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Stop me if you've heard this before: A sleek new ultrabook saunters onto the stage sporting a svelte design and lightweight chassis while yielding decent benchmark scores. Sound familiar? The Toshiba Satellite U845-S406 ($879.99 list) is about as familiar as they come, comfortably sporting all the ultrabook trappings without doing much distinguish itself, unlike its contemporary, the Toshiba Satellite U845W-S410 , whose extra-wide display sets it apart from the pack. That said, the U845-S406 is a decent ultrabook for everyday users looking for a well-designed, reasonably priced system.
The U845-S406 measures 0.8 by 13.5 by 9.1 inches (HWD). Its relatively light weight of 3.6 pounds inches it toward the heavier end of the ultrabook realm, landing somewhere between the Asus Zenbook with battery like Toshiba PA3250U-1BRS Battery , Toshiba PA3356U-1BRS Battery , Toshiba PA3291U-1BRS Battery , Toshiba PA3506U-1BRS Battery , Toshiba PA3591U-1BRS Battery , Toshiba Portege 4000 Battery , Toshiba Satellite A10 Battery , Toshiba Satellite A100 Battery , Toshiba Satellite A70 Battery , Toshiba Satellite A75 Battery , Toshiba Tecra 8000 Battery , Toshiba Tecra 8100 Battery Prime UX32VD-DB71 (3.2 pounds) and the Dell Inspiron 14z (Summer 2012) (4.08 pounds). Its chassis is constructed entirely out of brushed aluminum and is handsomely decked out in what Toshiba has dubbed a "Sky Silver" finish. Its 14-inch display has a resolution of 1,366 by 768, which is good enough for 720p HD video and looks great, though not as sharp as the as the Asus UX32VD-DB71's class-leading 1080p HD (1,920 by 1,080) resolution. The screen is bright and glossy, so it's not ideal for bright, sunny environments.
That said, the U845-S406's backlit keyboard will still allow anybody trapped in dimly-lit settings to work comfortably. Moreover, the tiled keyboard is great for typing, exhibiting minimal flexing and, thankfully, there's also a caps-lock light, an otherwise ordinary feature that's strangely absent in many ultrabooks. The generously-sized palmrest offers plenty of space for your hands to comfortably lounge about on, save for the occasional stray thumb inadvertently grazing the clickpad. The clickpad itself is responsive, with a good amount of tactile feedback for two-finger scrolling and pinch-zooming. And while the left- and right- click buttons are integrated into a singular design, its elliptical markings distinguish both sides, thereby eliminating any inadvertent clicking of the wrong button.
Five speakers can be found on the underside of the U845-S406, with two extending up the system's left and right sides. Testing them out with The Knife's "Silent Shout" yielded fairly loud playback by ultrabook standards, though the bass was somewhat subdued. Typical of ultrabooks, port selection on the U845-S406 is limited. The system's right side has two USB 2.0 ports, a multi-card reader (SDHC/SDXC/SD/MMC), and an Ethernet port. The left side sports a USB 3.0 port (with "Sleep and Charge" technology for charging USB peripherals when the system is asleep), headphone and microphone inputs, and a full-size HDMI port. The latter nicely eliminates the need to fuss with any dongles, so connecting the U845-S406 to a larger display is a straightforward affair. Alternatively, you can ditch the cables altogether and utilize the U845-S406's built-in Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) technology to beam the its audio and video to an HDTV kitted out with an aftermarket adapter, like the Netgear Push2TV ($99 list).