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The integrated speakers are very good. The front placement and large size make them very pleasant. Actually, the sound output is one strong point of Toshiba Satellite laptop throughout many generations. The microphone quality and positioning is mediocre, with chassis noise (hard-drive) being picked up easily as in most laptops of this era. | The integrated speakers are very good. The front placement and large size make them very pleasant. Actually, the sound output is one strong point of Toshiba Satellite laptop throughout many generations. The microphone quality and positioning is mediocre, with chassis noise (hard-drive) being picked up easily as in most laptops of this era. | ||
The standard HDDs supplied by Toshiba have a known tendency to have their heads stick to the parking position limiter when old, making the drive fail to start. Careful internal dissassembly is required to unstick the heads from the parking position. Use care and touch only the drive arm near the center pin to slowly unstick it. Overall, the hard-drive offers medium performance while having quite a pleasant sound in operation. The use of proprietary memory that is EDO RAM pin compatible but cannot work in the laptop if standard memory modules are used is highly annoying. | The harddrive is placed on a caddy, requiring removal of a single screw to slide. There is plenty of space inside for other storage systems. Unfortunatly, the standard HDDs supplied by Toshiba have a known tendency to have their heads stick to the parking position limiter when old, making the drive fail to start. Careful internal dissassembly is required to unstick the heads from the parking position. Use care and touch only the drive arm near the center pin to slowly unstick it. Overall, the hard-drive offers medium performance while having quite a pleasant sound in operation. The use of proprietary memory that is EDO RAM pin compatible but cannot work in the laptop if standard memory modules are used is highly annoying. | ||
Software support is great in DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95/98 as well, making the system feel snappy. DOS sound capability is great, with good Adlib compatibility and Sound Blaster Pro emulation. While configuration to enable DOS support is quite cumbersome, it is properly working. In Windows 98 you start to feel the sluggishness of the system as the video controller has insufficient acceleration and low screen scrolling performance. Basically Toshiba used roughly the same platform on Pentium laptops with little diferentiation. Although the video controller is faster than some Trident models, it is far from late Pentium 1 era Neomagic 128 chipsets. | Software support is great in DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95/98 as well, making the system feel snappy. DOS sound capability is great, with good Adlib compatibility and Sound Blaster Pro emulation. While configuration to enable DOS support is quite cumbersome, it is properly working. In Windows 98 you start to feel the sluggishness of the system as the video controller has insufficient acceleration and low screen scrolling performance. Basically Toshiba used roughly the same platform on Pentium laptops with little diferentiation. Although the video controller is faster than some Trident models, it is far from late Pentium 1 era Neomagic 128 chipsets. | ||