Mainstream gets thinner with Toshiba Satellite S955 Video

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Mainstream gets thinner with Toshiba Satellite S955
Created: 08/29/2012
Video description: How thin should a laptop be? Surrounded by sleek laptops everywhere, this midrange 15-inch laptop's wisely decided to get trimmed down, too.

Mainstream gets thinner with Toshiba Satellite S955 Video Transcript

-- Scott Stein and this is an early look at the Toshiba satellite X 955. No way of ultra books and thin laptops everywhere the larger standard mainstream fifteen inch laptop has looked pretty chunky. Now -- -- -- Shiva for redesigning their basic affordable line of satellite S laptops. The S 955. Is thinner all around that it's ever been. -- the claim up to 30% thinner you can notice -- on the sides its very flash. Very clean looking and even inside the keyboard looks very nice. No surprises a fifteen point six inch screen starts about five pounds aluminum finish. I am a third gen core -- WLB or an EM DE processor. Along with -- of ram -- 150 gigabyte hard drive. It looks nice. It feels nice. And it's a little bit thinner and that's I think the direction and allow laptops are going to be going once windows eight launches and looking forward. I'm Scott Stein and that's a quick look at the Toshiba satellite -- 955. -- October 26.

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