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11.20.07

Review: Toshiba Tecra A8

By Darren Straight

For the past week I've had in my possession a Toshiba Tecra A8 Notebook which I have thanks to Talk Toshiba and it's Tecra A8 triallist programme in which they give bloggers, journalists and community leaders the chance to test out their laptops for a week (more if you request) in exchange for writing an honest, objective review on your blog, forum and community site etc.

So as my week of tetsing the laptop is now coming to an end, I thought I'd better give you my review of it.

First of all the hardware specifications for the Toshiba Tecra A8 Notebook are as follows (this was gatherd using SiSoft Sandra):

Processor
Model Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
Speed 2.00GHz
Cores per Processor 2 Unit(s)
Threads per Core 1 Unit(s)
Type Mobile, Dual-Core
Internal Data Cache 2x 32kB Synchronous, Write-Thru, 8-way set, 64 byte line size
L2 On-board Cache 4MB ECC Synchronous, ATC, 16-way set, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing
L3 On-board Cache 2x 4MB Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set, 64 byte line size
Mainboard
Bus(es) ISA VL-VESA PCI PCIe PCMCIA CardBus USB FireWire/1394
MP Support No
MP APIC No
System BIOS TOSHIBA 1.60
System TOSHIBA TECRA A8
Mainboard TOSHIBA Portable PC
Total Memory 1016MB DDR2-SDRAM
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Chipset 1
Model Toshiba America Information Systems Mobile Memory Controller Hub
Front Side Bus Speed 4x 166MHz (664MHz data rate)
Total Memory 1GB DDR2-SDRAM
Shared Memory 8MB
Memory Bus Speed 4x 132MHz (528MHz data rate)
Video System
Monitor/Panel Default Monitor
Monitor/Panel Default Monitor
Monitor/Panel Default Monitor
Monitor/Panel Generic Television
Monitor/Panel Generic Television
Monitor/Panel Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor/Panel Plug and Play Monitor
Adapter Mobile Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset Family
Adapter Mobile Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset Family
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About the Author:
Darren Straight a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) and Windows Live Butterfly Expert is a University of Kent Student who is an avid blogger and technology enthusiast who loves the passion of beta testing new products and services from Microsoft.

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