The inexpensive Toshiba Satellite Pro A210 laptop offers enough features and performance oomph for basic business tasks, but its AMD processor may disappoint hard-core multitaskers.Toshiba Satellite A2. User Reviewby Perry Longinotti. Once or twice per year, a friend or family member asks me to help them pick a notebook. Driver resource dvd and free data recovery download included. If only drivers are needed then go to Satellite Pro A210 Windows Most of the folks I know just need a basic computer, and the reason they enlist me is that I love finding good deals on notebooks. This week I needed to find a good little Grandma computer. Having scanned the used sections of my favorite websites for deals I quickly determined that most people were stuck in 2. So I hit the stores and found a pretty good assortment of dual core models in the $5. Acer, Dell, Compaq and Toshiba. The Toshiba Satellite A2. F (A2. 15 in the US) caught my eye: AMD Turion 6. X2 Mobile TL- 6. 0 (2. GHz, 1. MB Level 2 Cache) Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium. GB RAM – 2x. 51. 2MB DDR2 (6. MHz)2. 00. GB SATA HDD, 4. Built- in DVD Super- Multi Double Layer Drive functions: 1. US pricing is a little more expensive, but the A2. GB, 5. 40. 0rpm) and 2. GB of system memory. Out of Box Experience. Toshiba’s box is all business. No fancy artwork or decals here, just an understated brown box. Inside the A2. 10 is nestled in some cardboard inserts. DriverXP For Toshiba Equium A210 Windows 2K Version Update your Windows 2K drivers for your Toshiba Equium A210 device. Automatically update your Windows 2K's Equium A210 drivers to the latest Toshiba official release. In his never-ending quest to find the best affordable laptops, contributor Perry Longinotti takes a look at Toshiba's Satellite A210 (A215 in the US). This 15-inch notebook with an AMD dual core processor, 200GB hard drive and. Driver Toshiba Satellite A210 Notebook for Windows XP. Attention:Please read the description first before downloading file in order to get the best compatibility of your notebook drivers specification and hardware built inside. Toshiba Equium A210 restore disk ISO complete factory reset. This factory reset system includes a. Download toshiba satellite a210-sp6811 drivers windows xp pro sp6811 (driver-disk.com). Toshiba Forum - Satellite A210-17R (PSAFG) XP driver collection thread - Good morning, after realizing that my new NB doesn't come with any drivers AT ALL, I started searching the web for working Windows XP drivers. Accessories (accessory brochure, manual and power adapter) are packed in cardboard and there is a minimum of plastics. A thin cloth wrapper protects the A2. This is a refined and understated looking notebook. Physical Dimensions. Dimensions: (Wx. Dx. H) 1. 4. 2. 5 x 1. Weight: 2. 7. 2kg (6lbs)It feels both smaller and lighter than the specs would suggest. The 7. 5 Watt power supply adds 3. The 4. 00. 0m. Ah 6- cell battery fits snugly into the bottom of this particular A2. Like most recent Satellites, the chassis construction bears a family resemblance to other models in Toshiba’s line. The A2. 10 base feels solid in the hands and does a decent job resisting torsion flex. Also, while the stiff lid does a good job of protecting the LCD its bezel is a bit flimsy, particularly close to the web cam. When you first crack open the lid, a couple of pamphlets rest on the keyboard explaining how to register and also the recovery partition info. First boot starts Toshiba’s recovery console and an automated install. This thirty minute procedure should have been completed at the factory and puts a bit of a damper on the out of box experience. Specifications: Fast Enough for Grandma? The TL- 6. 0 in the A2. SOI fabrication process and consumes a frugal 3. Watts during peak speed. It wasn’t too long ago that specs like these were reserved for higher end notebooks – last year’s Acer Ferrari 1. For Grandma’s purposes this power is more than enough. At this price, many notebooks ship with Intel Celeron- M CPUs and the A2. Turion is better. In fact AMD’s Turion X2 TL- 6. Core 2 Duo processors, although it generally comes out short in terms of both computational power and energy conservation. There is an irony here when you consider how long AMD worked against Intel’s . Now, AMD is forced to compete against Intel by clocking its CPU’s higher at any given price point. A rather paltry (by today’s standards) 1 GB of DDR2 6. MHz in dual- channel mode (two 5. A2. 10. A single 1 GB ram module would be better, and would facilitate easy upgrade to 2 GB. Vista likes at least 2 GB of RAM.(view large image) The A2. GB Hard Drive provides a lot of storage but the drive’s 4. RPM rotational speed is antiquated and offers only marginal input/output performance. The average trasfer rate on the drive was 2. MB/second, we like to see about 4. MB/second. Boot time is about 1 minute 4. The A2. 10’s vacant second hard drive bay would be a great additional feature if the SATA connectors were not absent.(view large image) Optical storage comes in the form of a Super Multi DVD Burner. This is a dual layer DVD burner that accepts both - /+ media. It burns regular DVD- /+R discs at 8x, re- writable and dual layer discs at 4x, and DVD- RAM at 5x. This should cover most needs, but the drive is easily upgraded if necessary.