Toshiba Satellite L640 - cheap laptop i3 core

In 2010, Toshiba continued to grow and innovated with the L6xx series, aimed at the average consumer at a popular price but still equipped with a powerful Intel Core i3 processor, Toshiba Satellite L640 is the latest model. Toshiba's many changes are quite impressive compared to its predecessors.

Toshiba Satellite L640-1067U is tested with configuration including 2.4 GHz Intel Core i3-370M processor, 2GB DDR3 RAM memory, 320GB hard drive, integrated Intel HD Graphics chip.

1. Designs - Design

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Unlike the L5xx seniors , the L640 has a slimmer design, the slimmer edge of the device, which gives life, breath and impression to the L series .

The L640 is also more prominent with a polished, professional black color, which is quite impressive in this case, which is the submerged pattern, giving users a softer feel (this sink is quite similar to the pattern on the case). Portege T230). Different from the previous generation, this design covers all over the entire case, uniform, spotless.

The case is painted black and scratch-resistant, but easy to attach to fingerprints but also very easy to clean. Machine for feeling thick when holding. The L640 weighs 2.13 kg, roughly the average when compared to other 14-inch screen laptops.

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The L640 's touchpad supports multi-touch, but using two fingers to zoom in or out the image or the web is not really smooth. However, when using a normal one-finger operation, this touchpad still supports it well. Two mouse buttons have a slightly large settlement, which also makes users take the first time to get used to.

2. Screen - Speaker

Toshiba Satellite L640-1067U owns a 14-inch mirror screen, 1366 x 768 resolution, utilizing HD CSV LED technology for clear, clear images, while enjoying HD movies.

Highlights in the design of the screen design in the screen leg joints are very solid, users can not use one hand to open the machine. This is very useful when leaving a laptop in a backpack, bag, screen will be very stable without collisions.

Satellite L640-1067U is equipped with two-speaker system above the keyboard. The loudspeaker does not have the phenomenon of being loud when opening the maximum volume but the sound of L640-1067U  Not really impressive, if you install the audio driver for the machine (using windows 7), the sound will be improved better.

3. Features and connection ports

Toshiba Satellite L640-1067U does not have an attached operating system, so it does not have Toshiba utilities installed, you can go to Toshiba homepage to download, install and use as: Toshiba Bulletin board , Assist utility , eco utility , SmartFace ™ Technology . Although not equipped with 3D HDD Protect , users can still be assured of the stability and reliability of the L640 hard drive with shockproof rubber cover.

Connection ports:

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Lan, eSata / USB turbo, USB, microphone jack, phone on the left flank

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Power jack, VGA, USB and DVD RW optical drive on the right flank

4. Temperature - performance.

* Temperature

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Like most laptops today Satellite L640-1067U equipped with heat sinks on the left side of the machine. When working normally like surfing the web and listening to music, the device produces a moderate amount of heat. The face is slightly warmed up while the underside gets hotter, making it a little difficult to use the machine on the lap to work.

* Performance

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Machine reached 1,504 points with 3DMark06.

When using the 3DMark06 grading program to test graphics power, Satellite L640-1067U reached 1,504 points. This score is much higher than non-graphics card laptops with an average of about 1,000 points.

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Overall scoring machine with PCMark Vantage program.

If using PCMark Vantage program (version used for 32 bits operating system) to evaluate the overall machine, the machine achieved 5,481 points.

Testing the reading speed of a 320GB hard drive has an average reading speed of 67.6 MB / sec, better than the average of 60 MB / sec in most current mid-range laptop hard drives.

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Test results of the hard drive with the program HD Tune Pro 4.6.

5. Battery life.

Satellite L640-1067U uses 44Wh 6 cell battery. Test the device to run a 720p HD movie and play it back continuously until it is off, still turn on the Wi-Fi connection, use a headset instead of the speaker and set it to 70% (the sound of Windows Media Player program to 100%), 50% brightness for the device to run until it turns itself off (with 5% battery level), this time reaches 2 hours 11 minutes. This result is equivalent to other models priced below 15 million today.

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Satellite L640 - 1067U (PSK0JL-00F001)
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Manufacturer: Toshiba
Price: VND 13,290,000

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