Toshiba Mini Laptop

Toshiba Mini NB255-N245 10.1-Inch Black Onyx Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life)

Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with our affordable, super-compact NB255 netbook – a stylish companion PC offering amazing freedom and smart, comfort-driven features for light, on-the-go computing. Thanks to excellent high-speed connectivity, the renowned Intel Atom processor, and up to an eight-hour battery life rating, this innovative best-in-class netbook lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it comes with a 10.1-Inch diagonal LED display, and provides smart features and design to enhance your mobile life – like a full-size keyboard and touchpad. Brilliantly styled in Celestial Black, it picks up where smart phones leave off, and makes many of today’s netbooks run a distant second.Toshiba Mini NB255: Stylish, Highly Portable Netbook Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with the affordable, super-compact Toshiba Mini NB255-N245, which weighs less than 3 pounds, is small enough to throw in a purse or bag, and offers a brightly colorful 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen. It features a full-size keyboard for comfortable typing and a larger touchpad with Multi-Touch Control, which enables you to navigate documents, web pages and images more easily.

With up to 8.3 hours of battery life, the Toshiba Mini NB255 offers a full day of computing without a recharge (see larger image).

Brilliantly styled in Celestial Black (see larger image).

The NB255 features a comfortable full-size keyboard, plus a full-size touchpad with multi-touch capabilities (see larger image). Combining the power of the latest Intel Atom N455 processor and NM10 Express chipset with a six-cell battery for up to 8.3 hours of

• 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 processor
• 1 GB DDR2 RAM
• 160 GB SATA hard drive
• 10.1-inch LED backlit widescreen display; Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 video processor
• Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, 8.3 hours of battery life

Rating: (out of 18 reviews)

List Price: $ 299.99
Price: $ 274.65

Toshiba Mini NB255-N245 10.1-Inch Black Onyx Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life) Reviews

Review by Sam:
I’ve never really used a PC for more than a few minutes at a time at a friend’s house. I’ve been a Mac guy since 1992 when I began college and first got into graphic design. I have always hated Windows and I have always thought non-Macs felt like cheap junk, the interface always seemed difficult and clunky whether it was Windows 95 or XP. I have only tested Vista and 7 in the stores until I finally bought the bullet and just decided to get this little netbook… because, let’s face it, Apple dropped the ball with that iPad crap.

Well, I’ve only had this thing for 3 days and it didn’t take long to get used to. Some helpful people online told me which freeware to get to remove the extraneous crap Best Buy had installed on the machine and apparently I’m good to go with a couple free Antivirus programs. I probably won’t be downloading any .exe or .zip files from warez, porn or music stealing sites on this thing just because I wouldn’t really want to risk it; I’ll do that on my mac. Not that I do that sort of thing.

I’m not sure what this is really good for. I have a text editor now so I can do some HTML/CSS/PHP in a pinch, but I’m not sure I’ll ever really need to. Believe it or not, I pretty much got it just to test websites on the fly with IE8… since I do web design for a living, it just becomes inconvenient to always rely on browsershots, when I can check back and forth with my little buddy and see what’s fugged up in Intercrap Exploder. It works for that just fine. The portability is an added bonus! And the price is right!

For people who want to write their novel in Starbucks or people who waste money on this sort of crap purely to surf the net, this would be a great choice! I’ll be taking this on long trips for instant access to Google maps if I need it. For others like me who are not iPhone/Blackberry crazy, this is also useful for that kind of thing.

Youtube, Facebook, and pretty much any website I’ve tried (including some rather large ones I designed myself) look excellent on this thing. Fit on the screen well and not so small that it’s hard to read. This is a great little thing to watch videos on when you’re stuck somewhere without a tv, too… unlike an iPhone, which is painfully small to watch anything on for more than 3 minutes.

Keyboard is quality. Not junky feeling like most other PCs I’ve touched. Compared to the Acer, Dell and HP netbooks I’ve played with in the store, this thing feels like a Rolls Royce or something. Nice, solid little machine.

