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Toshiba Satellite LX835-D3380 review: below average display, underperforming |
January 16, 2013
The Toshiba Satellite LX835 starts at $1399.99, which doesn’t exactly put it in the budget all-in-one category (if such a category even exists). But you’d never know that by looking at it—thanks to its be-stickered bezel, unimpressive touchscreen, and cheap peripherals, it doesn’t exactly look like a top-of-the-line machine out of the box.
Our review model is the base $1399.99 model, and sports a third-generation Intel Core i7-3630QM processor, 8GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GT630M discrete graphics card. It also has an impressively large (for the all-in-one category) 2TB hard drive, built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n, and a DVD-RW optical drive. The LX835 runs Windows 8.
Performance
In PCWorld’s WorldBench 8 benchmark tests, the Satellite LX835 scores 67 out of 100. This means that the LX835 is 33 percent slower than our testing model, which has a third-generation Intel Core i5 desktop processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive. This isn’t too surprising—although the LX835 is technically a desktop, it’s an all-in-one desktop with a fairly slim profile, and it has a less powerful mobile processor instead of a desktop processor.
In our individual performance tests, the LX835 lags behind other desktops. It starts up relatively quickly (22.8 seconds), which is about 10 seconds faster than our reference desktop. In our PCMark 7 productivity test, the LX835 scores 1433, which is very low compared to the reference system (4633), but not too bad compared to other desktops sporting i5 mobile processors, such as the Vizio CA24T-A4 and the Acer Aspire 7600U-UR308. Both of those desktops have i5-3210 processors and scored below 1000 on PCMark 7.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025287/toshiba-satellite-lx835-d3380-review-below-average-display-underperforming.html
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