The Toshiba Satellite A665-S5184 can be classified as a high end machine. The reason is simple. The Toshiba Satellite A665-S5184 is powered by the Intel’s Core i7-2630qm Sandy Bridge processor, which is essentially a 2 GHz processor. You may be wondering why a 2 GHz processor will make a notebook high end. Well this processor has 4 cores and you are actually looking at a machine that essentially can be assumed to have 4 processors. Notice also that the processor supports the turbo boost, using which it can ramp the frequency all way to 2.9 GHz for fulfill any increased demand for the processing power. The duration for which the processor can operate and higher frequency, called turbo frequency, is relatively small. The reason is, if the processor is left to run at a higher core frequency for a longer duration of time, it will produce too much of heat that the heating and cooling arrangements can sustain.

So back to the Toshiba Satellite A665-S5184 review. This notebook comes with 6 GB of RAM. Although the higher amount of RAM does not necessarily improves the performance under all circumstances, it is nice to have them. If you are running programs that need just 2 GB of RAM, you never end up utilizing the higher RAM that is available with the RAM.

The Hard disk is 500 GB. And this should be decent for most needs. The Toshiba Satellite A665-S5184 comes with a standard 15.” LCD screen with 1366 x 768 resolution. The notebook is backlight is lit using LED, which seems to have become standard technology with almost all the LCDs that come now a days. The LED backlighting has brighter display and, additionally, it saves energy and the battery light by consuming lower power. The LED backlighting is a greener technology and is going to stay here for a while.

Another notable aspect of the Toshiba Satellite A665-S5184 is its high battery life. Using the 12 cell battery, the notebook can last 9 hours in a single charge according to the Toshiba Specification. Something remarkable for a high end computing machine.