The Toshiba Satellite M640 and M645 offer a 14-inch laptop with VGP-BPS13 Battery solid performance and an attractive design at a modest price. As parents and students gear up for the back-to-school season, does the Satellite VGP-BPS13A/Q Battery M640 below at the top of your shopping list? Keep reading to see what we think of this Core i5-equipped model with Nvidia discrete graphics.

Build and Design
The Satellite M640/M645 is the latest generation of multimedia notebooks from Toshiba and is designed to offer a perfect balance of performance VGP-BPS13A/B Battery and style. At first glance, the design of the M645 is pretty traditional with sculpted edges, a mixture of smooth VGP-BPS13/B Battery and textured glossy plastics, and some attractive LED accent lighting. The exterior is covered in what Toshiba calls the "Fusion X2 Finish in Charcoal." Personally, I call it black glossy plastic with a textured "chain" pattern imprinted in the surface to help hide fingerprints and dirt. Despite the silly marketing name for the finish, I have to give VGP-BPS13B/B Battery Toshiba credit here. The textured chain pattern gives you the modern look of the glossy plastics but doesn't look like a horrible magnet for smudges, dirt, or whatever else a student spills on a VGP-BPS13B/Q Battery laptop.

Build and Design
The Satellite M640/M645 is the latest generation of multimedia notebooks from Toshiba VGP-BPS13A/S Battery and is designed to offer a perfect balance of performance and style. At first glance, the design of the M645 is pretty traditional VGP-BPS13/Q Battery with sculpted edges, a mixture of smooth and textured glossy plastics, and some attractive LED accent lighting. The exterior is covered in what Toshiba calls the "Fusion X2 Finish in Charcoal." Personally, I call it black glossy plastic with a textured "chain" pattern imprinted in the surface to help hide fingerprints and dirt. Despite the silly marketing name for the finish, I have to give Toshiba credit here. The textured chain pattern gives you the modern look of the glossy VGP-BPS9 Battery plastics but doesn't look like a horrible magnet for smudges, dirt, or whatever else a student spills on a laptop.

The bottom of the notebook includes two access plates for the RAM, wireless card and the hard VGP-BPS8 Battery drive. Despite the fact that most people buying consumer multimedia notebooks don't perform upgrades, Toshiba engineers made VGP-BPS9A/B Battery is very easy to get inside this laptop. You only have to remove one screw to access the hard drive and one screw to get to the RAM and wireless card.

Screen and Speakers
The M645 has a 14-inch diagonal display with LED backlighting and a 16:9 aspect ratio. The overall quality of the display is "very good" VGP-BPS9/B Battery within the narrow vertical viewing angle sweet spot. The backlight is even and bright, contrast is sharp and colors are good though the colors VGP-BPS9/S Battery are a little warm at the default settings. If there is a single obvious issue it has to be the narrow vertical viewing angles. While the VGP-BPS8A Battery horizontal viewing angles (side view) are nearly flawless, the colors become over exposed when viewed from above and significantly inverted and distorted when viewed from below. If you are using this laptop for color-accurate editing you will need VGP-BPS2 Battery to be certain you're viewing the screen from straight ahead.

The display's 1366x768 resolution is a standard resolution for mainstream notebooks. The horizontal VGP-BPS2A Battery resolution is adequate, however only 768 pixels of vertical space means a good deal of scrolling while surfing the Internet and only VGP-BPS2B Battery enough space to view about one-half of a page in a Microsoft Word.

The Satellite M645 features harman/kardon branded stereo speakers located just above the keyboard. These speakers provide an excellent range VGP-BPS2C Battery of highs, midtones and lows with surprisingly rich base for a notebook without a dedicated subwoofer. Since these speakers are located dell latitude e6400 battery above the keyboard they direct sound up and toward the user. Another item worth mentioning is dell latitude e6500 battery Toshiba's "Sleep-and-Music" feature which allows you to isten to music from your MP3 player through these fantastic laptop speakers even when your laptop is powered down in sleep mode. The headphone jack also provides a great, static-free connection for external dell latitude e4300 battery speakers or earphones

Keyboard and Touchpad
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The Synaptics touchpad is a fairly nice with a matte texture Dell latitude d630 battery that provides smooth cursor movement. The touchpad drivers provide excellent accuracy and minimal lag with a range of options. This is a multi-touch touchpad with customizable gestures and overall this touchpad works exactly like you want a touchpad to work. However, Dell studio 15 battery the touchpad buttons have very shallow feedback with moderately loud clicks when you press the buttons.

Ports and Features
The Satellite M645 features a great range of ports--making this laptop one of the good battery more "future proof" 14-inch notebooks we've recently reviewed. You get two USB 2.0 ports and a combo eSATA/USB 2.0 port in battery case you want to use fast external storage drives. The M645 also features dual video out ports: a VGA connection battery for old-school projectors and HDMI for new monitors and HDTVs. More importantly, the M645 includes an ExpressCard slot so you can upgrade this battery laptop with USB 3.0 ports if you need them. All picture descriptions are left to right.