For those with reasonable needs, this Netbook Tops

By C. Lee (Chicagoland)

This review is for: Toshiba Mini NB305-N440RD

Let's get real here. Netbooks are NOT a substitute for those of you that people should be shopping for a notebook. Once in possession of at least four Toshiba notebooks in the past and currently on my first Sony laptop, I would expect these machines to do the heavy lifting ... Photo serious shopping, DV editing, CAD modeling, rendering, gaming, etc. It would be moderate irresponsible thing netbooks how inadequate they are in these functions. In this sense, fills the Toshiba NB305-N440 is a very useful role for those of you who already have a full-fledged notebook or desktop seed in the background.

Toshiba's Netbook 3 weight and size makes it incredibly agile, manageable and stowed away. Grab her by the hand circulation alone, they attack the hinges, or with a shovel to it from below, there is construction feels solid and stable when you do not have anything to worry fallen this type of abuse. You pay for existing laptop users, ever get the feeling, 80% to take the backpack that about bohemoth ... Or how about trying to use a 15 "screen on the dining-tray in the cattle section of an economy flight? Especially if you only use a few paragraphs for a meeting, class, or e-compose mail rant ? The NB305 Netbook remedy exactly. The 10.1 "screen, you can easily be bent away from you, even if the passenger in front to stay lying down during the flight decision. Size and weight. Advantage? Netbook.

Unlike other netbooks, Toshiba NB305 has is a design that accommodates a six-cell battery as standard. No outrageous goofy protrusion as HP and Sony's extra-cost offering. With cover, is the whole package as slim and stowable less than its competitors with three-cell designs. And because the Toshiba NB305 has a 6-cell Li-Ion as the default, corresponds to the real world use on a 5-7 hour run time with the brightness set to max, while stomping on tasks that make the disk thrash around. For a decade, with two-hour notebook, its amazing, for so long away from a wall outlet.

Do you need to be productive, while highly mobile? The Toshiba NB305 N440-suited for this task. I can not really ding it for lack of internal Bluetooth Toshiba now that their low-profile features dongles. Yes, it takes a precious USB port, but it would make up for it with its versatility in handling a (Bluetooth) mouse, headset, smart phone, pencil tray, etc. The streamlined 6-cell battery and other advanced features such as LED backlight , USB charging cable, diminutive AC adapter, and Draft-N WiFi makes this a targeted Netbook. price point in its offers the NB305-N440 netbook a high degree of functionality "out-of-the-box, radiates a good amount of robustness comes with a 3-year warranty and is from a company that was in Mobile Computing born to's fast two decades.