Toshiba Mini NB305-N440RD 10.1-Inch Ruby Red Netbook
July 2, 2010 at 11:08 am , by Cheap Discount Sale
- 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 processor
- 1 GB DDR3 RAM
- 250 GB SATA hard drive
- 10.1-inch LED backlit widescreen display; Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 video processor
- Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, 8.3 hours of battery life
Product Description
Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with our award-winning, super-compact NB305 netbook – a companion PC offering a smart, comfort-driven design and exclusive convenience features for light, on-the-go-computing. Thanks to excellent high-speed connectivity, the renowned Intel Atom processor, and up to an eight-hour battery life rating, this innovative best-in-class netbook lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it comes with a 10.1-Inch diagonal display, and provides smart features to enhance your mobile life – l… More >>
Toshiba Mini NB305-N440RD 10.1-Inch Ruby Red Netbook
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by Sometime Consumer
On July 2, 2010 at 11:19 am
Until two hours ago, Toshiba’s website said this netbook was upgradeable to 2GB memory. I bought the netbook and an upgrade memory module (exactly fitting their specs). The machine would not work with that memory.
Ok. These things happen.
Amazon very generously sent me a new memory module. This also didn’t work.
I spent hours on the phone, with Toshiba’s “technical” support. Serial liars all. Their clownish obfuscation was beyond all belief. I wish I had a transcript, because I can’t recreate the stream of circular logic, technical ignorance, scripted flowery phrases, and dropped calls. (I also spoke with the wonderful folks at Crucial. They make the module and spent a lot of time with me trying to diagnose the problem.)
While Toshiba was busy denying there WAS a problem I watched — on the fly — Toshiba’s website change: it no longer linked to recommended memory upgrade modules. But no one, from Level 1 to Level 2 (Level 3 was mysteriously sequestered and unavailable for direct contact) to Customer Support back to Level 1 could ever for a moment admit there was a problem other than the unlikely coincidence that BOTH modules sent to me were flawed.
And (I had owned the machine for 1 day!) if I wanted them to look at the netbook I had to ship and insure it to Kentucky, at my expense, for their leisurely look. They wouldn’t cover me under warranty taking it locally into a Toshiba-authorized repair shop.
The long story short, when I saw their own web site refresh and change, I saw Toshiba’s new official story: they wouldn’t support a memory upgrade. I still have a downloaded spec PDF, which certainly does. But they’ve changed their tune online.
Amazon has been terrific throughout this mess. But Toshiba: what an awful corporate culture. What an awful warranty. What a lineup of people picking up the phone.
A company’s product is no better than their customer service. I rank Toshiba as the worst.
Rating: 1 / 5
by Sam
On July 2, 2010 at 11:50 am
I’ve never really used a PC for more than a few minutes at a time at a friend’s house. I’ve been a Mac guy since 1992 when I began college and first got into graphic design. I have always hated Windows and I have always thought non-Macs felt like cheap junk, the interface always seemed difficult and clunky whether it was Windows 95 or XP. I have only tested Vista and 7 in the stores until I finally bought the bullet and just decided to get this little netbook… because, let’s face it, Apple dropped the ball with that iPad crap.
Well, I’ve only had this thing for 3 days and it didn’t take long to get used to. Some helpful people online told me which freeware to get to remove the extraneous crap Best Buy had installed on the machine and apparently I’m good to go with a couple free Antivirus programs. I probably won’t be downloading any .exe or .zip files from warez, porn or music stealing sites on this thing just because I wouldn’t really want to risk it; I’ll do that on my mac. Not that I do that sort of thing.
I’m not sure what this is really good for. I have a text editor now so I can do some HTML/CSS/PHP in a pinch, but I’m not sure I’ll ever really need to. Believe it or not, I pretty much got it just to test websites on the fly with IE8… since I do web design for a living, it just becomes inconvenient to always rely on browsershots, when I can check back and forth with my little buddy and see what’s fugged up in Intercrap Exploder. It works for that just fine. The portability is an added bonus! And the price is right!
For people who want to write their novel in Starbucks or people who waste money on this sort of crap purely to surf the net, this would be a great choice! I’ll be taking this on long trips for instant access to Google maps if I need it. For others like me who are not iPhone/Blackberry crazy, this is also useful for that kind of thing.
Youtube, Facebook, and pretty much any website I’ve tried (including some rather large ones I designed myself) look excellent on this thing. Fit on the screen well and not so small that it’s hard to read. This is a great little thing to watch videos on when you’re stuck somewhere without a tv, too… unlike an iPhone, which is painfully small to watch anything on for more than 3 minutes.
Keyboard is quality. Not junky feeling like most other PCs I’ve touched. Compared to the Acer, Dell and HP netbooks I’ve played with in the store, this thing feels like a Rolls Royce or something. Nice, solid little machine.
On a broadband wifi, it’s as fast as you could ever want or need.
Toshibas don’t come with a lot of bloatware, either. I only had to delete the Best Buy marketplace software and Norton Utilities.
Great battery life, great monitor brightness, color and clarity, Windows 7 is awesome!
All in all, a great purchase. Very satisfied.
Rating: 4 / 5