On a broadband wifi, it’s as fast as you could ever want or need.

Toshibas don’t come with a lot of bloatware, either. I only had to delete the Best Buy marketplace software and Norton Utilities.

Great battery life, great monitor brightness, color and clarity, Windows 7 is awesome!

All in all, a great purchase. Very satisfied.

Review by home user:
I chose this laptop for the price and the keyboard. The latter is one of the few keyboards where the keyboard is “almost” as good as a full keyboard, and allows me to type fast and efficiently with adequate response. I havent tested battery life very thoroughly but suppose it to be in the average of 6 hours or so when used vigorously. I had to remove all of the Toshiba and Bestbuy bloatware. My advise is to remove at once the Norton Antivirus (their post expiration offer with a rebate for this is sheer misleading….see other posts) Once you have got rid of that ensure that you do not have more than one antivirus operating…if you have several it can effect internet functionality big time.

in order to get my companies MS office 2007 on the machine and supported I had to upgrade from the windows 7 starter to Windows 7 professional. If I hadnt needed to do that, I probably would have stuck to windows starter, which does most other things OK. The upgrading which cost an extra 100 dollars and a bit, was extremely difficult to do, but I got MS assistance with no extra charge (surprise surprise) from their customer service and it was of a very high quality indeed.

This little computer is really fast, faster than my office computer, faster than any other laptop todate….the pine processor is really satisfactory, There are more than enough USB ports and most of the time at home I hook it up to a widescreen monitor which looks good.

I have an Ipad as well as well as this Toshiba and find my usage split 50/50, the Ipad for sheer reckless indulgent consumption of media and reference material, but I have to resort to the Toshiba for actually doing anything creative or office work. Due to the fact that the Toshiba is barely noticeable when stuffed into a briefcase, if I had to have one or the other I would take the Toshiba.

This isnt a technical review, I am not that way inclined, but in conclusion I have to say that even if this computer only lasts a couple of years it will at this price point be great value for money.

Buy Toshiba Mini NB255-N245 10.1-Inch Black Onyx Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life) now for only $ 274.65!

Toshiba Mini 300 Series NB305-N310 10.1-Inch Netbook – Black Onyx

With a new sleeker design and up to 11 hours of battery life rating, our affordable, super-compact mini NB305 is a stylish companion PC that raises the bar when it comes to portability. This innovative netbook lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it’s designed with smart features to enhance your mobile life—like a full-sized keyboard and touchpad, USB Sleep-and-Charge technology and a Hard Drive Impact Sensor that helps protect your data from the bumps and grinds of daily life. So it picks up where smart phones leave off and makes many of today’s netbooks seem a waste of time.Toshiba Mini NB305: Sleeker Design and Improved Battery Life With a new sleeker design and up to 11 hours of battery life rating, the affordable, super-compact Toshiba Mini NB305 weighs less than 3 pounds, is small enough to throw in a purse or bag, and offers a brightly colorful 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen. It features a full-size keyboard for comfortable typing and a larger touchpad with Multi-Touch Control, which enables you to navigate documents, web pages and images more easily.

With up to 11 hours of battery life the Toshiba mini NB305 lets you go through an entire day of school, work or errands without worrying about a recharge.

The NB305 features a comfortable full-size keyboard, plus a full-size touchpad with multi-touch capabilities (see larger image and schematic of all ports).

