Toshiba Satellite M600, as upgrade of M500, has a breakthrough in design. Matte finish together with glossy edge makes Toshiba Satellite M600 laptop more stylish and anti-fingerprint. What’s more, Satellite M600 adopts Nvida optimus graphics card automatic switching technology. It is GT330M that balances well between battery life and efficient performance. And Satellite M600 inherits the previous Harman Dayton audio to revolutionize your entertainment experience.
Screen, Keyboard and Touchpad
Using the most popular matte texture material, Toshiba Satellite M600 laptop turns to be more durable and wear resistant than piano baking finish M500 which would leave scratches in use. The same as Satellite M600 cover, its matte finish silvery palm rest shines in the light.
Toshiba Satellite M600 14-inch HD screen decorated with piano baking finish frame
Satellite M600 continues to use the proud Harman Toshiba Dayton speakers. If you are not audiophiles, we believe Toshiba M600′s speakers are sound enough to meet your daily enjoyment.
Toshiba M600 200W pixel camera together with pickup MIC on the left
Having reviewed Toshiba M600’s screen and sound, then let’s have a look at Satellite M600′s shortcuts setting above the keyboard Those shortcuts are power switch, ECHO power plan, media center, play / pause, rewind, fast forward, mute and volume control keys. And Satellite M600 chocolate keyboard feels good while typing. In addition, it’s quiet to knock, even at night it will not affect others.
Satellite M600 grinding materials touchpad and big shiny buttons design match well with striped palm rest.
Commendable security
Although Toshiba Satellite M600 is aimed at positioned as home entertainment laptop, fingerprint identification system is also adopted. Setting up fingerprint password can prevent the loss of documentation.
Toshiba Satellite M600 touchpad control switch, which can effectively prevent accidental misuse.
Interfaces
Toshiba Satellite M600 layout of interface is acceptable, but it gives up previous convenient volume control knob.
Toshiba M600 left side interface: a slot-in drive, two USB2.0 and RJ45
Toshiba M600 multi card reader is designed in front-end for user to plug the digital memory card easily.
Toshiba M600 right side interface: E-SATA, HDMI and Express Card slot
As E-SATA is close to HDMI as well as similar appearance, users may insert a wrong interface
Toshiba Satellite M600 power connector on the right
It is not ideal that Toshiba M600’s heat outlet is designed on the right, where your hand suffers the wind.
Toshiba Satellite M600 sinking spindle design with the max opening angle of 130°
Configuration
Toshiba M600 sports Core 2 i5-520M processor with 2.407GHz and 2GB DDR3 memory. As Toshiba M600 adopts new NV Optimus switching technology for the first time, it may perform great in 3D games and even high-definition play. Equipped with Toshiba 500GB SATA 7200RPM hard disk Toshiba M600 shows the positioning of audio and video entertainment.
In PCMarkVantage test, Toshiba M600 graphics processing performance is not so satisfactory. But Toshiba M600 deals well with video play, 2D rendering, or general 3D processing. Above all, Toshiba M600 has upgraded to meet daily application and audio and video entertainment.
In 3D test, its excellent scores promise running most popular 3D games at ease.
We use HD Tune Pro to test 500 GB Toshiba SATA hard drives. According to the test, it got the maximum read speed of 80.6MB / s, average read speed of 60.8MB / s, response time of 17 milliseconds. Hard disk reaches 35 ℃ during the test, which is desirable.
In CineBench R10 test, Toshiba Satellite M600 i5 520M scores 6810 points. Compared with the previous generation processor, it has improved greatly.
As for battery life, we use BatteryMark 4.01 to test. Toshiba M600 is equipped with a 48Wh battery which lasts for 3 hours and 39 minutes in the test. It is worth mentioning that due to the automatic M600 graphics switching, it is set to integrated graphics mode to test battery life, which has effectively improved the life time.
Summary:
The new design and high-performance Toshiba Satellite M600 laptop is just the ticket for who pursue perfect audio and video experience. Moreover, Toshiba M600 has added ECO’s energy management, so that you can effectively manage your notebook’s power consumption to achieve the purpose of energy saving.