APR 19 (PRINTWORDS NEWS)- The latest sandy bridge platform based laptops are coming up in the market and Toshiba’s latest contender to the brigade is the Satellite A665-S6100X. It is brimming with new technology in CPU power and connectivity. It is not cheap but people with deep pockets will surely appreciate its sheer CPU power and media handling capabilities. The graphics performance however gets bottlenecked by an integrated GPU chip.

The Toshiba A665-S6100X has a dark gray textured finish. The lid is textured and it looks great but the trim around it is a fingerprint magnet. The same can be said about the keyboard deck. The keyboard has isolated key format along with a separate numeric keypad. The Touchpad is recessed and it is easy to use. Between the dual speakers of the laptop there are a row of 7 Touch sensitive buttons. The laptop’s Harman Kardon speakers generate above average quality sound.

The 15.6-inch display of the Toshiba A665-S6100X has a 1,366 by 768 resolution. It is definitely not FullHD but is ideal for watching movies. The Blu Ray drive is a nice addition in the laptop. The screens glossy coating makes it reflective outdoors. The viewing angles are quite decent for a laptop of this class. The inclusion of a USB 3.0 port with Sleep and Charge is great for the users. The inclusion of a HDMI port means you can connect it to your LCD HDTV and enjoy Blu Ray movies at 1080p quality. There is webcam as well as a multi format card reader. When it comes to wireless connectivity the Toshiba A665-S6100X reigns supreme over other contenders. You get WiMAX 4G broadband, 802.11 AGN Wi-Fi along with Intel’s WiDi. All these are fine but it would have been great had Toshiba offered a 7200 RPM hard drive in this model. The 640GB bundled HD has a spindle rate of 540RPM.

Along with Windows 7 Home Premium edition, Toshiba packs in a lot of utilities for the buyers of this model. In media apps the laptop performs very well thanks to its 6GB of DDR3 RAM and Intel Core i7-2630QM processor. The Intel’s integrated HD Graphics 3000 GPU may lack the punch for hardcore gaming but its media encoding guts are admirable. In CPU intensive tests it comes very close to the performance of Apple Macbook Pro. The battery life of the laptop is not much impressive though it is okay for most f the users.

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