The Toshiba Mini NB305 in textured black onyx. Combining the power of the

• 1.66GHz Intel N450 Atom Processor
• 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM Memory
• 160GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive (5400RPM)
• 10.1″ LED (16:9) 1024×600 Display; Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA3150
• Genuine Windows XP Home (SP3), 11 Hours of Battery Life; Webcam

Rating: (out of 210 reviews)

List Price: $ 349.99
Price: $ 399.95

Toshiba Mini NB305-N410BL 10.1-Inch Royal Blue Netbook – 11 Hours of Battery Life

With a new sleeker design and up to 11 hours of battery life rating, our affordable, super-compact mini NB305 is a stylish companion PC that raises the bar when it comes to portability. This innovative netbook lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it’s designed with smart features to enhance your mobile life—like a full-sized keyboard and touchpad, USB Sleep-and-Charge technology and a Hard Drive Impact Sensor that helps protect your data from the bumps and grinds of daily life. So it picks up where smart phones leave off and makes many of today’s netbooks seem a waste of time.Toshiba Mini NB305: Sleeker Design and Improved Battery Life With a new sleeker design and up to 11 hours of battery life rating, the affordable, super-compact Toshiba Mini NB305 weighs less than 3 pounds, is small enough to throw in a purse or bag, and offers a brightly colorful 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen. It features a full-size keyboard for comfortable typing and a larger touchpad with Multi-Touch Control, which enables you to navigate documents, web pages and images more easily.

With up to 11 hours of battery life the Toshiba mini NB305 lets you go through an entire day of school, work or errands without worrying about a recharge.

The NB305 features a comfortable full-size keyboard, plus a full-size touchpad with multi-touch capabilities (see larger image and schematic of all ports).

The Toshiba Mini NB305 in textured royal blue. Combining the power of the latest Intel Atom N450 processor and NM10 Express chipset with a six-cell battery (5800 mAh) for up to 11 hours

• 1.66GHz Intel N450 Atom Processor
• 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM Memory
• 250GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive (5400RPM)
• 10.1″ LED (16:9) 1024×600 Display; Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA3150
• Windows 7 Starter Edition 32-bit; Webcam

Rating: (out of 210 reviews)

List Price: $ 399.99
Price: $ 347.95

Toshiba Mini NB305-N440BL 10.1-Inch Royal Blue Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life)

Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with our award-winning, super-compact NB305 netbook – a companion PC offering a smart, comfort-driven design and exclusive convenience features for light, on-the-go-computing. Thanks to excellent high-speed connectivity, the renowned Intel Atom processor, and up to an eight-hour battery life rating, this innovative best-in-class netbook lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it comes with a 10.1-Inch diagonal display, and provides smart features to enhance your mobile life – like a generous full-sized, raised tile keyboard and touchpad to ease input, USB Sleep and Charge, plus a durable textured finish and eco-inspired design. So it picks up where smart phones leave off, and makes many of today’s netbooks run a distant second.Toshiba Mini NB305: Stylish, Highly Portable Netbook Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with the affordable, super-compact Toshiba Mini NB305-N440BL, which weighs less than 3 pounds, is small enough to throw in a purse or bag, and has a brightly colorful 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen. Offering a durable textured finish and cover in Royal Blue, it features a full-size keyboard for comfortable typing and a larger touchpad with Multi-Touch Control, which enables you to navigate documents, web pages and images more easily.

With up to 8.75 hours of battery life, the Toshiba Mini NB305 offers a full day of computing without a recharge (see larger image).

Brilliantly styled in Royal Blue (see larger image).

The NB305 features a comfortable full-size keyboard, plus a full-size touchpad with multi-touch capabilities (see larger image). Combining the power

• 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 processor
• 1 GB DDR3 RAM
• 250 GB SATA hard drive
• 10.1-inch LED backlit widescreen display; Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 video processor
• Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, 8.3 hours of battery life

Rating: (out of 15 reviews)

List Price: $ 379.99
Price: $ 350.10

Toshiba Mini NB305-N410BN 10.1-Inch Java Brown Netbook – 11 Hours of Battery Life

With a new sleeker design and up to 11 hours of battery life rating, our affordable, super-compact mini NB305 is a stylish companion PC that raises the bar when it comes to portability. This innovative netbook lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it’s designed with smart features to enhance your mobile life—like a full-sized keyboard and touchpad, USB Sleep-and-Charge technology and a Hard Drive Impact Sensor that helps protect your data from the bumps and grinds of daily life. So it picks up where smart phones leave off and makes many of today’s netbooks seem a waste of time.Toshiba Mini NB305: Sleeker Design and Improved Battery Life With a new sleeker design and up to 11 hours of battery life rating, the affordable, super-compact Toshiba Mini NB305 weighs less than 3 pounds, is small enough to throw in a purse or bag, and offers a brightly colorful 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen. It features a full-size keyboard for comfortable typing and a larger touchpad with Multi-Touch Control, which enables you to navigate documents, web pages and images more easily.

