Toshiba NB305 user reviews

Lockwood0503 15 June 2012

Good: Hardware for it's time was good and the battery life is great. Looks good too.

Bad: The good is outweighed by the laggy performance of Windows 7 Starter. Also had problems with the sound playback, typing lag not to mention it's loaded with Toshiba bloat ware.

Comment: While the machine itself is better than my first netbook, it falls short in performance with Windows 7 Starter. Being unable to customise my background was something I thought I wouldn't mind as long as it's performance isn't hindered too much. Lets start with a few things:

General Performance:
This machine can run games such as Aion and the rumours of Starter limiting the number of open programs isn't true. However you should expect 0-5 fps for Aion and the inflexible OS makes it annoying to work with.

As a Toshiba machine, it comes with the bloat-ware that is usually helpful. Unfortunately not a fan of their 'flashcards' for the Fn allocations, most of the time they don't even appear so when you want to turn off/on that wireless it may be due to lady luck. However the problem is resolved with a system restart... every so often.

General Image:
Like the keyboard design, if only the thing actually kept up. Also like how its a different look from most netbooks available.

Audio:
My phone plays audio better than this. Albeit not as high a quality but at the same time at least I won't get an unexplained skip (this was done with Windows Media Player, Grooveshark is worse - depending on network conditions).

Display:
The display is ok, kind of was taken aback with the other issues. If you want to read pdfs, the 10" really does make note of being small on a plane with some kid kicking your seat for 20 odd hours.

Battery Life:
Pretty awesome battery life, after sacrificing so much potential productivity... but you'll have about 7-8+ hours with it. But kinda does come down to the fact that its not looking to be used very intensively and requires the power saver settings.

Overall:
I bought it since I didn't want to take my irreplaceable pcs on travel, but is very portable and does ... good for general internet browsing.

upulpriyan 13 March 2012

Bad: CAN'T PLAY GAMES, AS A EXAMPLE, NFS 6, IGI 1

Comment: CAN i play games in my mini tohiba nb 305. if can, what i do for it. I'm installed all drivers correctly.

i want to play nfs 6, igi 1 and age of empair 2,

but its not working, but smallast game are working,

Matt Staunton 13 February 2011

Good: performance and battery life

Bad: keys stick

Comment: best balance for me the keys sometimes stick and letters get left out but other than that its the best.

Zafeer Usman Moghal 26 August 2010

Comment: It's handy and is very useful!!!!!!!!!