My 12 yr old wants a laptop for Christmas, and i want her to stop using my Macbook Pro...seems I've found the perfect solution!

wangowezz wrote:It pisses me off whenever manufacturers try to mislead consumers by slapping the letters HD on any old screen. A 1600x900 screen is not high definition, anything labeled HD should be above 1920x1080.

1280×720 or 1366x768 is 720p, which last I checked is still an HD resolution. This being above that qualifies. Educational linky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_video

wangowezz wrote:It pisses me off whenever manufacturers try to mislead consumers by slapping the letters HD on any old screen. A 1600x900 screen is not high definition, anything labeled HD should be above 1920x1080.

Except that 720p is what most HDTV is transmitted in and this is a higher resolution than 720p.

The touch pad on my recent Toshiba (E300} is so weird I can't use it. Hope this one is not the same. You might want to check out in person at store.

People getting turned off by the word pentium must not know this....

Do not confuse these newer pentium chips with older netburst aka pentium 4 technology. These new chips are really based off core architecture aka core 2 duo or core 2 quad, they just don't have the same names or cache memory sizes. Check the benchmarks this laptop has plenty of cpu power for the price, it's the video chipset that will leave you wanting more.

StarKnightGoku wrote:And then quickly skip the Acer because they're almost universally junk.

I'm going to have to disagree with that statement. The wife and I have owned many different laptops. Acers, Toshibas and even a Dell, before I realized I was throwing away perfectly good grilled cheese making money. Anyway, those Acers are typically low budget laptops, but they are built to last and are designed for the average web surfing user in mind. I have one from 2007 that has been through some cruel punishment dished out by at least 10 road trips, 2 cats and 1 toddler. In fact at this very moment I am banging away this reply on said laptop. Thanks for the good times Acer!

I've had a Toshiba Satellite P35 since 2005, and it's running like a champ. Tempting to upgrade...

no HDMI????

The only thing good about this labtop this the screen real estate. Outdated processor, no hdmi, and only 2 usb ports?

This maybe would have been a deal 6 months ago, but since November there has been deals everywhere especially online.

Don't want to chop block Woot, but with a little bit of discipline and RSS feeds to certain deal sites(frontpage SD), I found numerous i5 and AMD quadcore labtops going on sale around the 400-450 mark, and i3 at the 300-350 dollar mark.

endangereddelicacies wrote:Oh man, grilled cheese sandwich sounds really good right now.

Aww man, I wish u wouldn't of said that, now I'm thinking of making one. Yummy cheesy inside and butter toasted on the outside. :-P

Does this have an Impact Smart HD? You know... cuz of zombies?

I just bought this same unit from Daily Steals for $299. Sure it's not for gaming and only having 2 USB ports kinda sucks but I bought a USB hub for $7, a USB mouse and a sound bar and wrapped it all up for my wife for Christmas. She will be using it for Microsoft Office work and general use so I consider this a real bargain. I have put tested it for movie playback and the Tru Bright screen looks great. If your a gamer find something better... If your getting this for a student for school work or general computing this is a great deal.

I love mine but mine was 299 at best buy last January-didn't see if it had Blu ray mine did-
Quality machine over the HP ones I have had,although my Emachine lasted longer than some of my HPs so who knows ya gotta go by the guts inside I guess over who makes it LOL

Its pretty shinny go buy it if you have the money

markmc27 wrote:I own basically this laptop except I have the Costco version from 9 months ago


Only problem with the Toshiba is been PRINTER DRIVERS. This answer took three hours on the tech support. Be sure to only down load PRINTER drivers using Internet Explorer not Fire Fox!

There I saved you hours of bizarre problems.

Woot on!

Merry "war on" Christmas

As far as I know, printer drivers are a function of the operating system, not the hardware. Perhaps someone could explain your comment.

I'm on my third Satellite and love it! I bought my first in 2004 and the thing is still running like a champ. Sure it's a lower end laptop in terms of power but for the price you can't beat it. I do plenty of gaming on the Satellite and it handles today's software demands just fine.

This model is big and heavy in terms of laptop size and weight. Also, if you're not used to the number pad on the keyboard layout it will take some time to get used to. To me a number pad layout on a laptop keyboard is annoying. For whatever reason it seems that most of the 17" models are featuring the number pad and I can't stand it.

