Toshiba’s Satellite range went through a shake-up back in April, arguably in an attempt to bring some of the multimedia Qosmiogloss to its more bread & butter machines. Out went drab casings and middle of the road specs, replaced with a stylish new design and the promise of healthy performance. SlashGear has been taking a look at the Toshiba Satellite M305-S4826, a fixed-spec notebook running Intel’s T8100 Core 2 Duo processor with 3GB of RAM and a 14.1-inch WXGA display capable of 720p high-definition. The 14-inch laptop space is a hotly contested one: can this particular Satellite stand out?

First impressions – by which we mean the moment before you actually touch the M305 – are good. Toshiba call the finish on this particular laptop “Fusion” with an “Horizon pattern”; we’d call it metallic silver with black pinstripes, but either way it’s a far better look than the last-generation of machines. The keyboard too has had its own makeover, buffed to a high-gloss. As soon as you touch it, though, the M305 gets a whole lot more frustrating: there’s no biometric scanner, but the notebook certainly saves your fingerprints. Just about the only non-gloss part of the notebook that you’ll commonly touch is the trackpad, which sits flush with the wrist-rest and is matte and slightly textured.
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