Toshiba Portege R500 (Core 2 Duo ULV U7600 Processor 1.2GHz, 1.5GB RAM)

Email

Bookmark

Share

Average User Rating

from 12 users

Spectacular

8.7

out of 10

How would you rate this product?

Write your own review

Sort by: Rating | Date |

12 user reviews

Jump to page: [1] 2 3

Really bad in performance, build quality, and design. Look for other reviews and then avoid.

Mar 19, 2009

Rating: 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

ravenbow

View profile

The lightest notebook with optical drive in the market

Apr 8, 2008

Rating: 9 out of 10 (Spectacular)
Pros: Fully functional super light notebook
Cons: Windows Vista
Opinion:
Having owned the classic Toshiba T1000 in the early-90's and having gone through an Acer, Dell and Twinhead I have come full circle and gotten the R500. Lugging a 2.5 kg Dell through an airport is no joke.

It was a choice between a UMPC (Asus Eee), Sony TZ or this. The initial impression was that it was quite flimsy, but the CD drive and screen has survived beng assaulted by my 3 yr old son. There is a Youtube video out there showing how much damage it can take. The battery is enough for a 5 hour plane flight on "power save" mode (ie no CD). The finger recognition software actually works. It does get very hot and one needs to balance it so that the vent is not blocked by your leg.

Sony's keyboard is better - but a full sized keyboard that works beats the cramp-inducing Eee keyboard. The 12 vs 10 in of the ... Read more