Comments on: Toshiba Satellite T135-S1330 TruBrite 13.3-Inch Ultrathin Laptop (Black)

By: SamTheTechy

SamTheTechy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:44:58 +0000

Review by SamTheTechy for Toshiba Satellite T135-S1330 TruBrite 13.3-Inch Ultrathin Laptop (Black) Rating: I had a HP laptop that I bought 5 years ago (still working but very slow and battery almost dead) and this toshiba replaces it. That old HP pavilion's build quality is very good and it lasted me all these years without any issues. I'm not sure I can say the same thing with this Toshiba. This is made cheap to make it light and materials were of lower quality. Keyboard has smooth keys and buttons are very thin. Screen looks very good at full brightness and we can get only 4 hrs of battery life with this setting. If you make the screen dim, you can get up to 7 hrs of battery life but working at this level is almost impossible. So, don't go by the "9HR" battery marketing gimmic. It's true only in ideal conditions.

Processor speed is good (infact it is Pentium DUAL-CORE). Amazon didn't specify it in their description. I comfortably ran HD youtube, 1 virtual machine and office installation all at once without any issues. if you need ultra portability, go for this. If you need muscle and longer life, look elsewhere.

Hope this helps.

-Sam.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:20:05 +0000

Review by Lorraine for Toshiba Satellite T135-S1330 TruBrite 13.3-Inch Ultrathin Laptop (Black) Rating: I wanted a light laptop that was faster and provided more options than a netbook. I've had this laptop for over two weeks now and already took it on a trip with me. I have read all the reviews of this laptop on Amazon and other sites as well as reviews of similar Toshiba Satellite laptops. I was prepared for some of the problems I have read about but experienced none. The low volume problem that many mentioned is easily fixed by going into the sound settings and making adjustments there. I had no problem using the keyboard or the mousepad. I don't know why some others had complaints. The "fingerprint magnet" issue that is widely mentioned was not as bad as I had expected. So I am satisfied with my new laptop and find that it meets my needs.

By: N. Salisbury

N. Salisbury — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:55:02 +0000

Review by N. Salisbury for Toshiba Satellite T135-S1330 TruBrite 13.3-Inch Ultrathin Laptop (Black) Rating: As a programmer/webmaster, I am usually upgrading/fixing my old computers for experience. However, after a CCFL (backlight) failure I decided it was finally time to upgrade past my 2gb RAM and eternally failing HP Pavilion; within a week, I had decided from a concatenation of research that the panoply of options available for the new model of the Satellite were definitely worth the amazing price.

At first I may have been wary of the smaller screen size, but after about a day of using it everything suddenly became copasetic. If you are really worried about the size, just get a second monitor for home-use. Also, the dual core on this tiny beast is FAST. And using the Eco mode, I have been able to effectively carry around my laptop for about 48 hours without the battery even coming close to running out, even while using it for about 9 of those hours!

Now it's definitely true that the trackpad has some problems; the simple solution: get an external mouse. All around I am very impressed with the device. Now I just need to find a reasonable way to fill 500gb of hard drive space.

By: P. Altaffer

P. Altaffer — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:25:43 +0000

Review by P. Altaffer for Toshiba Satellite T135-S1330 TruBrite 13.3-Inch Ultrathin Laptop (Black) Rating: I just received this laptop a week ago from Amazon. I have a Toshiba Satellite P205 I got in late 2007. It still is going strong BUT it is a beast..17" and heavy. It was fine at first when my time was spent at my home office, but a bear to travel with.

I happened upon this one at a local office supply store and fell for it right away and after much research found that Amazon had the best build out for the best price! EVen better than Toshiba!

My thoughts at 1st were to keep my "beast" going as my home computer and just take this baby on the road..but I think that will be too crazy to keep everything sync'd up over sharing the wireless network.

I was able to quickly set this baby up! I figured out how to do the easy transfer over my wireless network and am almost fully set up on one computer. This computer is very fast and though I was used to a 17" monitor, I have not really felt like I am missing that extra screen. The keyboard is cramped in comparison but I am getting used to it. I do find myself making more typing mistakes. I do find that the bar at the bottom does take a bit more effort to push down but I learned a trick the other day I never learned before. I never realized you could just tap on the mouse pad to go where you wanted to go! I also figured I would be using a mouse anyway. SO I got a logitech lap pad that has a pull out mouse pad that has made this easier to use witha mouse while in my lap!

I did the recommendations for changing the sound options so I didn't have any initial issues with low sound as described in other reviews of similar models. I am downloading the driver update right now as and added measure

I do not miss the optical drive at this point. I almost considered the U models because it had the built in optical drive but that would have been a HUGE trade off in battery life! SO far I have gotten up to 6 hours of battery on this. I could have gone longer but I had to replug in when I was in the middle of doing something that would take longer than what was left. I am lucky to get just over 2 hours of life on "the beast". I bought the Samsung optical drive recommended here when I bought the laptop and that worked great to load software into this. Is small and light enought to go with me on longer trips just in case. I hardly used the drive so I know I made theright choice to choose battery life over built in drive.

I was able to stash this baby in my purse yesterday, go to a client and sit in a marathon meeting for 6 hours without having it plugged in! Huge plus!

I am still getting used to Windows 7 quirks..but so far I am happy with this one. Always liked the toshibas I have owned or worked on in the past. Expecting to LOVE travelling with this one this year and putting the beast to rest! Great price and great little machine so far!

By: Geoffrey T. Tudor

Geoffrey T. Tudor — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:43:33 +0000

Review by Geoffrey T. Tudor for Toshiba Satellite T135-S1330 TruBrite 13.3-Inch Ultrathin Laptop (Black) Rating: Very fast and responsive laptop with expansive battery life. The 1366x768 screen is sharp and very bright too, with much crisper whites than the other 3 LCDs on my desktop. Solid build quality on this and whisper quiet, compared to my Acer Aspire 4530 14inch that this replaced. Total usable capacity on drive shows at 455GB out of the box. I'm not sure whether it's the 4100 processor or Windows 7, but this machine screams compared to my prior Vista laptop with an Athlon X2 dual-core QL-60. Performance with Microsoft Office Beta 10 is also exceptional, with Microsoft Excel opening in milliseconds compared to seconds on the Acer. I'm a suit spending lots of time on planes, and not a gamer--so I can't comment on how it performs in 3D graphics but that's not my use case anymore (unfortunately). They keyboard is a bit cramped--but you quickly get used to it after a few days. And the trade-off for thin and light far outweighs having a much larger keyboard.

The biggest bonus is that my machine did not come with the usual bloatware that plagues most other new laptops, so the out-of-box experience was smooth and painless. For the price, I don't think you can find a better deal: 4GB RAM, Win 7 64 bit, 6+ hour battery life and a half-terabyte hard drive for well under a grand. There may be smaller and faster laptops out there, but not for the money.