Toshiba rolls out the Tecra R10 along with the other Portege A600 (read the review). What I like most about this R10 laptop without even looking at specs is how large the cooling metal fins are on the side of the laptop.
One of the biggest problems with bigger, performance laptops in the past have been problems with CPU cooling. With great advances in CPU technology, manufacturers usually put a CPU fan that will last just over a year, causing the laptop to break after warranty expires. Sounds like a great way to fool consumers to buy a new laptop every year? (Well that has been case with 2 of my previous $2000 HP laptops, I am not buying HP for awhile now, I switched to Dell.)
The cooling fan on this laptop should help you to work for a long time even without laptop cooling mats since the fans come out to the side. Well, a lot of laptops are like this but it’s good to note that this one does have a BIG one.
The Toshiba Tecra R10 comes with a 14.1″ widescreen display, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor SP9300, 3GB PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz SDRAM, 160GB HDD, DVD, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 128MB NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 150M Discrete Graphics* Card, fingerprint reader, webcam, and eSATA port.
Like the Portege A600 we reviewed, this Tecra R10 is also missing a DVI output port. As far as I am concerned, that is priority for consumers these days as HDTVs are pretty much affordable and found everywhere you go.
What I really do like about Toshibas is the fact that they all come with downgrade Media for Windows XP. I’d like to see this happen with HP, Dell, and other couple major laptop companies. Better yet, I’d like to see an option for Vista, not as a forced inclusion into the final price, don’t you agree?
