User Review for Toshiba Portege R500 (Core 2 Duo ULV U7600 Processor 1.2GHz, 1.5GB RAM)
Really bad in performance, build quality, and design. Look for other reviews and then avoid.
Mar 19, 2009Rating: 1 out of 10 (Abysmal)
Pros: It is very light and small.
Cons: A total design lemon. Worst screen I have ever seen cannot watch videos. Wireless does not work. Too muck keyboard flex. Optical drive is flaky. Very poor build quality. Sound - what sound a mouse squeak is louder. Very slow - 5 mins to boot up - will not shut down. Excessive bloatware pre-installed. I disabled the finger scan reader (buggy). Gets very hot with a slight burning smell. Battery life pathetic. Who puts a Kensington lock on a wafer thin screen? It is joke - avoid this product. Unattractive because it looks cheap but is expensive.
Opinion:
There is not much wrong with this defective product it is unbelievable bad. I get 40 mins out of a brand new product - gets extremely hot and smells like it is burning. There is way too much sacrifice for this to be a usable PC. Do searches on the Internet and read between the lines you will see there is pattern of complete unreliability on this product
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