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Toshiba's Portégé notebooks tend to pretty conservative design-wise — the Portégé R830 is a case in point, the chassis barely differing from its R700 predecessor. The Satellite range, by contrast, has to appeal to both consumers and professionals — hence the Satellite and Satellite Pro split — and can be a bit more adventurous.
The C850, for example, has both Satellite and Satellite Pro incarnations and there's a little more panache in its appearance than business users might be used to. There's also a wide array of specifications and prices — we counted eight Satellite and six Satellite Pro variants at Toshiba's UK web site. The Satellite Pro C850 starts at £289 (ex. VAT), but our review sample was the top-end £459 (ex. VAT) 10N model.
Design
The Toshiba Satellite Pro C850-10N has a 15.6in. LED-backlit screen with a resolution of 1,366 by 768 pixels. The screen is wide enough to comfortably accommodate two application windows side-by side — in fact, pushing our Word document into as small a space as possible left ample room for a wide web page display.
The screen has a matte finish, so it can be used in a wide range of lighting situations. Viewing angles are fine on the horizontal plane, but less good on the vertical. You can push the screen down to around 145 degrees, so there's plenty of flexibility, but at this angle text can look decidedly fuzzy and images lose their integrity.
We could have done with a bit more punch from the LED backlight. And given the relatively low price of even the most expensive model in the range, we wonder whether Toshiba might have splashed out on a higher-resolution screen for some of the models.
The Satellite Pro C850-10N measures a generous 38cm wide, 24.2cm deep and 3.35cm thick. It isn't light, either, with a starting weight of 2.3kg.
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