Toshiba Satellite L775-S7307

Just did a search of the toshiba forum for "l775" and didn't find anything, so i thought i'd start this thread. I got this laptop on a black friday/cyber monday special for $370ish, and i'm totally happy with it!

Pros:

-Nice 1600x900 resolution screen, a little dark, but i'm happy with it.
-Keyboard is nice, not backlit, but it's comfy and i type along nicely.
-For a 17" laptop it's light, i think about 7 lbs? i can lift it with one hand.
-The processor isn't an i7 or anything, but i can play 1080p youtube videos, with no problem fullscreen, League of Legends plays great, I really am happy with the processor power.
-The num keypad, nice for typing in numbers if you do your bills/finances.

Cons:

-It's not a dell xps like i wanted, but then again, i paid 370 vs. the 900+ i would have paid for a dell xps 17. so this isn't really a con...


overall, i really like this big old laptop and i carry it to work with me everyday, even though it barely fits in my messenger bag. it's light enough, just the size makes it a bit awkward, but still i give this laptop a 9/10.

 

Its got the bare bones intel processor but I believe its still clocked at 2.1Ghz which should be fine for basic email, internet etc. It won't have as much head room for demanding multitasking etc. But for that price, you can't put your expectations too high. The only thing I don't care for is that model uses a ton of glossy materials. From what I have read, Toshiba makes good hardware, their support is really lacking down there in Irvine Ca. Just pray you won't have a need to call them. I just ordered a P740 pretty loaded up and like you, I can't find much info on that make. The trouble is that Toshiba is not a volume manufacturer. Not nearly as many of these in the market like you see HP's or Dells. Reviews are scarce to say the least. But they did drop some crazy good deals on Black Friday. Already my configuration for my P740 went from 900 even to around 1058 for the same machine if I built it today.

Interestingly, back in the late eighties Toshiba was the best laptop on the market. They were the standard to beat hands down. I would say that Apple probably has the best built notebooks today, but I would not touch them with a ten foot pole. The late Steve jobs once said that consumers don't know what they want and that Apple needs to show and provide what that experience should be. Its that ideology that has divided people into two distinct camps. There really is no in between. You either hate them or love them.

At anyrate, I think the best PC notebooks are probably made by Toshiba and maybe some of the high end Sony's. Business line HP's and Dells, and Hp envy are also good stuff. But for the best built cheap machines, I'm thinking Toshiba may be best, but thats only based on a few comments I have read.

I always question those PC repair guys that say they see fewer problems with Toshibas. Yeah, there is allot less of them out there to break, so naturally, there will be less brought in to be repaired.

 

First, here is a copy of the spec sheet (attached) from Toshiba | Laptops | Computers | us.toshiba.com
I just bought one for my husband.
It is a replacement for one of two Dell M5010 that have been nothing but trouble since the day we bought them. In fact, we had to open a dispute with them due to their inability to fix one. They have the worst customer service I have ever seen.

I used to work in tech support and have owned Sony's, HP's, Toshiba's and unfortunately two Dell's. Both the Sony & Toshiba are still running, albeit on Windows XP (they are that old) and I am using the HP right now. It is a Pavillion dv9930us. The fan has died twice, but each time they had me send it to them and I got it back within a week. Dell took close to 2 months and never actually fixed the problem, plus the other one is getting blue screens and gives me an error every time I try to do a system restore.

In short, the Toshiba should be good if you aren't a gamer or some other uber user and be happy you did not spend the money on a Dell.

 

Generally speaking, Toshibas are good laptops. Although they don't make anything inside as we all know that the components are manufactured by various respected companies such as Intel, AMD, nVidia, etc. which in the same case sells and distributes to ALL other computer brands. The only two things they do is design the outer casings, and structure the software to work along with its brand; you can probably call this 'bloatware'. You will find good and bad apples everywhere, it's just some are more than others.

My Satellite never gave me any major problems, it starts up fine and connect. Certain things I didn't like about are some small bugs here and there after it wakes from sleep mode, usb connection, etc., The major thing I didn't like from Toshiba (which prompted me to buy something else) was their styling and the material that was used.