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Dynabook Toshiba Satellite Pro 14 C40-G-109 Laptop Review.

 

That’s a mouthful… but here we go with another Laptop review. This time it’s a Dynabook (Toshiba) 14” lightweight laptop. Again, this is one of my laptops, and it’s one that I carry around with me in my backpack in case I am onsite, or out, and need a laptop for any reason.

It’s a small and light laptop is perfect for light use surfing the ‘net, dealing with emails and the odd bit of word processing, etc. It comes with an Intel Celeron dual core CPU running at 1.9Ghz, together with 4Gb ram (that is expandable), and a 128Gb SSD, loaded with Windows 10 Pro (Education edition). As stated, the ram is expandable and I’ve already upgraded it to 8Gb as Windows runs much happier with 8Gb – the only downside is that to upgrade the ram, you must remove the case bottom, and replace the single ram module with a larger capacity one.

In general use, the laptop is fast enough, but not something that I would want to try and game on as the CPU is of an older design and only has 2 cores. It takes less than a minute to start from pressing the on button to being able to use, and once on, does most things at a speed that means you aren’t waiting for it. Battery life is given as up to 15 or so hours, but in my time with it so far, it’s never showed more than 5 hours of battery lift on the Windows Battery ‘Guess-o-meter’.

Weight wise, it’s around 1.5Kg and only having a 14” screen is quite easy to hold in one hand (though not recommended if it’s open and being used!). It comes with a Gigabit Lan socket, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) and Bluetooth 5.0, it also has 1 USB-C 3.1 Gen1, 2 x USB 3.1, 1 x HDM and a Headphone/microphone combo jack. Charging is via a supplied DC barrel jack (The USB-C port says it’s PD/Data/Video, but not sure if it will charge via the port).

Screen resolution isn’t HD due to the size of the screen but is 1366 x 768 and is also anti-reflective so is easy to read.

I’ve only had the laptop for a couple of weeks so far, so can’t give long time feelings, but if it carries on as it is, then I doubt it will have any issues.

Would I recommend this laptop – Yes, if you just want something for the odd email and internet searching, or like me, as a carry around laptop for the odd occasion you need one.


Just as an additional note: This laptop will run Windows 11 according to Microsoft's checker. I will probably upgrade it when it says it's available to see what happens....

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