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- 1.3GHz Intel Pentium Ultra Low Voltage SU4100 Processor
- 3GB Memory
- 500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
- 13.3″ LED-Backlit Display
- Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, *9 Hours 22 Minutes of Battery Life
Product Description
The Satellite T135 Series are affordable, ultrathin laptops built for everyday life on the go. Toshiba’s thinnest and lightest Satellite models feature a power-efficient processor, making them ideal for students or fast-moving pros who demand a travel-friendly laptop with long battery life. Though sleek and light, the T135 Series deliver the performance you’d expect from a standard laptop—horsepower to handle the day’s tasks or evening’s entertainment, plu… More >>
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Well, it has been almost a month since I bought my T135 and I can say I love this little Titan.
Pros:
-LIGHTWEIGHT
-Powerful. With Windows 7 64 edition, I can get as much performance as a my other Core 2 Duo Toshiba Sattellite A135 laptop.
- I can get 9 hours plus of battery life (Eco Mode). As per the other person stating that he can get only 4 hours of battery life, that is in full power mode. Try to get 4 hours of battery life at full power from any other machine and you will fail miserably
- Great Graphics
- Great sound if you do the following:
Go to Control Panel
Select SMART AUDIO
On the lower part, select SMART EQ/3D SETTINGS
Select CUSTOM
Pull the buttons up (i have them still at number 7 (from out of 15), quite enough as you will see)
Enjoy AWESOME volume!!!
- Wifi 802.11N!!! I mean, I an get my 802.11N signal from some 200 meters in my garden!!!
- Gorgeous looks
-FAST, FAST, FAST
I have edited video and music (iTunes and a couple of DVD rippers) and it does them in a copule of minutes
- IT’S a TOSHIBA!!!!
- Video conferencing (Skype and Messenger) it’s really good, although the camera it’s only 1.3 megapixels
- After 10 hours of use, at full power, it barely gets warm. You can put it on your bag right away
- Ultra Low Voltage means Ultra Low Energy Consumption. I mean guys, we have to be environmentally conscious. This babe just uses 19V of energy at full power, down to 8-10 Volts at Eco Mode.
NEUTRAL
- I hate on every laptop (no matter what brand) the touch pads. I always use an external mouse.
CONS
- You can do a fingerprint exam on the laptop. I do not know why it gets so finger dirty (and believe me, I wash my hands very often). I bought a GelySkin for the exterior and it’s a great add-on
Hope this review is usefull
Rating: 5 / 5
Very sleek and beautiful LIGHT notebook, but you’ll need the external optical drive for $60 more. I was impressed with the quality and ‘Maciness’ of this baby, especially in the white which is just beautiful and allows you to see the keys better in a darkened room. The Core 2 Duo speed, bluetooth, webcam are all plusses. The one drawback I see is that I and the reviewers at Bestbuy find the touchpad to be clunky, grainy with the mouse harder to finely control and the buttons too narrow but unresponsive. You have to concentrate on touching them on the very end where leverage is better and your fingers won’t get worn out. All in all, gorgeous to look at, lug around and mostly use. I found the touchpad clunky and rough compared to my Dell so I gave this only 3 stars. An inexpensive external USB mouse would solve this problem.
Also, it says Windows 7 Professional or higher is required to run legacy apps in the special XP emulator mode–however it runs the 16-bit Norton Filemanager which can set a filespec and branch directories just fine!
Rating: 3 / 5
Firstly, definitely fix your sound setup as per JMesa’s descrition.
[Also, JMesa, the units of power are Watts (W) not Volts (V), but
your numbers are otherwise correct.]
The quite miserable Touchpad response can be fixed in the following
manner. But please note that doing this will also lose the zoom and
rotate capability built into the as delivered Touchpad driver. I do
computer graphics and the tradoff of a far more usable Touchpad with
no rotate and zoom was well worth the switch. Perform the following
selections:
Start
Control Panel
Hardware and Sound
Device Manager (under Devices and Printers)
Mice and Other Pointing Devices
OK, from here on I cannot provide the exact names because having
already done this change the names are no longer available in the
menues for viewing.
Select the Touchpad and then the Touchpad Driver and then Delete it.
You will receive a warning but continue with the deletion. Then you
will have to reboot one or more times as Windows 7 detects the lack
of a Touchpad driver and simply installs its own driver. The Windows
7 Touchpad driver is more user friendly than what Toshiba provided,
but it does lack the rotate and zoom that very few would use anyway.
I bought this laptop for my spouse and she likes it after I fixed the
sound and Touchpad. It does have a really long operating time on the
battery when you set it up for minimal power usage.
Rating: 5 / 5
i will only comment on some stuff that have not been mentioned in earlier reviews (unless i disagree with them), so it might be worth your while reading those, too.
if you tweak your audio as per an earlier review, the volume is incredible. i don’t know how a little laptop can generate that much sound.
however, there isn’t (or i haven’t found it yet) a mechanical way to adjust volume. there is only a keyboard combination for mute or not-mute, but as far as i can tell one would have to adjust the volume from the desktop.
the integrated 1.3 MP webcam is not too bad; seems smart enough to adjust for low light.
the trackpad, as per earlier reviews, isn’t well-designed. it takes some getting used to, but it’s not impossible to work it.
the display is stunning.
it is not really ultraportable. it is very thin, yes, but still has some weight.
my only other complaint has to do with windows 7 and not the laptop: customizing the start menu (thank you very much microsoft, but i’d like to organize my links the way i want it, not the way you think i would want it.) used to be a cinch in XP and vista; in 7, i had to do some research at midnight just to figure out how to do it. and no, this information is sorely lacking in windows 7 help. sometimes, i do think windows can be very insulting/condescending.
update:
the display is really quite something: stunning.
the battery life is impressive (in eco mode, at least): i didn’t think it was 9 hours, but i was doing a lot of things that one doesn’t do everyday: defragment, backup, uninstall, install, virus scan, etc.
great for listening to your favorite playlist while practicing yoga.
also great for reading kindle books.
i’m not sure that sleep-and-charge works, although that could be because of the device i wanted to charge, and not the laptop.
one final update:
the battery life is impressive. however, the speakers seem to drain it far too quickly that i would have expected. i guess that’s the price you pay for awesome audio.
Rating: 4 / 5
o Pros:
——-
-Very light, you can put put it on your lap and work for a long time without feeling its weight nor its heat.
-Comfortable keyboard
-Touch pad is NOT too annoying, it just needs time to get used to.
-Battery lasts for a long time (eco-power mode). Even though the screen brightness is low in this mode, you can’t tell that it’s low and you will feel that it has a very clear image (not dull).
o Cons:
——–
-It gets dirty really quickly with your fingerprints everywhere. I have to clean it pretty often so that it would look clean
-It doesn’t have any mechanical buttons for adjusting the volume (mute, +, -). Everything is adjusted by combination of keyboard keys (Fn + 3,4)
- You need to adjust the audio settings “from smart audio” in control panel (described in details bu another reviewer) to get a good sound out of it.
FYI: I have only had it for 1 month and I don’t use it for “heavy load” jobs like computer simulations or so. I just use it for writing and editing my reports, presenting my work, checking email may be with windows media player running in the background.
Overall it’s a very good computer especially if you need to travel with it a lot and use it on battery mode for a long time.
That’s all!
Rating: 5 / 5