Looking at the specs, this really isn't that great of a laptop, even for the price. You can get way more performance for the same or even less money these days.

I personally have an hp dv9000 series laptop i bought around february of 2006 for ~$1400. Its not very durable, bought for playing wow. It works but not great, even with the nvidia chipset. I recently had to reflow the GPU(not fun) and apparently i was lucky it lasted more than a year. From what i've read there have been a number of class action lawsuits against hp for the horribly ineffective cooling system they use in the laptops they sell.

I own 2 other laptops and a netbook that are all toshiba, and all cost under $400. I can say that in pretty much every aspect the toshibas are better laptops.

A 2 ghz processor? It's better as a Pannini press for 300$. That thing is an outdated Dino that you could easily replicate w an i7 core machine for maybe 200$ more. Oh. And a 300 gig hd that isn't an ssd? Is this from 2005?

Product website:
http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/satellite/C670/C675-S7200

including their spec sheet:
http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/product/pdf_files/detailed_specs/satellite_C675-S7200.pdf

video, 29 reviews (4 stars), that it was a "Walmart" exclusive store wise.

Product support page including user's guide, updated as of June 27, it looks like--can't directly link to the guide:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=SB&os=&category=&moid=3025136&rpn=PSC3UU&modelFilter=C675-S7200&selCategory=2756709&selFamily=1073768663

PCMag 2011: Toshiba quality pretty good (and from personal experience)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384243,00.asp

PC World: Toshiba near the top http://www.pcworld.com/article/244419/laptop_reliability_and_satisfaction_macbooks_rule.html

Recently purchased a reconditioned HP desktop from Woot; it arrived dead, and I have still not heard back from Woot!!!

What more do you need to know?

My personal experience with Toshiba laptops:

Christmas 2009 - bought a "WalMart Special" model - was really cheap ($299) and came with a Version of Vista that was the only OS available (supported) for it. I was able to reload Windows XP with little difficulty. It has been a decent laptop.

March 2011 - bought a high-end Qosmio (18.4" screen behemoth) for nearly 2 grand with hopes of using it as a universal virtualization platform I can travel with. It runs Windows 7. Cannot find a Linux distro that will recognize the SSD drives I want to use. Has been the MOST unstable OS I have used since Windows ME. Blue screens are a weekly occurrence (video or network seem to be the top offenders). Have battled drivers and the general suckiness that is Windows 7 (seriously - how do people love this made-for-snowmans OS??)

Personal opinion: once Toshiba releases a laptop, they pretty much forgets it exists. "Real" support in the form of updates, etc lasts about 3 months. Need support? Good luck - if you don't find it in the forums you are screw'd.

At the risk of bringing on the Internet Hate Machine, I am an IT professional with > 2 decades in the industry. I know a thing or two about networking, drivers, etc, etc.

End result:
Would never buy another Toshiba PC.

Enjoy your bargain laptop.

neoathalon wrote:I personally have an hp dv9000 series laptop i bought around february of 2006 for ~$1400. Its not very durable, bought for playing wow. It works but not great, even with the nvidia chipset. I recently had to reflow the GPU(not fun) and apparently i was lucky it lasted more than a year. From what i've read there have been a number of class action lawsuits against hp for the horribly ineffective cooling system they use in the laptops they sell.

Not surprising. I bought an HP Pavilion in 2006 and it sounded like a jet engine but still put out more heat than an electric blanket. Eventually it decided it got bored having a 1.8GHz processor and told Windows it was 800MHz instead...planned obsolescence, anyone? I didn't bother looking at HP models when I was in the market for an upgrade because I figured I'd just run into more problems.

As far as the CPU on this lappy, people whining about it would do well to put down the marketing Kool-aid and think about what specs are actually needed to do stuff. The Pentium B9xx is hardly an old chip, it's based on the Sandy Bridge architecture and was released about six months ago. Basically an i3 without Hyperthreading and with HD 2000 integrated graphics instead of HD 3000. More to the point, dual 2.0GHz is more than enough juice to do just about anything but gaming or video editing, the former is impossible without discrete graphics and it's debatable whether anyone would attempt the latter on a laptop. That said, it would be nice if more laptops did have discrete graphics so we at least have the option of doing high end stuff. Maybe after a few more design iterations AMD will cook up a decent APU and there will be better options.

