Best Entry Level Laptop

A notebook computer (also known as a laptop) is a device that has the same components as a desktop computer and also does the same tasks…only that it is much smaller, thinner so it’s portable. All of the components of a PC (monitor, keyboard, mouse, central unit, speakers) are external but in the case of a laptop all of these components are integrated into one single unit. At the beginning the notebooks were used mostly by business men, for the times when they were traveling from one place to another. So this way they were able to still do some of their work while traveling, or to send mails while they were in their way to the meeting or to write documents from the hotel room and so on. But today any kind of people are buying a laptop, and they are using it for so many activities such as: watching a movie when traveling with the plane or listening to some music at a picnic or communicate with friends and write emails while being at the beach and so on. So a notebook offers many advantages and it will worth to spend the extra money to buy a laptop instead of a classic desktop computer.




There are many producers of laptops, and some of the best names in the world are: HP, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, Apple, Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, MSI, Alienware and Gateway.

But for today we’ll focus on just one of these companies  – Toshiba. It is a Japanese multinational corporation that produces many kinds of electronic devices and also computers and laptops. It is actually the fight largest producer of personal computers in the world, so you can be sure that its products are good. Toshiba offers 5 families of notebooks and they are: Satellite, Tecra, Satellite Pro, Qosmio and Portege.

And for this article we’ll make a review of one of the best entry level laptops made by this company, and we’ll take the Toshiba L 450 series. The notebooks from this series are economical, affordable and also reliable and with a nice design. They all have a classic design and a 15.6 inch widescreen display, which offers a good video quality. It also has a 16:9 aspect ratio, so you can watch movies in High Definition. It also has Wi-fi technology so that you can connect to the internet anytime you get the chance, and also an integrated webcam to allow you to keep in touch with family and friends.

The performances offered are quite good and you will easily be able to handle any task. It features all the ports you need and here they are: on the front side you can find a memory card reader slot, a microphone jack, headphones jack, the volume control button and also the system indicator lights. On its right side there are 2 USB ports, the optical drive, the AC adapter jack and also the security lock slot. On the left side there is the cooling vent, the RGB port, another USB port and a network port. And on the rear side there is no port at all.

You can find 2 laptop models in the L 450 series, and these are: the L 455 – S 5000 that costs 494 dollars and the L 455 – S 5008 that costs 549 dollars. Let’s look closely at the specifications for the first model:

-         Processor – Intel ® Celeron ® Processor 900
-         operating system – Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) (this may depend on the store where you buy the laptop from)
-         memory – 3 GB DDR 3 800 MHz
-         Graphics engine – Intel ® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 M
-         Hard drive – 250 GB HDD ( 5400 rpm)
-         Optical drive – DVD-Super Multi drive (+/-R double layer)
-         Other features –   memory card reader, integrated webcam with Face recognition, Toshiba Bulletin Board, Toshiba Reel Time.

The second model is pretty similar to the first one, and the difference is at the processor and at the RAM memory. In case you too own one of these models, or any other laptop that you consider the best entry level laptop, we invite you to tell us all about it. Have a nice day!