Hello everyone.
I just purchased the TOSHIBA Satellite C50D-A-133 15.6” Laptop from PC world for £300. I wanted a good all round Laptop... something that I could easily take to university, work on, play low end games on and just general use.
Now I've noticed some flaws in this Laptop. This picture quality is mediocre... I expected more from a £300 Laptop. But this isn't my main issue, it freezes (Mozilla crashes a lot), the mouse is on the left hand side (I'm right handed), the arrow keys are tiny and most of all... it struggles with playing games (I understand this is a graphics card issue, but expected it to be able to handle low-graphic games).
I know many of you will be surprised I expected to get a Gaming Machine for £300, well I didn't... I'm not playing Next-Gen games or anything I'd call pushing it. The games I play are Civilization V or Starport (A free, 2d downloadable arcade game) and it struggles with both... 5 years ago I bought a Laptop for £200 and it could handle games better than this machine can and came with non of the niggling issues that came with this thing.
In summary, what could I get if I returned this and threw £50 or so on top that could satisfy my needs. I don't want a mega computer in all areas or even one, just a decent laptop in all areas.
Kind regards, Iceman.
P.S Just checked and its running at 0.77GhZ. Is that low for a computer of this spec? I'm not to informed.
I just purchased the TOSHIBA Satellite C50D-A-133 15.6” Laptop from PC world for £300. I wanted a good all round Laptop... something that I could easily take to university, work on, play low end games on and just general use.
Now I've noticed some flaws in this Laptop. This picture quality is mediocre... I expected more from a £300 Laptop. But this isn't my main issue, it freezes (Mozilla crashes a lot), the mouse is on the left hand side (I'm right handed), the arrow keys are tiny and most of all... it struggles with playing games (I understand this is a graphics card issue, but expected it to be able to handle low-graphic games).
I know many of you will be surprised I expected to get a Gaming Machine for £300, well I didn't... I'm not playing Next-Gen games or anything I'd call pushing it. The games I play are Civilization V or Starport (A free, 2d downloadable arcade game) and it struggles with both... 5 years ago I bought a Laptop for £200 and it could handle games better than this machine can and came with non of the niggling issues that came with this thing.
In summary, what could I get if I returned this and threw £50 or so on top that could satisfy my needs. I don't want a mega computer in all areas or even one, just a decent laptop in all areas.
Kind regards, Iceman.
P.S Just checked and its running at 0.77GhZ. Is that low for a computer of this spec? I'm not to informed.
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