With up to 11 hours of battery life the Toshiba mini NB305 lets you go through an entire day of school, work or errands without worrying about a recharge.

The NB305 features a comfortable full-size keyboard, plus a full-size touchpad with multi-touch capabilities (see larger image and schematic of all ports).

The Toshiba Mini NB305 in textured java brown. Combining the power of the latest Intel Atom N450 processor and NM10 Express chipset with a six-cell battery (5800 mAh) for up to 11 hours

• 1.66GHz Intel N450 Atom Processor
• 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM Memory
• 250GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive (5400RPM)
• 10.1″ LED (16:9) 1024×600 Display; Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA3150
• Windows 7 Starter Edition 32-bit; Webcam

Rating: (out of 210 reviews)

List Price: $ 399.99
Price: $ 349.95

Toshiba 10.1-Inch Netbook Black Soft Sleeve

Designed to fit Netbooks and MiniNBs with screens up to 10.1 inches, the Toshiba Neoprene Sleeve is a multifunctional sleeve that can be used as a stand-alone carrying case for those everyday bumps and grinds or easily fits into any other case for added protection. Whether you use it for carrying your Netbook or MiniNB back and forth to meetings or use it in your backpack for school, the shuttle gives that added protection with its double-sided neoprene and helps prevent scratches from everyday use. The heavy-duty neoprene stretches for a form fitted look.

• Fits Netbooks and MiniNBs with up to 10.1″ screens
• Use as a stand-alone case or extra protection in any other case
• Soft, durable, weather?resistant neoprene cushions and protects your Netbook and MiniNB
• Small enough to fit in your regular carrying case but tough enough to use by itself
• Stylish design combines form and function

Rating: (out of 13 reviews)

List Price: $ 19.99
Price: $ 9.99

Toshiba Mini NB305-N440BN 10.1-Inch Java Brown Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life)

Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with our award-winning, super-compact NB305 netbook – a companion PC offering a smart, comfort-driven design and exclusive convenience features for light, on-the-go-computing. Thanks to excellent high-speed connectivity, the renowned Intel Atom processor, and up to an eight-hour battery life rating, this innovative best-in-class netbook lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it comes with a 10.1-Inch diagonal display, and provides smart features to enhance your mobile life – like a generous full-sized, raised tile keyboard and touchpad to ease input, USB Sleep and Charge, plus a durable textured finish and eco-inspired design. So it picks up where smart phones leave off, and makes many of today’s netbooks run a distant second.Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with the affordable, super-compact Toshiba Mini NB305-N440BN, which weighs less than 3 pounds, is small enough to throw in a purse or bag, and has a brightly colorful 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen. Offering a durable textured finish and cover in Java Brown, it features a full-size keyboard for comfortable typing and a larger touchpad with Multi-Touch Control, which enables you to navigate documents, web pages and images more easily.

With up to 8.75 hours of battery life, the Toshiba Mini NB305 offers a full day of computing without a recharge (see larger image).

Brilliantly styled in Java Brown (see larger image).

