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hi I'm Scott Stein and the toshiba satellite you 8 45 s 406 all right Honda seconds you know what these are pretty boring right these are boring laptops I'm not going to hide it and you shouldn't hide it because this holiday season let's face it we're seeing a lot of ultrabooks and a lot of budget ultrabooks it's getting numbing even for us here that review laptops it's kind of crazy for about 700 800 dollars which by the way is not cheap for a laptop but it's cheap for an ultrabook you can get these 13 14 inch laptops with hard drives as opposed to SSDs 500 gigabytes for gigs of RAM you go down the numbers they all kind of have about the same processor inside until core i5 and they perform pretty similarly so what's the difference well very very fine points and details it's kind of netbooks where a couple of years ago you basically have to play with them see if you like the keyboard see if you like the trackpad see if the weight feels right when it comes to this toshiba satellite you a four or five it's in the gray zone it's kind of neither here nor there the price 879 is the MSRP you might find it for lower hopefully you can because I think a laptop like this probably deserves to be more in the seminars or 52 7 99 range 879 feels pretty high and what you get is a core i5 processor 4 gigs of ram 500 gigabyte hard drive on falling asleep here as I talk about this because you've seen this over and over and over again and it does not have an optical drive because ultrabooks don't have optical drives that was a great idea when ultrabooks were really thin but this laptop it's thin her it's not really thin what does that mean who knows what that means for you it probably means it's going to feel like a regular laptop but sort of a thinner one but it's not going to feel razor thin like a macbook air because it isn't three point seven pounds is lighter than a 13-inch macbook pro for instance or one of those laptops these laptops kind of pissed me off because and they might piss you off because you are paying up for something that's no longer quite in the super thin ultrabook spec but you're going to see a lot of these this holiday does it perform well it performs well you know it's the performance is actually pretty similar to all the others with the core i5 processor that this one has battery life is five and a half hours which is good you know there are others that are better seven hours the screen quality not so good the keyboard quality mm I didn't like it that much but it's backlit the trackpad seemed a little bit finicky and a little bit sticky to click for something like this i really want all that stuff to be aces if i'm going to be buying into this sort of middle range laptop if you're desperate and you find that this is the laptop that's available for you to purchase it will do you find it will work like a regular old laptop except you won't be able to put dvds inside and it's only got integrated graphics so there you go this is the distrib of satellite you 8 45 s 406 you can get one for Less that has a core i3 processor which we didn't review and perform a little bit more slowly i'm scott stein and forgive me for not being tremendously excited about thee toshiba satellite you ate four or five s 406