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The Toshiba Excite 10 is quite a full featured Android tab where, like most 10-inchers, the only real downside was the price. You may remember our own Edgar Cervantes’ glowing review of the tablet a few months ago where he had mostly good things to say about the WiFi tab. Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, a full gig of RAM, Ice Cream Sandwich and great battery life were just a few of the notable specs. The Excite 10′s standout feature? It’s full sized SD card slot for easy uploading of your high-quality DSLR’s shots to Instagram.
If you hurry, you can pick up a Toshiba Excite 10 from Costco where it’s currently been discounted to a very affordable $300 for the 16GB model, and $350 for the 32GB. Not bad at all considering that it fits in nicely with Android’s new “Nexus 7 with battery such as Toshiba PA2445UR Battery , Toshiba PA2454UR Battery , Toshiba Tecra 750 Battery , Toshiba Tecra 780 Battery , Toshiba PABAS250 Battery , Toshiba PA3612U-1BAS Battery , Toshiba PA3612U-1BRS Battery , Toshiba PA3614U-1BRP Battery , Toshiba PABAS176 Battery , Toshiba Portege R600 Battery , Toshiba PA3009U-1BAT Battery , Toshiba PA3062U-1BAT Battery pricing model” the world now expects from high-ish end tablets. And the Excite 10 even comes with a rear camera to boot.
It’s the cutting-edge business laptops that take the plaudits and seize the attention, but there’s much to be said for corporate machines that aren’t saddled with four-figure prices. Toshiba’s latest, the Satellite Pro L830-10G, is an affordable 13.3in laptop with its sights set on more modest IT budgets.
At just £413 inc VAT, the Toshiba is as cheap as business laptops get. That’s a tempting headline figure, but it doesn’t take long to see where Toshiba has taken swipes at its budget. Little inspires about the design, which is all grey and glossy black plastic, and the patchy build quality bespeaks the Satellite Pro’s budget beginnings.
The keyboard is the first giveaway. The plastic surround bounces with every keypress, and the right-hand side proved even more flexible than the left, making for an indistinct, woolly feel while typing. The trackpad suffers from similar afflictions: the touchpad itself is responsive, but the hinged buttons feel stiff and awkward.
The base is flexible, too, with even light twisting causing the chassis to distort noticeably, and stronger heaves elicit the odd creak here and there. The lid, thankfully, is a little better: you have to press quite firmly on the lid before any distortion is visible on the display.
At this price, it’s no surprise to find that it’s a 13.3in, 1,366 x 768 resolution panel. Image quality is pretty average, but it’s perfectly usable for everyday applications. The contrast ratio of 227:1 is a little better than the 196:1 we recorded from the £440 inc VAT Acer Aspire 5750G, our current budget favourite, but there’s some ugly backlight leakage along the bottom of the screen. Colour accuracy isn’t good, either, with colours in our test images lacking their usual vibrancy – with an average Delta E of 11, the Toshiba’s display is typical budget laptop fare.