Take your piggy bank. Now, smash it open — what have you? $350 plus change? And you need a laptop? Well, come right over here, sir. Yes, welcome to Wal-Mart. We’re going to… no, not a netbook. Sir, do you want to watch your Boston Public on a 10-inch screen? I thought not. Right over here, with the regular laptops, all the way to the left. Yes, it has a 17″ screen and a — what? No, I understand you only have $350. You say you won’t be a part of any criminal act? Admirable, sir, but we are not stealing the laptop. No, $350 is enough.
The Toshiba Satellite L355. You want a DVD burner? Here you have it. A nice big screen? You see it. Full-size keyboard and number pad? Anything less would be uncivilized. Well-built, fairly well-equipped except for a slower-than-average 5400RPM hard drive (it’s big) and a less-than-stellar Celeron processor (it’s adequate). Yes, $350 is the actual price.
Excellent choice, sir.
So, how much does this beast weigh?
The price is the only good thing about that notebook. However, there is definitely a large market for just that. Hopefully this will help drive down the prices of nicer notebooks. I’m dying to get a MSI X320, but at $580 for so little, its just too much right now. $499 or less would be the sweet spot for me. I’ll probably go with the Asus 1005HA though. Cheaper is cheaper after-all and at $380, that enormous battery life is just too good to pass up.
nice…amazing that 17″ were 800-1000 or more just a year or so ago.
How much RAM? Hard drive space?
-3GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz, expandable to 4GB.
-250GB SATA Hard Drive
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=12170483#Specifications
Laptops are also available through rental service which means a better and affordable ways of acquiring one.
Labtops are the new gig in town…great I can’t live w/o it…n