A Performance and Affordable Toshiba Satellite C55-C5241 Laptop

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• Publié par: seorumer
• Publié le: 13 juillet 2016
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• Langue: English

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A Performance C5241 Laptop

and Affordable

Toshiba

Satellite C55-

If you are looking for a laptop under US$500, take a look at this Toshiba Satellite C55- C5241. This laptop can be your consideration in choosing the right laptop. Toshiba is packing the good performance into a laptop that costs cheaper than US$600. This laptop is powerful enough to handle multitasking for light to medium task. Its processor, the fifthgeneration Intel Core i5 combined with the 8GB RAM are able to handle most apps installed. However,this laptopis not considered to be agraphicallydemandinglaptop. It lacks a dedicated graphic card. Up to this point, this laptop is not really suitable to be used in editingrenderin and g high resolution images or videos. So, ifyou are not an intensive user of Photoshopor a professional video or image editor, this laptop may be a good deal to be your option.

The Appearance

This considerably cheap laptop has a sleek and fine design. This Toshiba Satellite C55- C5241 has a black finish with a brushed metal cover.this laptop is thin, the screen is a half-inch ofplastic. Theplastic material is considered to be easily bent. It is supposedly to be made of cheapplastic. However, it may be the reason whyla this ptop has a cheaperprice. But alternatively, it can be said that this affordable Toshiba laptop has a premium outer looks at glance.

The Performance

This Toshiba Satellite C55-C5241 ispowered by the fifthgeneration Intel Core i5 that clocks at 2.2 GHz on normal pace and 2.7GHz when TurboBoost. The TurboBoost has the feature to constantly check the temperature and the battery level to ensure the laptop runningsafely. Be sure to keepthe laptopcool enough and has sufficientpower in order to have a better processing power. This laptop the best i5 laptop had reviewed forair- guatemala.org.

Thisprocessor supports the 64-bits architecture. it means that this laptoptake as can much advantage of the RAM. This Toshiba Satellite C55-C5241 has 8GB of RAM inside. Toshiba does not recomend its product user to upgrade the RAM. this processor and ram performance is able to handle light to medium home tasks ranging from writing, web surfing, chatting, emailing, light photo editing, etc.

The Display

Thegoodperformance of this Toshiba Satellite C55-C5241, however it is not equipped bya discretegraphic card. It is the weakestpart of this laptop. Alternatively,the laptop is eqipped by Intel HD Graphics 5500. This is an integrated graphic solution installed within the CPU. Thisgraphic system is not agamingsystem. You should not have much expectation ongamingthe la for ptoppriced $450. But this laptopstill able to run is number of games that are not graphically demanding. This limitation is applied if you want to do an extensivegraphic or video editting. It is stillpossible to run several video editting apps like Adobe Premiere. However you should have an extra patience.

The Storage

While most recent laptops start to use SSD for their storage,unfortunatelythisToshiba Satellitr C55-C5241still uses a 1 TB HDD. Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is not as fast as Solid State Drive(SSD)which is commonly used by today’s laptop. but the SSDwill cost more expensive than SSD.

Battery

For the battery, this Toshiba Satellite C55-C5241 has a fullcharged battery that can last up to seven hours (It is aggreed by most of its user). It is not a fixed duration that is still dependant to our usage. But it is more than enough for a common daily use and a quick trip. But still, remember to bring the charging adapter and easy access to power outlets in case the battery needs to be recharged.

Other features

As mentioned before, the graphics performance is not the best for heavy duty gaming and graphical tasks: extensive video, photo, graphic editing. However this laptop is expected to provide clear visual for multimedia tasks and entertainments. This laptop dispaly is the 15.6-inch, 1,366x768 resolution LCD. it has an LED-backlit for even lighting, and an anti-reflective coating. It is not a touchscreen display, but it has the

latest Windows 10 pre loaded that still friendly to be used with keyboard and mouse. The nice thing is you can still enjoy Cortana and Microsoft Edge.

The keyboard is not a backlit keyboard, yet it is considerably still comfortable. The weak point is the space bar which is quite narrow compared to its full and wide keyboard deck. However, the numeric keypad is provided that will make some calculating task easier. One DVD drive is provided where you cn enjoy watching movies on DVD.

There are plenty of connectivity options in this Satellite C55-5241. The first is the built-in Wifi adapter version is constrained to 802.11n band. Next, a bluetooth 4.0 and a port of RJ-45 are also available to support your networking needs. One USB 3.0 port and two USB 2.0 ports, this port is accessible for additional accessories such as a faster Wi-Fi adapters, a Blu-Ray RW drive, flashdisks, and so on. Another connectivity option is one SD card port that is fast and worked good for SD cards up to 128GB. However, VGA output port is not installed. If you need to use VGA output, you should aquire an HDMI to VGA connector. The good thing is the HDMI port is working perfectly without delay in this laptop. the other nice thing in this laptop is, it come with the preinstalled Windows 10, and a webcam capable of video chatting, an activity that is common nowadays.

To sum up, this laptop is really affordable and relibale for the easy to medium office work, home entertainment, networking, some other task that is not really graphically demanding. In short it has a good balance of performance and budget. If the laptop that is you are looking for is going to be used mainly for gaming and other heavy task that is graphically demanding like extensive video or graphic editing, you should be more patient a little bit and save more money to buy higher tier laptops available on the market.