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From the house of Toshiba comes another laptop that is a great bargain with a name that will test your memory. The Toshiba E105-S1602 (secret rocket launch code anyone?) is as good a bargain as its previous version that was offered around last year and this year it has an added goodie that makes it an even better deal – reduced pricing. With recession hitting the world hard, that is the one thing that can ensure that your laptop will sell. It also adds other benefits to the laptop, making it one great package for the price.

The E105-S1602 costs around $800 and for that price you are getting a large dose of performance with every thing you would expect at this price point. Everything except discrete graphics that is, which is missing in this laptop.

Continuing its success story from last year, this year sees Toshiba bringing back this popular laptop with only minor changes. But these small changes make a big difference. Compared to the price last year, this laptop costs you $300 less. For that amount, you only give up a bit of CPU power. Other than that you are actually getting more storage and a longer warranty period of two years.

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Prices of electronic gadgets are falling left and right. Laptops are more affordable than ever but that’s only because the average spending power has also gone south. Nonetheless, people still need laptops to get their work done on the move and hence laptops will keep on selling.

If you are looking for a laptop under $500 now, you are likely to find a lot of netbooks and good ones at that too. However, if you filter out the netbooks you will see that there are a myriad of entry-level laptops vying for your attention. It is amongst this collection that you will find the Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5965. No, I don’t know either why they have such cryptic alphanumeric codes as their names.

The laptop has features that are sure to make you look… somewhere else. But its punch line is in the price tag. At $450, you might mistake it for a netbook if you don’t look closely at the specifications.

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