Pufferfishy wrote:Have battled drivers and the general suckiness that is Windows 7 (seriously - how do people love this made-for-snowmans OS??)

I haven't had the BSODs but I've had more driver problems with 7 than XP. The IT guy at work can't even get my office machine to communicate with the network printer. Would have put XP on my new laptop except it's an i7 so I'm sort of stuck with Win 7 if I want to fully utilize it.

Small drive, for this day and age, only 2 USB ports (no mention if it's USB2 or USB3), one of which would have to be used to compensate for the lack of bluetooth.

The price is good, but once you replace the drive with a .5T or better, and add in the missing 4GB of memory that it should have shipped with, it's suddenly not all that great. And no Blu-ray? What's up with that?

Laptops went out with the Dinosaurs. We use tablets and smart phones now.

5 full mailing days and it's "too late" for christmas? Really woot.

true559 wrote:Laptops went out with the Dinosaurs. We use tablets and smart phones now.

Yeah - they're so awesome for running 5 VMs or Adobe Creative Suite

Not everyone spends the entire day on Facedbook and Twitter discussing awesome parking at Target or "surprises" at the Free Clinic.

My chance to be woot apologist, goody goody:

Prime Suspect wrote:Small drive, for this day and age, only 2 USB ports (no mention if it's USB2 or USB3), one of which would have to be used to compensate for the lack of bluetooth.

The price is good, but once you replace the drive with a .5T or better, and add in the missing 4GB of memory that it should have shipped with, it's suddenly not all that great. And no Blu-ray? What's up with that?

It has 4 GB--read carefully. I have a parent with an older model, and it's good enough at 2 GB, doesn't have Blue-ray and wouldn't care if it did (neither would I--I've never bought Blue-ray anything). I've never used Bluetooth, either. It may not be what you're looking for, but if my parent didn't have a Toshiba, I'd probably buy this (and the HD on the old model is the same size as this, maybe smaller).

true559 wrote:Laptops went out with the Dinosaurs. We use tablets and smart phones now.

Speak for yourself. I've worked from notebooks for years, have no desire or need to change now. I can live without a smart phone or tablet for my personal life, and it's obviously selling to someone.

cen1 wrote:5 full mailing days and it's "too late" for christmas? Really woot.

Haven't been around here long, huh? Woot has been posting "too late" on some products before today. Part of their cost reductions is shipping inexpensively (e.g., slowly), that's the tradeoff with woot, especially "smartpost" (I know today's is ground shipping). If it's really that important to have it ON Christmas day, then buy something else somewhere elsewhere. One year I couldn't get the "perfect gift" because it was on back-order, I wrapped the picture of the gift in 5 containers. The person was okay with it because he really liked the gift. If it's really worth it, the receiver hopefully will understand.

Larger than 17" screen,
Dual intel cpu,
4GB ram
About $300,

Common guys where else you find one at this price?

Is their a operating system with this ?
any software?

ruthrwd wrote:Is their a operating system with this ?

Per the product description on the front page of woot, Windows 7 Home Premium.

ruthrwd wrote:Is their a operating system with this ?
any software?

Per detailed specs PDF on support page

Software C1 13
 Toshiba Software and Utilities
o TOSHIBA App PlaceSM
o TOSHIBA Assist
o TOSHIBA BookPlace™
o TOSHIBA Bulletin Board
o TOSHIBA Disc Creator
o TOSHIBA Face Recognition
o TOSHIBA HDD/SSD Alert
o TOSHIBA HW Setup Utility
o TOSHIBA Laptop Checkup
o TOSHIBA Media Controller14
o TOSHIBA Recovery Disc Creator
o TOSHIBA ReelTime
o TOSHIBA Service Station
o TOSHIBA Sleep Utility
o TOSHIBA Supervisor Password Utility
o TOSHIBA Upconvert Plug-in for Media Player15
o TOSHIBA Value Added Package
o TOSHIBA Web Camera Application
 Third-party Software
o Adobe® Acrobat® Reader
o Adobe® AIR® Runtime
o Google® Toolbar
o Google® Chrome
o Internet Explorer
o Microsoft® Live Essentials
 Photo Gallery
 Messenger
 Mail
 Writer
 Movie Maker
o Microsoft® Office Starter 201016
o Microsoft® Silverlight™
o Microsoft® Windows Media Player 12
o WildTangent® Games Console
 Special Offers and Trial Software
o KidZui™, The Internet for Kids
o NetZero® Internet Service
o Norton Internet Security™ 2011 (30-day trial subscription)
o Quickbooks® Online Banking
o Skype®
o Toshiba Online Backup (30-day trial subscription)