The NB305 features a comfortable full-size keyboard, plus a full-size touchpad with multi-touch capabilities (see larger image). Combining the power of the latest Intel Atom N455 processor

• 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 processor
• 1 GB DDR3 RAM
• 250 GB SATA hard drive
• 10.1-inch LED backlit widescreen display; Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 video processor
• Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, 8.3 hours of battery life

Rating: (out of 15 reviews)

List Price: $ 379.99
Price: $ 352.00

Toshiba Mini NB205-N312/BL 10.1-Inch Royal Blue Netbook – 9 Hour Battery Life

Our affordable, super-compact 10.1-inch Toshiba mini NB205 is a stylish companion PC that raises the bar when it comes to portability. It’s also the first mini laptop that lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and digital media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it’s designed with smart features like a full-sized keyboard and touchpad, long battery life, USB Sleep-and-Charge ports and a hard drive impact sensor that protects your data. So it picks up where smart phones leave off and makes many of today’s netbooks seem like a waste of time. What’s more, to take the worry out of taking it along, the Toshiba mini NB205 also comes with international limited warranty coverage, plus our award-winning service and support. Small enough to throw in a purse or bag, the affordable, super-compact 10.1-inch Toshiba mini NB205 netbook–which weighs just under 3 pounds–is designed with smart features like a full-sized keyboard and touchpad, long battery life, USB Sleep-and-Charge ports and a hard drive impact sensor that protects your data. You’ll also get excellent battery life with the included six-cell battery that provides up to 9 hours of battery power–enabling you to go through an entire day of school, work or errands without worrying about a recharge.

With up to nine hours of battery life the Toshiba mini NB205 lets you go through an entire day of school, work or errands without worrying about a recharge (see larger image).

The distinctively styled Toshiba mini NB205-N311/W features a textured finish with a Matrix pattern in Frost White that’s sure to capture attention. Created especially for mobile devices, Intels 1.6 GHz Atom N280 processor uses

• Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz Processor
• 1GB DDR2 RAM
• 160 GB Hard Drive
• Windows XP Home, 5800 mAh 6-Cell Battery
• 10.1″ Display

Rating: (out of 238 reviews)

List Price: $ 399.99
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Toshiba Mini NB305-N440WH 10.1-Inch Frost White Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life)

Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with our award-winning, super-compact NB305 netbook – a companion PC offering a smart, comfort-driven design and exclusive convenience features for light, on-the-go-computing. Thanks to excellent high-speed connectivity, the renowned Intel Atom processor, and up to an eight-hour battery life rating, this innovative best-in-class netbook lets you enjoy all the benefits of today’s fast-moving digital world, putting you in touch with your favorite people, sites, networks and media in ways and places you never imagined. Though small enough to throw in a purse or bag, it comes with a 10.1-Inch diagonal display, and provides smart features to enhance your mobile life – like a generous full-sized, raised tile keyboard and touchpad to ease input, USB Sleep and Charge, plus a durable textured finish and eco-inspired design. So it picks up where smart phones leave off, and makes many of today’s netbooks run a distant second.Toshiba Mini NB305: Stylish, Highly Portable Netbook Enjoy the lighter, brighter side of mobility with the affordable, super-compact Toshiba Mini NB305-N440WH, which weighs less than 3 pounds, is small enough to throw in a purse or bag, and has a brightly colorful 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen. Offering a durable textured finish and cover in Frost White, it features a full-size keyboard for comfortable typing and a larger touchpad with Multi-Touch Control, which enables you to navigate documents, web pages and images more easily.

With up to 8.75 hours of battery life, the Toshiba Mini NB305 offers a full day of computing without a recharge (see larger image).

Brilliantly styled in Frost White (see larger image).

The NB305 features a comfortable full-size keyboard, plus a full-size touchpad with multi-touch capabilities (see larger image). Combining the power

• 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 processor
• 1 GB DDR3 RAM
• 250 GB SATA hard drive
• 10.1-inch LED backlit widescreen display; Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 video processor
• Microsoft Windows 7 Starter, 8.3 hours of battery life

Rating: (out of 15 reviews)

List Price: $ 379.99
Price: $ 351.48

Toshiba Mini NB305-N440WH 10.1-Inch Frost White Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life) Reviews

Review by C. Lee:
Let’s get real here. Netbooks ARE NOT replacements for those of you folks who should be shopping for a NOTEBOOK. Having owned at least 4 Toshiba notebooks in the past and currently on my first Sony notebook, I’d expect those machines to do the heavy lifting… serious Photoshopping, DV editing, CAD modelling, rendering, moderate gaming, etc. It’d be irresponsible to ding netbooks on how inadequate they are at these tasks. With this in mind, the Toshiba NB305-N440 fills a very helpful role for those of you who already have a full-fledged notebook or desktop chugging away in the background.

