro, the netbook is 4x cheaper & almost 2 pounds lighter. The review is only 4 stars because this is a netbook and is limited by definition. But this is a nice netbook and I recommend it if you can live with its capabilities (or lack thereof). Understand, you don’t get what you don’t pay for.
Software: I find reviews complaining about netbooks only coming with Windows 7 Starter to be about as silly as Apple complaining Flash is proprietary so they won’t support it on the iPad (like they haven’t used proprietary in their past). This is a slow chip on a tiny machine – why bog it down? While there are a few things I can’t do with Starter that I’m finding very frustrating, on the whole the OS is adequate. It works better than previous versions of Windows I’ve used, and I was able to connect to my wireless network and add two peripherals with no problem. None.
Same thing for Microsoft Works – it easily opened programs created in Microsoft Office (on the Mac), and for me the document portability issue is more important than a fully featured Office suite would be.
Email: the Windows Live Mail is easy to set up and works quite intuitively. My one complaint is that the calendar is buried in the email program – this means no direct access and no sync with iCal. I will be looking for a shareware calendar program.
Web browsing: the first thing I did was to download Chrome – I.E. still doesn’t support all css. Some pages load slowly, but others (especially Flash based pages) load faster than they do on my more powerful Mac. The hardest thing for me was getting used to that short screen – most web pages were not designed for this weird resolution so lots of scrolling is involved. That’s also the reason why you should question what software you want to use on this computer – can you work with it on such a tiny screen? Though I am an artist, I’ve yet to try any graphics program fot that reason.
Hardware: did I mention slow … the one place it would make sense to add a feature & raise the price is memory. Swapping the chip for a 2 gig chip showed a noticeable speed improvement. I bought whatever Amazon said everyone else was buying, and putting in the chip was quite easy. If you buy a netbook – buy the memory too – it makes a difference.
The specs for all netbooks seem to be very similar – they vary by design and installed memory more than anything else. The construction is good, and the case design has a textured cover that makes it easier to hold on to and will hide fingerprints if thats a problem for you. The most outstanding thing about this computer is the quality of the image on the screen – very sharp & very good color. Toshiba also supplies detailed color/contrast controls for the display that I haven’t needed to use yet, but it’s good to know they are there.
The keyboard is comfortable, but I have small hands. My one problem with the keyboard is that the raised bar on the “F” & “J” keys isn’t raised enough and is too far on the bottom of the key so my hands often start typing from the wrong position. Once the correct keys are found, no problem at all.
This is the first trackpad I’ve ever liked using – I’ll still use a mouse but it won’t always be necessary. The “multi-gesture” support is great to have because of how much scrolling is needed for web browsing, though sometimes I have problems with it. This was the only thing I had to go to the manual to figure out how to do.
Battery – I’ve yet to drain the battery even after leaving it unplugged for two days. I haven’t traveled with it yet but I’m looking forward to not having to search the airport for a free socket.
5 Stars Cute little netbook that goes with just about any outfit
The NB305-N310 is cute, lightweight, and functional. Because it’s black, it goes with just about any outfit. Don’t make the mistake of going with one of the colored versions and thereby limiting yourself to only particular clothes. Can you imagine the sorry girl who buys the white one without thinking and then can use it only between Memorial Day and Labor Day?
The Toshiba engineers made the case shiny enough that you can look at it when you put your lipstick on.
It has traveled extensively with me, including overseas, and never bogged me down.
Source: Mrs. LaptopNoteBook