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Toshiba’s M50-A-11C sits halfway between a slim ultraportable and a powerful general purpose laptop, both in terms of its specification and its price. Its thin chassis measures just 21mm thick, but you’ll find a good variety of ports round the side, inclu...
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A powerful laptop with dedicated graphics and a superb battery life for £550, but its below average screen holds it back...
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There are several models in the M50 range, equipped with a variety of both Intel and AMD processors and with prices varying from £400 to £600. However, we reviewed the M50-A-11Q model, which typically costs £449 from a number of online retailers, and whic...
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The M50-A-11Q provides very respectable performance, battery life and build quality at a competitive price. It's not perfect, and the screen's limited viewing angles are a clear weakness. Even so, it's well worth considering if you're on a tight budget an...
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A significant chunk of the laptop market is still taken up by traditional notebooks that trounce Ultrabooks with larger screens, more versatile specifications and lower prices than many of Intel's hyped-up machines can currently match.The Satellite M50-A-...
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Fast processor, Discrete graphics card, Reasonable battery life, Good keyboard, Affordable...
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Average build quality, Poor, quality screen, Unimaginative design, Terrible speakers, No SSD...
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The M50 falls down when it comes to its screen quality and physical design, but it's not as if its rivals are any better in this regard – every other machine here makes do with a 1,366 x 768 panel of middling quality, and none offer much more than typica...
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techradar.com/au/ Updated: 2014-04-13 02:50:55
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A significant chunk of the laptop market is still taken up by traditional notebooks that trounce Ultrabooks with larger screens, more versatile specifications and lower prices than many of Intel's hyped-up machines can currently match.The Satellite M50-A-...
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Fast processor, Discrete graphics card, Reasonable battery life, Good keyboard, Affordable...
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Average build quality, Poorquality screen, Unimaginative design, Terrible speakers, No SSD...
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The M50 is a mid-range machine, but it's clear that Toshiba's budget has swung towards the components: the Core i5 processor is one of the fastest we've seen in a mid-range notebook, and the discrete Nvidia core is better than integrated Intel chipsets an...
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Toshiba's Satellite M50-A series is aimed at the consumer market (without Toshiba specifying a dedicated target audience on its product pages ). All of the laptops within this series ship with the same chassis and the same screen (1366 x 768 pixels, TN LE...
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Fancy design, Rather quiet operation given the form factor, Decent keyboard, Wellpositioned ports, Gamingfriendly, Wellbehaved fan, Decent speakers (for a laptop)...
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Dark subpar display, Sharp edges close to the palm rest, No maintenance options, No upgrade options, Battery soldered to the device, Fan buzzes under full load...
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Toshiba Satellite M50-A-11L, provided by Toshiba.Our review may already have revealed that we weren't entirely satisfied with the Toshiba Satellite M50-A-11L - there are just too many (often unnecessary) real-life disadvantages for them to be ignored.The...
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