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The Satellite T135 Series are affordable, ultrathin laptops built for everyday life on the go. Toshiba’s thinnest and lightest Satellite models feature a power-efficient processor, making them ideal for students or fast-moving pros who demand a travel-friendly laptop with long battery life. Though sleek and light, the T135 Series deliver the performance you’d expect from a standard laptop—horsepower to handle the day’s tasks or evening’s entertainment, plus a great communications package to keep you effective, online and in touch. They also offer uncommon convenience, thanks to a suite of Toshiba “Smart” features, plus a comfort-driven, eco-focused design that includes a stunning Fusion Finish in Nova Red, White or Black.
Product Details
1.3GHz Intel Pentium Ultra Low Voltage SU4100 Processor
4GB Memory
320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
13.3" LED-Backlit Display
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, *9 Hours 22 Minutes of Battery Life
Customer Reviews
Sound is not bad, it's great once you know how to configure it
Review Date: November 6, 2009
Reviewer: JMesa,
I have bought this laptp and it is really great. Super fast, really lightweight and with an impressive look.
About the sound: you can increase sound DRAMATICALLY if you follow this steps:
Go to Control Panel
Select SMART AUDIO
On the lower part, select SMART EQ/3D SETTINGS
Select CUSTOM
Pull the buttons up (i have them still at number 7, quite enough as you will see)
Enjoy AWESOME volume!!!
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November 21 Review Actualization
Well, it has been almost a month since I bought my T135 and I can say I love this little Titan.
Pros:
-LIGHTWEIGHT
-Powerful. With Windows 7 64 edition, I can get as much performance as a my other Core 2 Duo Toshiba Sattellite A135 laptop.
- I can get 9 hours plus of battery life (Eco Mode). As per the other person stating that he can get only 4 hours of battery life, that is in full power mode. Try to get 4 hours of battery life at full power from any other machine and you will fail miserably
- Great Graphics
- Great sound if you do as I stated above:
- Wifi 802.11N!!! I mean, I an get my 802.11N signal from some 200 meters in my garden!!!
- Gorgeous looks
-FAST, FAST, FAST
I have edited video and music (iTunes and a couple of DVD rippers) and it does them in a couple of minutes
- IT'S a TOSHIBA!!!!
- Video conferencing (Skype and Messenger) it's really good, although the camera it's only 1.3 megapixels
- After 10 hours of use, at full power, it barely gets warm. You can put it on your bag right away
- Ultra Low Voltage means Ultra Low Energy Consumption. I mean guys, we have to be environmentally conscious. This babe just uses 19V of energy at full power, down to 8-10 Volts at Eco Mode.
NEUTRAL
- I hate on every laptop (no matter what brand) the touch pads. I always use an external mouse.
CONS
- You can do a fingerprint exam on the laptop. I do not know why it gets so finger dirty (and believe me, I wash my hands very often). I bought a GelySkin for the exterior and it's a great add-on
Hope this review is usefull
Great Form Factor for a Netbook +
Review Date: December 12, 2009
Reviewer: V. V. Burns, So Cal, USA
The T135-S1310 has been great and really fits what I needed. I wanted more than a crappy netbook but also did not want a super bleeding edge $2K notebook. Full size keyboard was really a plus and I am sure glad a spent a little more for something completely useful.
The S1310 uses the new ultra low power dual-core Pentium processor and scores 932 on Passmark. The laptop runs faster than my two year old Core Duo.
The size of the new screens is great and 13" is a true happy medium. These also make the overall machine size shallow so you have room on an airplane.
The finish is really cool looking but fingerprints abound on the lid, inside and even the keyboard - whatever!
Keyboard works pretty well if you are a soft touch typist and the keyboard layout is just fine with lots of reused keys to get all the functions. In one review there was no 'hardware' volume control (there is FN+3 / FN+4)
Screen is very glossy like many are today. I have not owned a glossy screen laptop before and I find it somewhat irritating when sitting with a window at my back - its tolerable but I choose where I sit.
Preloaded software was minimal and getting the laptop stripped of all the extra junk was a small task. Once complete a set of back-up disks were made per the instructions.
I rarely if ever use a CD/DVD so this suite me well - not having to suffer the weight penalty. I purchased a 'LG GP08 Lite' which self-installed with Win 7 - I never used the software included and it was up and operating in minutes to burn back-up / restore media. [I did not purchase the Toshiba external device due to bad reviews]
Making of back-up media was flawless using the Toshiba utilities.
Bluetooth seems to work great - you will want a portable mouse and my Logitech was connected easily to the T135-S1310.
Wireless N is much appreciated for both range and speed.
