$398.00 Toshiba Satellite A205-S5000 Laptop.

Hi, im in america for another week and i saw this laptop at wallmart.

SPECS:
# CPU : Intel Celeron Processor 540 (1.86 GHz)
# LCD : 15.4" Diagonal Widescreen TrueBrite Display
# MEMORY : 2GB DDR2 RAM
# HDD : 120 GB
# ODD : SuperMulti DVD+/-RW
# MODEM : 56K
# LAN : 10/100 Base T
# WIRELESS LAN : 802.11 b/g WLAN
# SOFTLOAD : Windows Vista Home Premium


Now, im not going to use this computer for gaming or anything alike, i just need to use this for school stuff. Will this computer be good enough for just normal surfing the net and using word? Or will it horribly fail?

Thx in advance,
Hole

That would be perfectly fine

Though I would strongly recommend getting a custom laptop for study the Satellite series are somewhat good.

Toshiba tends to put a rediculess amount of extra software on pre-configured laptops that most of the time only slow down performance. (My Toshiba Satellite P200-15N has 15 pre installed programs related to Toshiba and half of them have no use)

Also, since every new laptop comes with Vista expect some annoying bugs, on my laptop explorer.exe randomly freezes and Vista cuts down batterly life a lot.

And you should be warned when buying a complete computer configuration in a foreign country, if the laptop breaks you'll have to send it all the way back to America, also Windows Vista will be in English only, and American powerplugs aren't compatable with European ones.

I'll post this here because i don't want to start a new thread and what i post is a cheap laptop like this is.

This is the Config:
Notebook Fujitsu Siemens ESPRIMO V5505 v2 T5750
CPU:

Centrino Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz, Cache 2 Mb, FSB: 667 Mhz

HDD & RAM:

160GB SATA
2 x 1024MB RAM DDR II 667 Mhz
Max RAM Supported:
Up to 4 Gb

1 x Express card 34/54
DVD Super Multi DL
Display type:
WXGA
Video Chipset:
Intel GMA X3100
Optimal Resolution:
1280 x 800
16.7 Mil Colors
Video Card Capacity:
Up to 350 Mb Shared


10/100/1000 Mbps Fast Ethernet LAN
Wireless
WLAN Intel a/b/g

56k Modem

4 x USB 2.0 ports
VGA
stereo microphone in
stereo headphone/line out
Firewire (1394a)
power connector
S-video TV out
Multimedia

HD Audio

Li-Ion battery 6 cell 5200mAh

No OS. The price is ~530$. What do you think? Is it good enough for my Studies, Wireless Internet, and maybe some Casual Gaming? I heard FS Notebooks have some problems with the drivers and stuff? Is that right? I am a bit confused...

It's great until you get to the bit that says "Intel GMA X3100"

Intel's attempt at a mobile graphics chipset to allow some degree of gaming. Works, as long as the game is minesweeper.

Well i don't want a lot of FPS, i just want a game to work. Will Mass effect work on that? at Minimum?

No.

Penguins rule.

After some research i found out that that video card will be able to run games such as WoW, HF2, FarCry, F.E.A.R., etc. Will GW work on it? :-S

Ive seen 15 year old computers work fine surfing the web....you can buy the cheapest one you can find and it will work fine.

actually i game away from my gaming computer with a laptop that has a 1,83 ghz celeron 2 gb of ram and the 945 intel graphics it does a decent job at it as it uses 256 mb of ram from the system and i have no probs and i get like 15-20 fps on it now my desktop is another story close to 60+fps

Technically correct - it will also be able to run SuperPi to 1000 iterations, it's just that it will take a week to do it.

Guild Wars will run on it - just don't expect your fps to be in double figures much.

The word "run" means the game will start up. Play is an entirely different word. If you like playing your games in slideshow picture format, then yes, that graphics "card" is fine. OTherwise, I would find a laptop with a bit more umph!

Meh after all i decided to buy that laptop. It will arrive tomorrow. As for the gaming part, i will either upgrade my Desktop or buy a new one in a couple of months, since a desktop replacement is a bit out of my budget.