Toshiba Portege A601 Notebook Review

New business models-PortegeA601, also let us shines, light body, fresh and elegant white and pink colors are so quiet laptop show the beauty of Asian women. Appearance of the superior and relatively pure internal echoes, Toshiba PortegeA601 LED LCD screen, large and comfortable keyboard, Intel Centrino 2 platform gave users a excellent experience. Do not just satisfied with this, the new hard drive protection, peripheral functions, and so are the Toshiba PortegeA601 charge flaunt bright spot, I believe that Toshiba Portege A600 battery the finalists will have a good performance.

First, the Toshiba Portege A601 appearance and weight

The new Toshiba Portege A601 Toshiba appearance before the launch of the Portege R500 series has a look similar, with tough full-R500 using silver metal body design is different, A601 features a new color paint materials, regardless of from the shell to the keyboard, and both light exudes fashion.
Toshiba Portege A601 targeted at female users, there are 2 colors to choose from, a powder for the Guerlain, another is crystal white snow, the whole weight of only 1.41Kg, the whole thickness of 29.9MM very light, A601 perfect the performance, functionality, lightweight, the perfect combination of price only in the million or less.

Second, the Toshiba Portege A601 configuration and performance

Toshiba Portege A601 configuration with a low-voltage version of Intel’s latest Core 2 Duo U9300 processor, with a 1.2GHz clock speed, 1066MHz front side bus frequency of the FSB and 3MB of L2 cache, compared with the normal voltage of the CPU It’s smaller, more power and excellent energy performance, and performance but did not discount; in chipset Toshiba Portege A601 is thin and light notebook with Intel for the field of small size GS45 northbridge chip, with the 5100 Wireless network module of the notebook Toshiba Portege A600 battery has a standard set of Centrino 2 systems. Elsewhere, Toshiba Portege A601 comes standard on-board 1GB DDR2 667 system memory 2.5-inch 160GB SerialATA hard drive, and 6-cell 5800 mA battery,lightweight and durable balance between user needs.
Toshiba Portege A601 basic hardware configuration table
Processor
Intel Core2 U9300 1.20GHZ
Cache
3M L2
Front Side Bus
1066MHz FSB
Main Chipset
Intel GS45 + ICH9M
Memory
1G DDR2 667
Graphics
GMA X4500 Graphics
Memory
Shared memory
Monitor
12 “inch glossy widescreen, 16:10 ratio, resolution: 1280 × 800
Sound card
Realtek C262
Hard disk
TOSHIBA MK1652GSX 160G
CD-ROM
MATSHITA DVD-RAW UJ862AS
Wireless Network
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Network
Intel 82567V
Communicate
Motorola SM56 Data Fax Modem
Battery
6-cell lithium battery 5800 milliamperes when
Weight
Toshiba A601 body weight 1.4Kg
Travel weight 1.8145Kg battery weight 306Kg
In CPU-Z we see that the processor named Intel Core2 Duo U9300, a low-voltage processor, and Think padX301 using the same processor. Core VID voltage of 0.988V. U9300 with Penryn Toshiba Portege R505 battery core with 3MB cache and 1066MHz front side bus frequency.
wPrime is a circle with the same rate of Super Pi calculation software, but can only support single-threaded Super Pi is different, wPrime can support up to eight threads, that can support eight cores, and test the multi-core processors When performance is more accurate than Super Pi.
CineBench use of film and television industry, software development, Cinema 4D special effects engine, you can test the CPU and graphics performance. CineBench10 the last point more potential drain system, accurately reflects the system performance.
CINEBENCH R10 from the test data, dual-core 25011 score is not high, and the Pentium dual-core performance results close to, this is due to the use of ultra-low voltage processor, while the low frequency direct result of the processor performance, but As the A601 itself is located in the mobile office, a lot of time Toshiba Portege A601 battery is required from the power supply, choose a low-power processor is especially important on the obvious, but also to ensure that its stand-up four and a half hours.
Toshiba A601 comes equipped with 6-cell 5800 mA battery, this test of the 6-cell 5800mAh battery for detailed measurements. From the test results, the battery power remaining 97 percent of the cases, the battery life can be well reached 255 minutes, DVD playback without interruption to 205 minutes, standby time is very good; overall performance of 115 points, the test is quite satisfactory, satisfactory performance.

Third, the Toshiba Portege A601 and operating experience

Toshiba A601 surface temperature controlled well in 18-degree room temperature for a long time running at full capacity, thermal control, after nearly three hours of performance test use, the Toshiba A601 C-face surface of the main keyboard area just in the right hand palm rest temperature position, the average temperature of 36 degrees, the operator comfort have some impact, but still within the acceptable range. Good temperature control in other regions, no significant heat felt.
Toshiba A601 at the bottom of the peak Toshiba Portege A602 battery temperature and maximum temperature of the outlet location, but remain the highest at 38 degrees or less. Can be seen on the Toshiba A601 is still in the heat always maintained good control, giving a fairly good operating experience. Toshiba A601 basic common interfaces are complete, the left side of the Ethernet interface and USB2.0 interface is set too close to some, there may be some inconvenience to the left of the grille in the middle, use an external mouse for left-handed person or left natural on the left will also cause some discomfort. In addition, the bottom of a dedicated expansion slot interface, easy to expand.
Toshiba A601 used in transflective LCD high-brightness LED light source can help to improve the external display, so just solution to a common liquid crystal display in the outdoor environment is difficult to identify the shortcomings. Proven, A601′s LCD screen in the indoor environment does need a more oblique angle to get better display results, because this time to get more outside light. In the outdoor environment, A601′s performance is better than regular LCD screen, but still want to avoid the sun shining directly on the screen, otherwise the reflected light Toshiba Portege A605 battery is too strong still can not see the picture on the LCD screen.
The left side of the interface:
From left to right are: power connector, VGA output interface, E-SATA USB2.0 interface, cooling air outlet, USB2.0 interface, headphone MIC interface, volume control knob.
Right side of the interface:
The right side of the interface from left to right are: Express Card, CD-ROM, wireless network switch, USB2.0 interface, RJ45 Ethernet interface
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