Toshiba seemed to have been very slow rolling out their new Toshiba 4Gb Laptop range, were they worth the wait?  Let’s take a look under the hood of two of Toshiba’s best sellers.

#1 – Toshiba Satellite P505-S8980 18.4″ Notebook

Toshiba 4Gb Laptop

Cliff Notes: This laptop packs  a serious punch, probably the fastest we have had in stock to date.

The laptop ships with a dual core 2.2gb Core 2 Duo T6600 + a whooping 4Gb of Ram (6Gb in the very latest models).  500 Gb HDD as standard, Blu-ray and windows 7 premium are also standard.

Price $1099 (Just reduced from $1599)

This Toshiba laptop packs a very large mobile screen so it’s not idea for a lot of travelling but it is surprisingly light.  Colours and depth on the screen are excellent.  Sound from the built in speakers was a great surprize, so to was the almost silent running.  It also comes in two styles (matt or shiney)

Blu-ray movies ran very smoothly, the two games we tested also ran incredibly fast (Bioshock + left4dead2)

Pros: Performance & Huge Screen.

Cons: Could be considered too large for everyday transport.

#2 – Toshiba Satellite L455-S5008 Notebook Computer

A great budget laptop comes with an Intel Pentium T4400 2.2GHz.  We had a few problems getting this laptop going, we needed to install the latest service pack from microsoft, but we are told this is now included in future models.

4GB DDR3 / 250GB HD / 15.6″ HD LCD / DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive / 802.11b/g WLAN / Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Price $499 (Just reduced from $529)

Pros: Compact, lightweight & fantastic value at $499

Cons: Needed new drivers installed on our test machine.