Toshiba Satellite 14" L840/020 (i5-3210M, Radeon 7670M, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD) $524 @ DickSmith

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  Arcticfox on 01/12/2012 - 16:49

  Not a bad deal, nice find OP.

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  ProspectiveDarkness on 01/12/2012 - 17:06

  Not a bad price for the specs, but IMO most Toshiba laptops are quite ugly.
  I'm sure it appeals to others, though :-)

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    StewBalls on 01/12/2012 - 18:06

    +6

    most Toshiba laptops are quite ugly.

    …but they've got a great personality! ;)

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  gmatht on 01/12/2012 - 17:18

  +1

  For some reason shops like to mention the amount of "shared memory" a GPU can access, despite this figure being pretty much meaningless. A more meaningful measure is that this card can do 60fps on low settings in Crysis 2 notebookcheck, and it can play pretty much any modern game on low (and often medium) settings.

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  Balljuice on 01/12/2012 - 17:43

  Im seeing $598??

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    ProspectiveDarkness on 01/12/2012 - 17:45

    I have $524
    :S

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    opt on 01/12/2012 - 17:50

    Click on the image or the newly inserted link (very first one). For some reason 14" version (L840) does not appear on the 25% off sale. I think you are looking at the 15" variant (L850).

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  ballsofsteel on 01/12/2012 - 18:28

  Any ideas on how good the battery life is?
  Does this run enduro? or the old school version which allows manual switching of the GPU?

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    opt on 01/12/2012 - 19:15

    I haven't done extensive testing, I get about 3 to 3.5 hrs on Wifi watching streaming videos, probably a little more with simple tasks like word processing…. Unfortunately it doesn't support switchable graphics, no access to Intel HD4000. That might explain the mediocre battery life.

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      kaikor on 01/12/2012 - 21:59

      Have you also tested any games on this too? If yes, how was it?

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        opt on 02/12/2012 - 11:58

        I have played Mafia 2 and Mass effect 3 on high settings, currently playing Max Payne 3 with high detail settings with AA turned off, all the games I have tested so far are very smooth at 720p (connected to a LCD TV).

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  GaZZa_Da_G on 01/12/2012 - 23:00

  Hey Guys,

  Wohoo thats a good deal for i5 model!

  I purchased one of the I3 2350M model "Toshiba L840-03" with AMD Radeon™ HD7670M 1GB (2801MB Total: 1GB discrete memory + 1777MB shared memory) laptop for my sisters birthday a few months ago… and she upgrade to 16gig of DDR3 1600mhz ram.

  Gaming wise, its plays the following fine -

  CS GO on high 60fps @ 1366x768 and also the same for the new need for speed most wanted.
  World of warcraft is playble 40+ FPS in stormwind on high settings with AA / AF filters.
  **gaming wise its good, around desktop it a feels a little slow / delayed when multi tasking, but the i5 should be alot better!

  hope this helps

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    [Deactivated] on 02/12/2012 - 12:42

    Sooooo much RAM…

    She should download that RAM disk application while she can, she could definitely make use of it!

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  gto21 on 02/12/2012 - 09:57

  Officework have clearance on The Toshiba Satellite C850/02D Notebook for $627. After price match this laptop cost $495.90

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    opt on 02/12/2012 - 12:04

    F.Y.I: C850/02D has an older 2nd gen i5-2450M CPU and a somewhat slower Radeon 7610M graphics card, on top of that its a bulky 15".

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  FlyingPanda on 02/12/2012 - 13:52

  Similar spec laptop with a better graphics card, not sure if an extra $175 is worth it for a 650M and 17inch screen though…

  http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/86022

  650m - http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-650M.71887.0.…
  7670m - http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-7670M.69483.0.htm…

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    opt on 02/12/2012 - 15:23

    Personally I'd just buy a cheaper, upgradable desktop for gaming instead of wasting money on a bulky 17" laptop.