A great sounding sound system and a great-looking 16-inch display, the Toshiba Satellite A665-S6086, available at Amazon, a large entertainment notebook. It lacks the Blu-ray drive, the same configured and priced Toshiba Satellite A665-S6085, but it makes up for this loss with an extended-life battery a much longer life battery and produces a WiMax radio for high-speed wireless broadband.
Both laptops also share the same footprint (15 by 10 inches), but because the A665-S6086 adds a 12-cell extended-life battery 98WH to the mix (the A665-S6085 comes with a 6-cell 48Wh battery) 2.2-inch thick, the A665-S6086′s rear feet stick up about 0.75 inches higher than the more slender Toshiba A665-S6085. Also because of the extended-life battery, the A665-S6086 (6.12 pounds) is heavier than the Toshiba A665-S6085 (5.55 pounds), respectively.
The “tile”-like keyboard on the two laptops are identical, where the square, isolated key titles like Scrabble. The keys have nice trip, and there is only a little bit of flex to the right of the keyboard and on the dedicated number pad. A strip of touch-sensitive buttons is above the keyboard. The buttons are the Toshiba Power Utility Eco-management application, 802.11b/g/n the radio on and off, adjust volume, play and pause and play media. There is also a button that the backlight of Toshiba logo on the left corner of the palm rest and a thin LED strip above the touchpad turns. The touchpad surface is smooth, responsive, multitouch gestures, and easy-to-press buttons make it a joy to use. It is level with the palm resting A665-S6086.
Like the Toshiba A665-S6085, the A665-S6086′s outstanding feature is the great audio system. Even without a subwoofer, the fresh-sounding and very loud Harmon Kardon speakers actually a hint of bass. You can also use sparkling speaker of the A665-S6086′s, even when the laptop is in sleep mode or turned off by connecting an MP3 player on the laptop, the A665-S6086′s “Sleep-and-Music” feature.
The impressive audio quality of the sound system carries over to movie soundtracks as well. Not only movies sound great, they look great on clear and color-rich, the A665-S6086′s 16-inch display. But as with most glossy displays, reflections can be problematic, unless you’re in a dark room. Even with a native resolution of 1366 x 768, you can not watch 1080p videos in their native resolution, but this is less a problem with the A665-S6086 than it is with the Toshiba A665-S6085, a Blu-inclusive ray drive the A665-S6086 comes with a more pedestrian dual-layer DVD +/ RW drive.
The RF510 has a good range of interfaces, including a surprise: USB 3.0. On the left side of the chassis are two USB 2.0 ports, VGA and HDMI video outputs, an Ethernet port and two audio jacks. Over on the right side is a DVD burner and two USB 3.0 ports. The latter, when used with compatible devices are capable of transfer rates of up to 5 G bps. This corresponds to a theoretical ten-fold increase over USB 2.0. (The faster ports are distinguished by blue USB ports, while the USB 2.0 ports, use black.) A four-format flash card reader located on the lower front edge of the notebook is located, and a 1.3-megapixel webcam is embedded in the – Display of the upper panel. The standard edition webcam is good for quick snapshots and utilitarian Skyping, but too coarse for photos you want to keep.