Personally, I'd remove the WildTangent thing if I were buying this, as soon as possible, not that I wouldn't remove other things (the 30 day trial subscription to NIS 2011 though comes in handy until you decide what you want to buy--I have NIS 2011, but probably cheaper to buy from the website (like you didn't own it) or 3rd party web retailer, with coupon code of course, like from retailmenot or coupon cabin.).

This looks like a good deal,but what the heck is with the advertisement banner at the top of the woot.com screen????

zelgadis123 wrote:The only thing good about this labtop this the screen real estate. Outdated processor, no hdmi, and only 2 usb ports?

This maybe would have been a deal 6 months ago, but since November there has been deals everywhere especially online.

Don't want to chop block Woot, but with a little bit of discipline and RSS feeds to certain deal sites(frontpage SD), I found numerous i5 and AMD quadcore labtops going on sale around the 400-450 mark, and i3 at the 300-350 dollar mark.

As you noted, it depends on how hard one wants to search (time=money), although links would help to a few of them. For example, a quick check of Amazon for i3 16-17.9 inch 4G RAM notebooks start at $499.

I don't doubt you in the least that those bargains are out there for faster processors, but when I bought a new Toshiba notebook 1.5 years ago, it was because of the big 17"screen and decent specs for around $500 then that a parent could handle. When I looked back then, getting the 17" screen cheaply was the problem.

Increase the price to about $1500, make it alot prettier it could be a macbook with those features.

I will also say - get ready for overhead - if this OS image is anything like mine the tools and add-ons Toshiba loads will leave your PC at about 10% CPU utilization when idle, and about 95 processes running (and I have a quad-core i7!!) What's hilarious is that one of the processes / software bits is Toshi's "eco" software....

Removal can be difficult as odd things break (e.g. - there's a flippin' service that HAS to be running just to play Blu-Ray DVDs!)

YMMV - this may just be a Win7 thing (this is my only PeeCee running it)

Pufferfishy wrote:I will also say - get ready for overhead - if this OS image is anything like mine the tools and add-ons Toshiba loads will leave your PC at about 10% CPU utilization when idle, and about 95 processes running (and I have a quad-core i7!!) What's hilarious is that one of the processes / software bits is Toshi's "eco" software....

Removal can be difficult as odd things break (e.g. - there's a flippin' service that HAS to be running just to play Blu-Ray DVDs!)

YMMV - this may just be a Win7 thing (this is my only PeeCee running it)

Clean OS installs have been necessary for quite a while to get rid of bloatware. I've installed Win7 on plenty of machines, even older XP ones that had the minimum hardware and it runs great. I'm sorry you are having difficulty with 7 on your one machine, but I'd stay away from blanket statements that Toshiba and Windows 7 are terrible.

I got a Toshiba Satellite laptop 4 years ago. We had it 8 months and the screen cracked down the middle because a cat brushed against the back of the laptop as I was using it. It must have been faulty, but after a long runaround with Toshiba we gave up on using it as a laptop as the screen cost more than a new laptop to replace We only used it hooking it to the TV to stream movies. Now that we have a blue ray player and a Roku it collects dust.

In my experience Toshiba satellites are not to bad for a basic laptop for word processing and email, but be forewarned that the hardware is extremely cheap and flimsy. The screens crack very easily, and it's not worth replacing the LCD screen. Toshiba has the worst customer service if you do have a problem.

I would not be interested in this laptop because it has no HDMI and only 2 USB ports. The Toshiba was about the most flimsy computer I ever owned.

For anyone interested in virtualization on this one (the memory looks tempting) - the B940 doesn't do VT-x (see : http://ark.intel.com/products/55626/Intel-Pentium-Processor-B940-(2M-Cache-2_00-GHz) )

Please let me know if I'm reading this wrong - but this means that it's not much good as a portable dev machine for me.

I hate Toshiba's electronics. I have yet to know someone (not including online) that has anything good to say about them.