The touchpad like expressed in other reviews is not the best effort and way worse than my 5 year old laptop this replaced. My first T135-S1310 I returned for several reasons and the touchpad had serious latency [but not one of the reasons it was returned.] The replacement on which I am drafting this does not appear to suffer the same problem. The two were probably made on the same day in the factory and have the same drivers but even in eco mode it is responsive. The buttons are very hard to press and a tap on the touchpad is better than trying to use the mechanical switch.
Audio sucked at first - I did raise the graphic equalizer in "Smart Audio" / Smart EQ but this is just a work around for a bad driver that hopefully will be updated. [UPDATE 12/13/2009 - New Conexent Audio Driver Released, upgrade to rev. 4.98.16.61 and the sound seems fine to me. I have been watching a lot of video lately with the speakers and find it fine]
My first T135-S1310 had a couple of operational issues. The key one was flakey Wi-Fi. It would not stay connected to my D-Link 615 [Wireless N] while every other device in my house would....strange. Anyway this replacement is working fine.
Toshiba Customer Service - For addressing the above issues, troubleshooting and resolution of obtaining a new machine locally at the vendor was just fine: they did not call me back as promised, but when I called they had all the 2nd or 3rd tier support notes and approval to return the unit for replacement: hassle free.
Sleep Mode - The machine comes to life very fast and gets re-connected to the network before you can log yourself into Windows. Contrary to other reports posted here mine recovers and connects to the WLAN in seconds.
Form-factor is really great. The sloped or wedge design and lip from the battery give you something to safely rip and hand on to this glossy carbon fiber looking masterpiece: if you had wet or oily hands it is likely to slip out if you are not careful. Also it makes it very simple to pull out from your briefcase / laptop bag as you have something to really hang on to. I got a great little Sumdex bag for $17 which fits it great and has just enough room for a file folder or two, some paper and the charger + travel mouse.
Also on form factor, these laptops are just slightly larger than a sheet of (US) paper. What does this mean? It is essentially the same size as file folder which means you can fit a couple file folders, tablet of paper etc. in your tiny laptop bag and maybe only carry one thing with you.
Other Ports - Not yet tested / used except the USB port has worked great as does the MiniSD memory card reader.
So far I score this machine quite high. I love the form-factor, performance is just fine, Wireless N is great to have, screen is great, battery life is excellent. My only complaints which are minor are that its hard to keep clean (looking) due to fingerprints, the audio is marginal at best [better after new driver release from Toshiba], touchpad and related buttons should be better in 2009.
I do recommend this type of machine to those looking to not waste $3-475 for a pure netbook with a Atom processor (Passmark +- 300) and step up to a Netbook+ for a small amount more and get real performance AND great battery life. Spend the extra to get a dual core processor too and avoid the similar computers with the other processors like the SU2700 etc.
Great machine - lousy service and dead wireless OOTB
Review Date: December 4, 2009
Reviewer: Mitch Seville, Michigan, USA
The laptop is awesome with few drawbacks not already noted (glassy surface = fingerprints all over). The battery life is great, screen fantastic, keyboard a little slick but adaptable. My big issue is with Toshiba support. It took me nearly a month to convince them that the machine had a defective wireless card and/or antenna out of the box. I should note that I did all of the troubleshooting for them and if I didn't know my way around the technology wonder if I would still be using a machine that only connected when 2 feet from an access point.
Eventually I was bumped up to "Level III" tech support after about three weeks, but they never called me back. I then had to go back to square one and basically demand that they clear the way for me to ship it to the depot for repairs. The machine went out the next day using their shipping partner (UPS) on 11/19 and I am still waiting for its return. I have twice called Toshiba support, had to go through a whole litany of questions before they transfer me to the Repair Depot, and then I get to wait on hold for 25 - 35 minutes before I give in, leave my call back number, and of course NEVER GET A CALL BACK.
UPDATE: I finally got through to talk with a depot technician, and was told that they didn't have either the replacement wireless card or antenna in stock and that it could be another 10 days before they can make the repairs. Now I have been on hold with their customer support for over 30 minutes, as I try to get my warranty extended since the machine has basically been useless for the first 1 1/2 months. This is my first Toshiba, and I can only compare to IBM/Lenovo and Dell support, which run circles around what I am experiencing now with Toshiba.
Bottom line = great machine if it works, but get ready for abysmal service if things go wrong
Great little machine
Review Date: January 13, 2010
Reviewer: Marc,
Before I write this review I do have to comment about the "low audio" problems people been having. You don't need to go to the Smart Audio application you can do it within your sound preferences. Right click your sound icon in the taskbar and choose Playback Devices, click on Speakers within the Playback tab then click Properties near the bottom of the window. Choose the Enhancements tab then choose Loudness Equalization. Or you can download the new massive 157mb driver from Toshiba and that should do the trick too.