The Toshiba netbook’s 3lb weight and size makes it incredibly portable, handleable, and stowable. Grab it single-handedly at the palmrest, grab it at the hinges, or scoop it up from underneath; it’s construction feels sturdy and solid where you don’t have to worry about something falling off from this kind of abuse. For you existing notebook users, ever feel like you’re devoting 80% of your backpack to carrying around that bohemoth… or how about trying to use a 15″ screen on the dining tray in the cattle-section of an economy flight? ESPECIALLY when you’re just using it to compose a few paragraphs for a meeting, class, or email rant? The NB305 netbook remedies this exactly. The 10.1″ screen can be comfortably angled away from you even when the passenger in front decides to stay reclined throughout the flight. Size and weight. Advantage? Netbook.

Unlike other netbooks, Toshiba’s NB305 has a design that accomodates a 6-cell battery as standard. No outrageous goofy protrusion as in HP and Sony’s extra-cost offering. With the lid closed, the whole package remains as svelte and stowable as lesser competitors with their 3-cell designs. And BECAUSE the Toshiba NB305 has a 6-cell Li-Ion as standard, real-world usage equates to a 5-7 hour run-time with the brightness set at max while pounding away at tasks that make the hard drive thrash around. Coming from a decade of using 2-hour notebooks, its amazing to be away from an AC outlet for that long.

How about useability for a 1.66ghz machine? With the Microsoft-imposed configuration of 1gig RAM, I had my doubts about Windows 7 Starter edition. It turns out the NB305-N440 boots into the desktop in a reasonable amount of time and simple websurfing, emailing chores are handled without issue. Sites that make use of Flash like Hulu, Youtube, and a myriad of other flash-navigation stuff is very surfable on this netbook. The VGA webcam offers adequate resolution and has a wide enough capture angle to make this netbook suitable for video Skyping. Where it falls short is the speaker volume. This is pandemic of all netbooks. When in the boundaries of your personal space, the dinky speakers are barely audible enough for a conversation in all but the emptiest of coffee shops. Those of you hoping to give one of these to grandma as a dedicated Skype device should hope grandma doesn’t mind wearing headphones. No issues with the netbook’s mic as the other party will hear you fine. Did this netbook slow down? Eventually. By the time I had Skype fired up, two tabs in IE8 loaded on sizeable pages and a THIRD tab buffering a show on Hulu, the 1gig ram had to swap stuff into the hard drive. Bumping up to 2gigs DDR3 RAM would help, but you’ll have to yank out the existing one.

At first unboxing, the Toshiba NB305-N440′s brightness is set midway; passable, but not something I’d want to scowl at for more than an hour. Crank up the brightness settings and the Toshiba’s efficient LED backlit screen shows itself to be very crisp, very readable, quite bright. The next several hours was spent installing personal stuff, Win7 updates (224megs), and removing the thankfully small amount of Toshiba bloatware. All that time the bright screen was legible and comfy on the eyes. Even after Windows Update did everything it wanted, the netbook still booted up in the same 40-ish second span. That’s kinda impressive considering they’re still using a non-SSD traditional hard drive. Part of this can be attributed to the reduced amount of OS baggage in Windows 7 Starter edition. On that note, there was hardly anything I missed in this OS-lite. Can’t change the wallpaper? No big deal. The only plausible nit here is that Win7 Starter lacks multiple user accounts… so those hoping to lock things down and hand it to their tots might have to upgrade beyond “Starter Edition”.

The heat vent on the left side emitted therms about the equivalent of holding your hand up near a fluorescent desklamp. It’s there, but in no way bothersome.

