The first great thing about the L505-GS5037 is it’s a brilliant entertainment laptop, you’ll enjoy marvelous effect with it, this is why so many people are crazy about it

 

The NB305-N410 isn’t the most attractive of netbooks , but it is sturdily built and looks professional despite the color choices. This Mini features a shiny, textured lid and a silver interior finish. The bezel around the screen, while a bit wide, has the same textured pattern as the lid and trackpad, which ties everything together nicely. The battery makes the back end of the toshiba NB305-N410BL netbook slightly thicker, but it is unobtrusively tucked underneath the chassis. The netbook has three USB ports (including a “sleep and charge” USB port that lets you charge devices while the computer is in sleep mode), an ethernet port, a VGA port, an SD card reader, and audio and microphone jacks.

 

The keyboard has a good size for a netbook, with chiclet-style keys that are laid out…a bit strangely. Despite the decent size, the keyboard is still a hassle to type on, as the keys are slightly off in their placing and wider than they are tall. The function buttons are absolutely tiny, as is the tab button. The spacebar is small, but functional, and the shift keys are a pretty good size.

 

The 10.1-inch LED-backlit widescreen has a native resolution of 1024-by-600 pixels, which is average for a netbook. The glossy screen is actually one of the better netbook screens I’ve seen, and was quite easy to read, even in bright sunlight. Colors are bright and images are sharp, but moving to either side causes some pretty glaring reflections. Viewing screens with dark backgrounds also causes a lot of reflection.

 

Overall, the Toshiba NB305-N410 is solid. It has a decently sized keyboard (even if it is a bit weird), a great big trackpad, and a very comfortable screen. It’s not great for playing back video or listening to music–though the speakers are louder than many netbooks’ speakers–and it won’t win you a ton of points in the style department. Toshiba also makes a lesser netbook that starts at $349; has a smaller, 160GB hard drive; runs Windows XP; and features a nonchiclet keyboard I actually found easier to use–the Mini NB305-N310.

 

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