Toshiba Satellite L50D-C-13G

摘要

At an original price of £430 and currently discounted by £100, this mid-range laptop looks excellent value on paper - not least because rather than a compact 11 or 13in screen it has a full 15.6in display, the largest size you'll generally see on today's laptops. Add a quad-core processor and 8GB of memory, and you've got the makings of a PC that might be able to handle all your everyday jobs and show you a film or two in the evening - not just a second PC to carry around. Switch it on, though, and the Satellite L50D-C-13G doesn't quite live up to expectations. That big screen is marketed under the name 'TruBrite', which frankly just confirms our worst suspicions about the people who come up with names to market things. 'Brite' it isn't: we measured 258 candelas per square metre. A candela is the official name for one candlepower, a homely unit reminiscent of 'horsepower'. It simply represents the brightness of one ordinary candle. A candle is not very bright. 258 candles spread over a square metre still wouldn't be very bright. In short, this laptop is not very bright. Frankly, whoever decided to call it 'TruBrite' is not very bright, because it's not true. The contrast isn't up to much, either, and the resolution is coarse.