Toshiba Value Added Package for Windows Vista (this apparently adds value). However, I refuse to give up on the Little Tablet That Could.Įven though the M205 isn't listed as supported, I threw caution to the wind and downloaded and installed the: Many NVIDIA notebook GPUs have Windows Vista drivers already built into the operating system and install the first time you run Windows Vista. GeForce Go GPUs in notebooks are currently not supported in drivers from .Īt this time, the drivers available on do not support notebook GPUs. The NVidia Vista Drivers announcement says: I figured it was time to solve it once and for all. I've googled all over for this and found Microsoft blogs where the guy said "it's working great on internal drivers" but I can't get a straight answer from anyone. While these little workhorses will run Vanilla Vista just fine, none of the useful craplets will work and Toshiba seems to have abandoned this TabletPC for the sexier M400. Is it anything more exciting than that? No, it isn't.I've been really disappointed that the lovely Toshiba M200/M205 series of notebooks has been so poorly supported by Toshiba. Like its name suggests, this is an assembly-line iteration, a product with no inherent identity. It's hard for anyone to get excited about the Satellite L755-S5166. Toshiba's Web site and costumer service phone numbers are easy to navigate and use, and driver downloads are easy to find. Toshiba includes a standard one-year warranty with the Satellite L755-S5166. You might even consider a lower-priced ultrabook, which may not perform all that much differently but would certainly be a heck of a lot lighter. That's not surprising for a budget machine, but you can certainly find many laptops that do better. This Satellite's removable battery offered up an unimpressive battery life: 4 hours and 10 minutes of video playback on our tests. Spend closer to $1,000, and you'll find 15-inch laptops with 1,600x900-pixel or better resolutions, but at these prices, 1,366x768-pixel is fine. Toshiba's displays tend to be better than average for budget laptops, and colors show pop, but viewing angles are, as one would expect on a generic budget machine, lousy. The 15.6-inch display is standard-issue: glossy-coated, 1,366x768-pixel resolution, and suitable quality. A responsive touch pad surface doesn't justify the lack of space for multifinger gestures, and this pad is simply too small for even basic gestures on a midsize laptop. 
The touch pad beneath is a joke: it's way too narrow and tiny, and it's only exaggerated more by a pair of giant curved plastic left and right buttons below. The keyboard works well, but feels cheaper than higher-end products, and that keyboard style is quickly dying out, even on lower-end products. A big, wide keyboard and adjacent number pad offer lots of roomy typing space, but the keys are of the flat-topped, closely packed variety instead of the more common raised island-style keys.
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