Toshiba Satellite L586 comes with titanium silver cover, Imprint printing technology, as well as the classics “TOSHIBA” Logo. The shell of Toshiba Satellite L586 is made of engineering plastic so that the cover of Satellite L586 is hard enough.

Toshiba Satellite L586 features a 16.0-inch LED screen with a resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels. On the top of Satellite L586 screen, there is a camera that will convenient for users to use video applications in daily life.

The screen frame of Toshiba Satellite L586 is using black frosted material, and it feels more comfortable and isn’t easy to collect fingerprints. The colors of operating area and screen frame are different, which will give us an obvious visual difference.

“TOSHIBA” Logo and Imprint Printing design

Camera of Toshiba Satellite L586

Toshiba Satellite L586 with 6-cell battery weighs 2.813kg, and adding the power adapter, Satellite L586 weighs 3.349kg. As a 16.0-inch screen laptop, there is no doubt that it is not light enough for you to carry around.

Toshiba Satellite L586 is equipped with a full size keyboard, as well as a well-spaced metal keycaps. You will feel good when typing on it. Because Toshiba Satellite L586 comes with a 16.0-inch screen, so the keyboard is large enough to come with numeric keypad, easing for users to use.

Toshiba touch pad is still in a same style; all the touch panels are using frosted material which can offer a good texture. The sizes of the left and right buttons are also large, but the key caps is comparatively narrow, so the click texture is not so comfortable.

Keyboard design of Toshiba Satellite L586

Twill design of Toshiba Satellite L586’s palmrest

Both the left and right palmrest are very smooth, and bright silver design will not reflect fingerprints obviously. There is a lean design with the front part of the palmrest, it will enhance the user’s comfort.

On the left side of Toshiba Satellite L586, there is VGA port, RJ-45, HDMI, eSATA / USB 2.0 combo port, audio input / output ports.

On the right side of Satellite L586, there is Kesington, external power supply, two USB 2.0 ports, and DVD burner.

There is a volume knob on Toshiba Satellite L586, which is a praised design. On the right side of the volume knob, there is a SD and Memory Stick card reader.

The volume knob and the card reader of Toshiba Satellite L586

Indicators of Toshiba Satellite L586

Each indicator light is arranged in the front of the Toshiba Satellite L586’s body, from the left to the right: external power status, boot status, battery charging status, hard drive reading status as well as the card reader status indicator lights. With all these indicator lights, users can easily know the running state of the laptop.

Toshiba Satellite L586 is equipped with Intel Pentium T4400 dual-core processor and GM45 chipset, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 discrete graphics card, GB DDRII-800 memory, 250GB 5400RPM SATA-II hard drive, DVD burner, as well as 802.11b / g wireless card. In addition, Toshiba Satellite L586 also comes with re-installed with Windows 7 Professional Edition 64-bit operating system.

We test it with CINEBENCH, the single-core processor score is 2247 points, while dual core processor score is 4320 points.

PCMark Vantage test for Toshiba Satellite L586

the PCMark Vantage test score of Toshiba Satellite L586 is 3664, although the score and TV, Movies do not measure, the performance of Toshiba Satellite L586 is still very good.

Entry mode of 3DMark Vantage test for Satellite L586

We test the Satellite L586 with the resolution of 1024 × 768 pixels, and the final score of Satellite L586 is 4992 points, and the GPU is with 5440 score. The performance of it is just at the middle level.

Toshiba Satellite L586 is equipped with a 10.8V 3620mAh 6-cell lithium ion battery with capacity of 44Wh. In the Windows 7 system, we test it in the “energy saving mode” with BatteryMark, the battery life of Toshiba Satellite L586 can be up to 2 hours and 55 minutes.