Toshiba Tecra R840

Own DesignFast and classy performanceGreat keyboardGood battery lifeAn HDMI port would be more useful than the DisplayPortExpensive

Toshiba Tecra range is intended for those looking for a laptop to use primarily for the work. Final offer of the company, the R840 of Tecra 14 inches-11th, seems to fit the Bill, that it is not fair and light, but also packs a powerful blow when it comes to performance. You can choose it for approximately £ 1,050.


R840-11th eyes as a company without being totally boring. The matte black plastic on the chassis is unlikely to show scratches as evil the shiny coating, you will find on most consumer machines, and we love the ridged pattern that graces the wrists and the lid. There are also some beautiful chrome highlighting used on the hinges of the chunky screen, and it is found in the smoke-filled chromium which covers the trackpad buttons. Add in the fact that the laptop is relatively small and light and you have a package full classy.


Toshiba has opted for a 14 inch screen with a matte finish, rather than on glossy paper, to conserve the reflections to a minimum. The screen is bright and color punch through I. That said, the angles of view are not quite as wide that we expected form a model in this price range, and resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels is nothing special.


The keyboard is in a different category. It is truly one of the best that we come across. It uses broad, flat keys that have enough space between them, but what separated sets is just how strong and appropriate action is.


Keyboard set the temperature of our shells soared.

Unlike most laptops of today, the 11th R840 has a pointer stick and a trackpad. There are two sets of trackpad buttons - one above the ramp for when you use the pointer and a below for when you are in based on the keypad.


There is also a dedicated button for turning off the buffer and the pointer when you use your laptop with an external mouse. Both the pointer and the buffer are a pleasure to use, and the buttons seemed very solid and reliable during our test period.


R840-11th packs a Sandy Bridge processor dual-core Intel Core i5-2520M, running at 2.5 GHz. He has also 4 GB of RAM, which is enough to give room for operating system Windows 7 Professional of this notebook to stretch their legs. The processor is fast enough, as evidenced by his reference to 7,315 PCMark05 score. It will have little dealing with disorder of the most demanding business apps.


One of the benefits of the latest Sandy Bridge processors is that they understand much faster integrated graphics than previous bullets of the company. In 3DMark06, this has contributed to the laptop to 4,053, you will be able to play older games on it, but it does not go to run the latest shooters of the first person at a decent rate.


Elsewhere, the spec is quite impressive. 320 GB hard drive is reasonably spacious and there are many other locations and the ports. Above the DVD burner, for example, there is a smart card reader, and you also get an ExpressCard slot and SD card reader.


On the one hand, you will find a 3.0 USB port, while on the other hand, there is a USB 2.0 port, as well as a port eSATA and USB dual function which is very practical for the fast connection of the fast peripherals such as external hard drives. There is also a VGA connector and Toshiba included a DisplayPort too, although there still aren't that many monitors DisplayPort compatible on the market.


Your laptop battery life is not bad. He managed to run for 1 hour and 41 minutes in the classic Eater battery test. It is a very tax test, continually running the processor at full stroke up to what the battery dies, therefore, under actual conditions, you should get much more long battery life.


If you need a laptop computer for purposes of work, the Toshiba Tecra R840-11F is well worth considering. There a lot of muscle under the hood, the keyboard is excellent, and its battery life and design are also decent.

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