(view large image) The AMD 6. M chipset incorporates an ATI RADEON X1. MB of shared memory (in this case 1. MB). No, you won’t be playing Crysis with this notebook – for curiosity’s sake I tested it and got 1. LOW settings and 8. For Facebook games and solitaires this setup will do nicely. Gaming aside, the X1. Full Direct. X 9. Enhanced MPEG- 2 hardware decode acceleration. MPEG- 4 decode support. Hardware acceleration for WMV9 playback. Integrated TV encoder from AMD Xilleon products with integrated ATI Avivo engine. Dual independent displays. Video acceleration is important especially with affordable HD cams hitting the market. This particular implementation of the X1. S- Video and VGA output. No DVI or HDMI is present. As I mentioned in the first impressions, the A2. LCD panel features Tru. Bright. This type screen coating is becoming a universal feature on consumer notebooks because it accentuates contrast. You really notice this when watching video although in bright areas with lots of sunlight the glare may be distracting. I am hoping the the extra contrast helps, more than the glare harms. Vertical viewing angle is poor, horizontal is acceptable. There is light bleed and the screen looks washed out during DVD playback (although it looks fine within Windows). A 1. 3 Megapixel web cam with microphone sits above the LCD. It worked fine in Skype, but suffered from poor low light performance (like most low end or integrated web cams). Wireless networking is handled the Atheros AR5. EX 8. 02. 1. 1a/g chip. With the proliferation of 2. GHz 8. 02. 1. 1b and g networks, it is nice that the A1. GHz 8. 02. 1. 1a standard. Antenna performance was excellent. A 5. 6k modem jack and a 1. Ethernet port (powered by a Realtek RTL8. E PCI- E chip) round out the networking features. Left side view. The vast majority of notebooks use the . This is then output via a codec chip. What this means is that rather than having a dedicated hardware based mixer and signal processor (like Creative’s X- Fi or Audigy), the work is handled by the . There is nothing wrong with this approach and the powerful CPUs of the last few years have allayed any concerns people might have had about the CPU being tied up with audio tasks. It supports 2. 4bit resolution at 1. Hz sampling rate in stereo. Decent (loud) stereo speakers (not Harmon Kardon) and a headphone port handle audio output. Front view. A four pin firewire port is included for connecting that DV cam you have kicking about. Toshiba has outfitted the A2. Express Card slot. Rounding out the input/output are four USB 2. Right side view. No restore disks for the Vista Home Premium Operating System and Utilities are included. These days, when I find disks in a box it is quite a surprise. A 6. GB restore partition resides on the HDD. Bundled software includes the usual assortment and a minimal amount of uninstalling will get the notebook to an optimized state. Toshiba’s utility suite is generally worth keeping – some tools like the Zoom hotkey will be particularly beneficial to this notebook’s intended recipient. Toshiba Config. Free. Adobe Acrobat Reader. TOSHIBA Disc Creator. TOSHIBA DVD PLAYERUlead DVD Movie. Factory. Norton Internet Security 2. Microsoft Office 2. Microsoft SQL Server 2. Someone at Toshiba has a sick sense of humor installing this on a 4. HDD)Performance. Vista really chokes the A2. Perhaps because it meets all of Vista’s requirements, the A2. That is a little much for 1. GB of RAM to handle and the constant disk access really draws attention to the A2. HDD. Using a program like v. Lite should bring performance to XP levels. I was expecting the A2. Intel’s current offerings, and that is pretty much what happened. Super. Pi calculated to two million places in 1 minute 4. That is about 4. 0% slower than the Intel T5. GHz. If you can find an Intel based notebook with a Core 2 Duo CPU within $5. A2. 10 then you should think long and hard before buying. Another synthetic benchmark we use is PCMark 0. It tests overall performance by stressing most of a computer’s subsystems. In this test the A2. In detail, the PCMark 0. PCMark. 05. HDD — XP Startup 4. MB/s Physics and 3. D 7. 6. 8. 9 FPS Transparent Windows 2. Windows/s 3. D — Pixel Shader 1. FPS Web Page Rendering 1. Pages/s File Decryption 3. MB/s Graphics Memory — 6. Lines 1. 73. 7 FPS HDD — General Usage 2. MB/s Multithreaded Test 1 / Audio Compression 1. KB/s Multithreaded Test 1 / Video Encoding 2. KB/s Multithreaded Test 2 / Text Edit 9. Pages/s Multithreaded Test 2 / Image Decompression 2. MPixels/s Multithreaded Test 3 / File Compression 3. MB/s Multithreaded Test 3 / File Encryption 1. MB/s Multithreaded Test 3 / HDD — Virus Scan 1. MB/s Multithreaded Test 3 / Memory Latency — Random 1. MB 8. 3. 6 MAccesses/s Ergonomics. I found the A2. 10’s bilingual keyboard spongy. Also, this keyboard has the dreaded non- standard Enter key that takes some getting used to. If you are picky about keyboards you should try the A2. The touchpad on the other hand was perfect right out of the box. No fancy features here, just a simple human interface device. Along the top of the keyboard are CD/DVD control buttons: Play/Pause, Stop, Previous Track/Next track. I don’t know how much these will be used. I expect this notebook will live most of its life tethered to a power cord, but battery life is still important. In a pure torture test, Battery Eater Pro gobbled up every last trace of power in the A2. Surfing and downloading patches I got a respectable 2: 2. A2. 10. Heat was not an issue under normal use. When powered by battery the A2. Conclusion. In this price bracket the big players this year seem to be the Toshiba Satellite A2. A2. 00, Dell Vostro 1. Acer Aspire 4. 7xx and 5. Gemstone series. Where I see the Toshiba having an edge over the Vostro 1. Things like keyboard and design are very personal and hard to convey in a small web photograph. Aesthetically the Toshiba is better looking in my opinion. The Vostro can be bought with Windows XP – a vastly superior Operating System for PCs with modest specification like these. The Dell has a more orthodox keyboard layout – for a lot of people this alone could be the clincher. Toshiba Satellite A2. Notebook Drivers Download for Windows 1. Vista & XPSupport 3. Windows: 1. 0, 8, 7, Server 2. Vista, Server 2. 00. 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