While Senor Jobs positions his iPad to be a “consumption” device, there are those of us who wish to stay productive and the reason for a netbook’s existence is to sport that keyboard. The Toshiba NB305 netbooks don’t disappoint here. Touch-typists will appreciate chicklet keys that feel as nicely spaced as all the other keyboards they’ve worked on. Toshiba saved space by narrowing the traditionally long caps-lock, shift, and enter keys. The touchpad is nice too… full-size just like most big-boy notebooks. Possibly the biggest of ANY netbook. Dedicated left and right buttons are in the appropriate expected spot.

The last and most prominent nit is that the NB305 lacks built-in Bluetooth. Bluetooth would allow the Toshiba netbook to simultaneously control a mouse, feed a wireless headset, and transfer files between your smartphone. Being internal, it wouldn’t eat up a USB slot. Alas, neither the preconfigured units or ToshibaDirect offers internal Bluetooth in their netbooks. (Oddly, the Bluetooth SOFTWARE stack is already installed) The only recourse is their low-profile USB Bluetooth 2.1 dongle. Speaking of USB, one of the three slots on this netbook offers power even when the machine is off. This means only having to carry a USB charge cable for your phone instead of a larger dedicated wallwart when travelling lite.

This leaves the last de rigueur issue, High Definition. It’s seems the rage to pair up HD with netbooks nowadays. I’m one of the biggest HD snobs out there, but after using a netbook for several hours, forcing HD into a netbook form factor is just pointless… moreso when it only serves to kill the battery life with its high CPU/GPU requirement and the high-capacity battery requirement itself. Being able to stay productive for a 6-hour stretch on a Toshiba netbook trumps the notion of hunching over a 10″ screen squinting at a “high definition” file for two hours. If I’m missing a show, I’m willing to “settle” for a 480P stream from Hulu on a Toshiba NB305-N440 rather than give up two thirds the amount of battery life in some of these HD netbooks. Need a portable high-definition playback machine? Get a full-fledged notebook; full-HD widescreen, larger/louder speakers, blu-ray drive. I suggest this from first-hand experience.

Need to be productive while staying highly mobile? This Toshiba NB305-N440 is appropriate for THAT task. I can’t really ding it for lack of internal Bluetooth now that Toshiba offers their low-profile dongle. Yes it takes up a precious USB port, but it’ll make up for it by its versatility in handling a (Bluetooth) mouse, headset, smartphone, pen tablet, etc. The streamlined 6-cell battery and other forward-thinking features like LED backlight, USB charging, diminuitive AC adapter, and draft-N WiFi makes this a well-focused netbook. In its pricepoint, the NB305-N440 netbook offers a great degree of functionality out-of-the-box, exudes a good amount of sturdiness, comes with a 3 year warranty, and is born from a company that’s been into mobile computing for nearly two decades now.

Review by Melvey:
Some folks here have posted that the memory upgrade to 2 gb doesn’t work. Toshiba originally had the wrong memory upgrade listed on their site, and folks orddered it & it didn’t work. I can see how it was frustrating since it took a while for the support forum to acknowledge that. If you go to Toshiba support forums now, they have listed there the correct memory number for an upgrade to 2 gb ! Great little netbook !

Update: Memory now available is Kingston KTT1066D3S/2G

Buy Toshiba Mini NB305-N440WH 10.1-Inch Frost White Netbook (8 Hour Battery Life) now for only $ 351.48!

Brand New 10.1″ WSVGA Glossy Laptop LCD LED Screen For Toshiba Mini NB305

In Stock Top Quality Lowest price Directly from Manufacturer to replace your Toshiba Mini NB305 10.1″ WSVGA LED Screen. 120 days Warranty”

• Size: 10.1″ WSVGA
• Resolution: 1024X600
• Finish: Glossy (Glare)
• Type: TFT LED backlight
• Inverter: Not including

Price: $ 78.90