Comments on Toshiba Portege R100

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jeremy3

12:58 AM on 20 July, 2009

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Even at the time this laptop wasn't worth the asking price. I would say this laptop is only useful for basic tasks such as browsing the net and checking your email. There is virtually no performance in terms of graphics although the battery life was good.





I know this isn't supposed to be a 'gaming laptop' but even still don't think of playing anything but the most basic of games. This laptop can't even play games such as Doom which are over a decade old for heavens sake.





Another thing which I discovered was that the wireless adaptor is extremely poor no matter which router you are using. I had excellent signal strength and the damned thing would disconnect after around 20 minutes for basic surfing and up to every 20 seconds with more intensive downloading. Well that sucks for sites such as Rapidshare which don't support resuming. I spent hours scouring the net and the best advice I could find was to make sure power saving was turned off. It was off and it still didn't make a difference.





One last thing. After a couple of years the mouse pad began making automatic selections like the left mouse button was being pressed when the cursor was being moved. I definitely wasn't pressing it by accident and turned off all those inertial movement/other mousepad options to no avail.





So basically this laptop was only good for portability and doing basic tasks.