Toshiba Satellite P845T-S4310 review: a little too bulky for the price

Toshiba’s Satellite P845t-S4310 is an interesting mix of budget laptop and all-purpose machine. It’s bigger and bulkier than most of the sleek machines on the market today, and its performance leaves quite a bit to be desired – even within its class. But it’s not quite at the price point ($800 or less) of a budget model, probably thanks to its sturdy aluminum body and premium speakers. This laptop is a Best Buy exclusive.

Our review model, which costs $910 as configured, has a third-generation Intel Core i5-3317U processor, 6GB of RAM, and a 750GB hard drive. The Satellite also has a 14-inch touchscreen, a DVD-RW drive, and built-in Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n with WiDi capability, and it runs Windows 8.

Performance

In PCWorld’s WorldBench 8 benchmark tests, the Satellite P845t-S4310 scores 43 out of 100. This means that the Satellite is about 57 percent slower than our baseline testing model, which has a third-generation Intel i5 desktop processor, 8GB of RAM, and a discrete Nvidia graphics card. It’s perhaps a bit unfair to compare a budget all-purpose laptop with a desktop, but the Satellite still underperforms for its category. The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga, for example, which is both slimmer and more flexible than the Satellite (and which has the same mobile processor), managed a score of 60 on our WorldBench 8 tests. The HP Envy TouchSmart 4 managed a score of 57. So the Satellite isn’t awful, but it’s also not performing up to par when compared with other similarly-equipped laptops.

The Satellite does not do much better in individual performance tests. In the PCMark 7 office productivity it scored 822, well behind the Yoga’s score of 2115 and the TouchSmart’s score of 2058. Some of the performance difference is likely due to the hard drive, as the system lacks an SSD or even a small SSD to act as a hard drive cache.

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