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Toshiba Satellite P755-1001X – A Multimedia Workhorse

By James Lu - 12 Nov 2011
Launch SRP: S$1399

Battery Performance and Portability Index

Battery Performance

With their built-in optical drives and generous screen size, multimedia notebooks seem like the perfect choice for watching DVDs on your long haul airplane flight. But of course, they have to have the battery life to back it up. There’s nothing worse than getting most of the way through your Michael Bay flick, only for your battery to die when you’re a mere 20 to 30 explosions from the end.

The P755 is powered by this 6-cel,l 10.8V, 48Wh capacity battery.

Specifications / Notebook Toshiba Satellite P755 Samsung RF511 HP Pavilion dv6
Battery 10.8V / 48Wh 11.1V / 48Wh 10.8V / 55Wh
Dimensions 380.5 x 254.0 x 30.0 / 37.6mm 378 x 254 x 31 / 36mm 378 x 246.8 x 31.1 / 35.2mm
Weight 2.60 kg 2.60 kg 2.63 kg

How did the P755 fare? Unfortunately the low 48Wh capacity 6-cell Li-ion battery was not as good as the other models. Samsung’s RF511 uses a similar 48Wh capacity battery, and uses the same quad-core processor, and was able to last an extra 27 minutes. The P755 sputtered out at just 1 hour 46 minutes which, granted, is enough to finish most Hollywood blockbusters these days, but you’ll definitely want to leave the Lord of the Rings box set at home. When dissecting the cause for Toshiba's slightly underwhelming battery life, the higher than expected power consumption was the key culprit here.

 

Portability Index

At 2.60kg, the P755 is a middleweight notebook - for a multimedia class at least. Just picking it up, it feels light and small enough that you could carry it around in a messenger bag or backpack, but it's probably not something you want lugging around all day. But if you've been spoiled by the light weight of the new Ultrabooks coming in these days, you're not going to enjoy carrying multimedia notebooks. However, that's a different class of notebooks altogether and you can't get the processing power nor the large screen size of multimedia notebooks like the Toshiba Satellite P755.  In comparison to our other models of its class, the P755 is slightly lighter than the HP Pavilion dv6, which weighs 2.63kg, and has the same weight as the Samsung RF511. However, our Portability Index factors in a unit’s battery life as well as weight, and the P755’s poor battery life again caused it to score lower than the other two models.

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8.0
  • Design 8
  • Features 7.5
  • Performance 8
  • Value 7.5
  • Mobility 8
The Good
Fingerprint repellent
Backlit keyboard and trackpad
Decent performance
The Bad
Plastic construction
Poor battery life
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