TOSHIBA TECRA 9100 LAPTOP SERVICE MANUAL.
The Tecra is attractive, with its subdued dual-color elegance. It's fairly thin, at 1.5 inches, and the lightest of the Windows-based mainstream laptops, at 5.3 pounds without the adapter, which adds almost another pound.
Space is well utilized, with the full-size keyboard occupying most of the laptop's width. We also like the four buttons that complement the pointing stick, as they feel more comfortable than the grainy plastic found with the pointing-device buttons on other notebooks. Toshiba includes a neat software package, hwsetup, on all of its current notebooks. The software can edit the bios from Windows (on other brands, you have to go into the bios to edit its settings, usually by hitting f2 or Delete when you boot the pc).
Another smart feature is the wireless switch located on the front of the system, which allows you to toggle quickly between wireless connectivity and the built-in Ethernet port. An easily accessible tv-out port is sure to be a presentation pleaser, and the integrated sd card slot is something we expect to see more. But we would have liked a more powerful graphics subsystem in place of the s3 Super Savage mx/ix.
Surprisingly, the Toshiba didn't score as well as we expected, given its 1.7-ghz p4-M processor, 5,400-rpm drive, and 256mb of ddr sdram. Although it had the highest score on Content Creation Business Winstone 2002, it lagged behind the Dell Latitude c610 (with a 1.2-ghz piii-M) on all our other tests. The c610's battery life was also superior—more than twice as long as the Tecra's 2 hours 5 minutes.
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The Tecra is attractive, with its subdued dual-color elegance. It's fairly thin, at 1.5 inches, and the lightest of the Windows-based mainstream laptops, at 5.3 pounds without the adapter, which adds almost another pound.
Space is well utilized, with the full-size keyboard occupying most of the laptop's width. We also like the four buttons that complement the pointing stick, as they feel more comfortable than the grainy plastic found with the pointing-device buttons on other notebooks. Toshiba includes a neat software package, hwsetup, on all of its current notebooks. The software can edit the bios from Windows (on other brands, you have to go into the bios to edit its settings, usually by hitting f2 or Delete when you boot the pc).
Another smart feature is the wireless switch located on the front of the system, which allows you to toggle quickly between wireless connectivity and the built-in Ethernet port. An easily accessible tv-out port is sure to be a presentation pleaser, and the integrated sd card slot is something we expect to see more. But we would have liked a more powerful graphics subsystem in place of the s3 Super Savage mx/ix.
Surprisingly, the Toshiba didn't score as well as we expected, given its 1.7-ghz p4-M processor, 5,400-rpm drive, and 256mb of ddr sdram. Although it had the highest score on Content Creation Business Winstone 2002, it lagged behind the Dell Latitude c610 (with a 1.2-ghz piii-M) on all our other tests. The c610's battery life was also superior—more than twice as long as the Tecra's 2 hours 5 minutes.
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