No IPS panel, no maintenance lid, CPUthrottling under full load
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The Satellite S70-B-106 wants to be a high-class all-round/multimedia notebook. It definitely achieves this goal. The notebook offers a good performance and handles computer games very well. The change from a GeForce GT 740M graphics core, which was...
The Toshiba Satellite S70 provides strong all-round performance and will make a good desktop-replacement system for both home and office use. However, the screen is below par for a laptop in this price range, and that's an obvious weakness in a laptop that is clearly designed for entertainment. That leaves it looking over-priced at £1199, so if it still interests you it's worth shopping around to see if you can find it at a better price online rather than buying from Toshiba directly.
We recently reviewed Toshiba's C70 laptop, which attempted to provide a 17-inch entertainment laptop for a bargain-basement price of just £379. The C70 was certainly cheap, but a laptop at that price inevitably offers pretty modest performance and build...
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