Toshiba Tecra M2 Reviews
Laptop magazine has a Toshiba Tecra M2 review and writes:
“Inside its svelte silhouette, the Toshiba M2 packs more than enough power for the average PowerPoint pie chart. A Pentium M processor hums along at 1.7 GHz, aided by a sizeable 512MB of memory. With a 60GB hard drive, our test unit was well equipped for lots and lots of slideshows.
As befits a high-end Toshiba notebook, ours came with 802.11b/g compatibility, as well as Bluetooth. The notebook’s 14.1-inch screen has XGA native resolution, a good match for most of today’s projectors.
For extra graphics punch, the screen is powered by Nvidia GeForce Go5200 graphics and 64MB of video memory. And, for outputting your presentation, the Toshiba Tecra M2 notebook has not only the standard VGA port, but also S-video.”
The conclusion of this review is that at $1,899, the Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop is not only very friendly to presenters but to their accountants as well.
Another review for the Tecra M2 laptop from Toshiba comes from PC Magazine:
The well-rounded Toshiba Tecra M2 is a good choice if you need a versatile two-drive notebook for business use. This mainstream model delivers good wireless throughput and lots of battery and optical drive options—all in the least expensive mainstream model in our roundup.
Weighing 4.9 pounds, the unit is easy to tote. The Tecra M2’s I/O offerings are average: two USB ports, a FireWire port, a parallel port, wired and wireless Ethernet, Bluetooth, two PC Card slots, and a Secure Digital slot.
For a business-class portable, the low-priced Tecra M2 is a solid, well-rounded system that can compete well with systems from Dell, HP, and IBM.
At ZDnet Reviews, the Toshiba Tecra M2-S630laptop receives a “Very Good” (7.2 points) rating:
“Toshiba has extended its fleet of corporate thin-and-lights with the Tecra M2, priced and equipped to please not only the world’s IT managers but also self-employed entrepreneurs who compute on the road. The Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop deploys practical technology, including an easy-to-carry chassis, a built-in optical drive, and three forms of wireless communication.
Tecra M2 it’s a solid business laptop; in our labs’ tests, the Tecra M2 performed on a par with other 1.7GHz Pentium M systems. But it’s not quite as fast or as long-lasting as the latest Dothan laptops.”
The good things: Long-lasting battery; small and easy to carry; swappable media bay; Wi-Fi and Bluetooth standard.
PC Plus writes in a Toshiba Tecra M2 Review:
In Tosh’s defence, the Tecra M2 does at least use the most future-proof of the current chips: the 1.7GHz Pentium-M, or the 735 as Intel’s new naming strategy (see page xxxx) would have us call it. This is placed within the 855PM ‘Centrino’ chipset, providing it with the surroundings in which it feels most at home. Standing proudly alongside it are two DIMMs of DDR333 RAM, adding up to a total of 512MB of system memory.
130 points within MobileMark2002 isn’t the kind of thing to leave us completely satisfied; we’ve seen machines with the same basic set-up return scores that beat that by more than 50. A battery life of three hours and 37 minutes is hardly revolutionary, but neither is it low enough to disappoint us.”
