Toshiba NB550D review

This seems like the prefect netbook. All I have to do is wait for my AA1 to die.

By JamesD29 on 25 Mar 2011

and work out how to get it without paying the windows tax.

By JamesD29 on 25 Mar 2011

I love the sound of the netbook, however i'm guessing the 2 out of 6 stars for performance that it gets is comparing it to full power laptops.
Are there any plans to make a completely separate netbooks category, or is the reasoning behind not doing that the popular theory that netbooks are a dying breed?

By khellan on 27 Mar 2011

Toshiba NB550D

This is a superb multimedia netbook ideal
for traveling with the
digital camera and Camcorder. Toshiba beat
Asus to the Draw, their
equivalent using the same
processor and HD graffics
card is only coming out in USA in April.
This is a superb machine!

Snobbie45

By Snobbie45 on 29 Mar 2011

Toshiba reliably rip you off!

£80 to £120 more for a Netbook with a much slower CPU and better graphics is a joke unless you need it for media; the mentioning gaming support is pointless for such a slow CPU.

I'd only consider this Netbook if:
* the CPU had a much higher maximum clock speed e.g say 1.5GHz.
* demand scaled variable CPU speed for the same battery life.
* was much cheaper, say max. £250, inc. VAT!

As is, if I was buying a new netbook I'd still opt for a £180 to £220 (VAT inc) Atom one, for the faster CPU, given £300 is a rip-off, but hardly surprising given it is Toshiba!

For just media playing, my Advent Vega is far more portable than any netbook, and can drive HDMI TVs (unlike the crapple iPad2), and is still cheaper at £250, or less for business.

I've travelled with my devices, so this is not just hot air.

By Schematrix on 31 Mar 2011

Too late for netbooks and not ready for tablets...

AMD missed the train. Everyone bought a netbook with Atom previous years, Intel sold Atom without any competitor to every netbook. Now Apple set the trend favoring Tablet, and I see no hope for AMD. They may prepare a Nvidia Tegra competitor 2 years later...

By HopeLESS on 1 Apr 2011

maybe a little too pessimistic...

Yes ideally both consumers and amd would have liked it out a lot sooner but you're either missing the point or engaging in silly hyperbole.
It's a scalable architecture aimed at low power all round performance. In fact equally clocked it is a more powerful cpu than the atom and the better alternative for 'portable productivity' to use a silly buzzword. There is plenty of potential in the fusion series, expect to see it in plenty of laptops. I'm interested.

By Hmmmm on 5 Apr 2011

Good little netbook

I have just got one of these, and once you take off all the crapware it runs great. Gonna upgrade the RAM now though.

By Jon2010 on 14 Apr 2011