Satellite M50 reviews anyone?

I think I finaly narrowed down my Laptop search to the Satellite M50-S418TD laptop. However, I cannot for the life of me find any reviews on it. I, like everyone else on here, have heard rumors about Toshiba's being of poor quality and such, but I've heard a lot of good things to. I don't REALY wanna get a dell since I'm going to be taking this computer around college and I don't wanna just blend in

I had it customize this laptop so it's not the base line modle either (1.7GHz, 1Gig ram are the most noteable). And I'm not going to be using this for gaming and probibly no movies either (I have a powerhouse of a desktop for that ).

Any pro's, con's, or general advice on this laptop would be of a great help! Thanks!

 

well, we have a review of the Toshiba Satellite M55 that'll be posted this week, it's the same as the M50 except it has a Pentium M instead of Celeron M processor from what I can tell. check back weds. or thurs. for the review on the front of the site.

 

Actually, if you customize the M50, it has both a Celeron AND a Pentium M processor (according to the Toshiba.com web site), while the M50 in Canada only has the Pentium M procesor.

This is good news because I've been thinking of getting the M50 here in Canada and seeing as how it is very close to the US M55 specs, your review will help me decide. Thanks

 

M50's in Hong Kong (and Asia Pacific) sometimes have a X600SE 128MB plus Hypermemory (ick).

 

Hw's this M50's GPU? The one with the x600se? Can it doom 3 native? How bout farcry native? i tot Toshiba usually sticks with nvidia. How come they didn't put in a 6600? Think they'll put 1 in? liek that model. nice blue color

 

Yes, M50 HK version is using ATi X600se with 128MB RAM

http://www.chevalier-itech.com/toshiba/eng/product/notebook/satellite/pdf/SM50_01N00Q.PDF

 

How's its gaming capability?
Wanted to know that one.
Thanx

 

I am curious how the gaming will be on the A5 with the 6200 64 meg.

 

I bought the M50 yesterday and right out of the box I had nothing but a beauty and performance. This is my 6th laptop but not all Toshiba. I've had, Averatec, DELL 1150, DELL 700M, IBM T30, Gateway 7330GZ and this is my latest one. I also added an extra 512 memory to it which screems now. Every application such as MS Office 2003 Pro, Visio 2003, Project 2003 and many other Adobe application are working and opening like a speed of light. I do digital photography and I have had no problem rendering images at any size or modify the image colors. This is truly an amazing machine and very stylish as well. As I said, I have had my share of owning or using other makes and models but this one tops them all. Go for it.

 

It would be great if you can run 3DMark2005 with everything else turned off and tell us the mark. Indeed you would be the first to do so.

 

Does the memory need to be paired or can I add an extra 1GB to the base 512MB?

 

Played with one of these computers today at Costco.... nice screen, but i can't say i'm too too impressed with the build quality. The case seemed to flex fairly easily and the buttons weren't very well constructed. Even though i wasn't doing anything intensive at all... i could feel warmth on the right wrist area which makes me wonder what happens after an hour or two of more rigorous usage.

 

Hi!
those are the results of Toshiba M50-130
System Configuration

General Information
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
DirectX Version 9.0c
Mobo Manufacturer TOSHIBA
Mobo Model ECU00
AGP Rates (Current/Available) N/A / N/A
CPU Intel Pentium M 1729 MHz
FSB 0 MHz
Memory 510 MB

Display Information
Graphics Chipset ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 SE
Driver Name ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 SE (Omega 2.6.75a)
Driver Version 6.14.10.6575
Driver Status Non WHQL - Not FM Approved
Video Memory 128 MB
Core Clock 715 MHz
Memory Clock 276 MHz

Benchmark Settings
Program Version 3DMark05 Revision 2 Build 0
Resolution 1024x768@32 bit
Anti-Aliasing None
Texture Filtering Optimal
Vertex Shader Profile 2_0
Pixel Shader Profile 2_0
Force Full Precision Off
Disable DST Off
Disable Post-processing Off
Force Software Vertex Shaders Off
Color Mipmaps Off
Repeat Count Off

Main Test Results
3DMark Score 1197 3DMarks
CPU Score 3084 CPUMarks

Detailed Test Results

Game Tests
GT1 - Return To Proxycon 5.5 fps
GT2 - Firefly Forest 3.5 fps
GT3 - Canyon Flight 5.7 fps

CPU Tests
CPU Test 1 1.6 fps
CPU Test 2 2.6 fps

Feature Tests
Fill Rate - Single-Texturing N/A
Fill Rate - Multi-Texturing N/A
Pixel Shader N/A
Vertex Shader - Simple N/A
Vertex Shader - Complex N/A

Batch Size Tests
8 Triangles N/A
32 Triangles N/A
128 Triangles N/A
512 Triangles N/A
2048 Triangles N/A
32768 Triangles N/A

 

I also tried one out at Costco about two months ago and was impressed by the screen and the build quality. Despite what some have said, the model I used at least had no noticable flex or anything like that. The screen was very bright and impressive. Can't remember if there was any heat issues.