My reason for buying this computer is to have something bigger than a netbook for some extra horsepower and screen but something small enough that I can take anywhere with ease. I'm hoping to keep this short enough but there is a lot to cover and I won't be writing about every feature...
Battery
The battery life on this machine is fantastic. I've got a little over 7 hours on Eco mode while doing some heavy internet surfing, some downloading and machine configuration and about 10 you tube vids. I've also tested watching video only in Eco mode with wifi off and I achieved 6.5 hours of video playback!!! By far i'm happy with this little machines performance.
Touchpad
I'm not sure what there is to say about this but i've had NO problems whatsoever on it. It seems accurate enough for me that i'm not yearning for a mouse. The rocker style buttons underneath the touchpad did take me a short amount of time to get used to as you need to click more than half way from the center to register a click. But that is a non issue for me as you too will get used to it.
Webcam
I'm super happy with it. My skype calls were super clear on the other end. My skype buddy mentioned that it was like looking through glass like i was in the room. Perfect!!
Wireless
Again i'm super happy about the range and quality of my wireless N network. There is no where on my property that I can't go that I can't enjoy the bliss of the internet. This little badboy even picked up other signals as well with ease which is perfect for when you're on a trip and you need to "borrow" signals from hotels or other unsecured hotspots to access info.
Graphics
It's integrated...enough said. Plays everything I throw at it including an HD movie that I ripped. I couldn't comment about online HD playback though. Obviously it isn't a gaming machine so people think before you judge this machine cause it can't play Crysis at full settings...or even medium...or maybe not at all.
Keyboard
Its a keyboard. It works. It has all the keys you need. The keys have a glossy finish on them but it's a non issue for me. I can type fairly fast and I was flying out of the gate. With anything there is a bit of a learning curve so give it a chance before you judge it.
I could go on and on about all the features on this machine (good and bad) but really i'm not that interested in writing a novel, lol. And i'm sure I missed a bunch of features that do deserve to be written about but the plain simple truth is that they all work well.
Are there things I don't like about it?? As with anything people won't be totally satisfied and want to have something to gripe about. Sure it leaves fingerprints (as with most things), sure it has a glossy screen which is hard to see in the daytime (find some shade), and the viewing angle is so-so (but really why would you be using the computer at an angle anyhow???), sure it won't make you dinner and clean up after you (but as soon as that model comes out, i'll be first in line!!)
So the jist of this review is - everything works well, it's cheap, go buy it.
WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE - BUY AT OWN RISK
Review Date: December 28, 2009
Reviewer: Jiten Patel,
I purchased this computer about a month ago. Note that if you happen to have any problems with the computer, you will receive NO help from Toshiba. One of the things I always do with my computers is create recovery media. The computer comes loaded with Toshiba software that allows you to create recovery media; however, for whatever reason, the program that was installed on this computer runs into an error and aborts after almost almost finishing the first recovery disk. As a result, I checked the box to see if the computer came with any recovery media. This computer comes loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit but the recovery media they sent me in the box was Windows 7 Professional 32 bit. Normally I would not have cared but since I couldnt create the recovery media through the computer, I decided to call Toshiba to get the correct disks mailed to me. WHAT A MISTAKE. Their customer service is SLOW and inept. First I spoke with a representative who listened to the problem and then told me I must register my computer by calling a different number. So I did that. Then I called customer service back, who then told me I would have to pay shipping and handling for the disks to be mailed to me. I found this unacceptable, so then they transferred me (after a long wait of course) to their customer relations department. There I spoke with their "manager," Alyca, who told me after putting me on hold, again, that since I purchased the computer through Amazon and not Toshiba, they cannot send me the proper recovery media. The only way they would send me the proper media would be if I paid them a $25 shipping and handling fee. Her claim was that Amazon sent me the incorrect computer. This obviously does not make sense since the computer model number is correct and the computer itself is preloaded with the CORRECT operating system (Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit), its just that the recovery media included in the box is not. Someone please explain to me Toshiba's lack of any logical thought. Obviously, the box had the correct computer but had the incorrect recovery media included. Rather than correcting their mistake, they tried to pawn it off. After reading some of the other reviews, I guess their lack of customer service is not anything new. The computer works, but be aware that you are taking a chance, because if anything is not how it should be, Toshiba will not help you. BUY THE COMPUTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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Sound is not bad, it's great once you know how to configure it
