Toshiba Satellite P770

Toshiba Satellite P770 review

The 17.3-inch Toshiba Satellite P770 certainly won't win the 'most fashionable laptop' award, but you may still be able to impress other geeks with its decent performance and ability to handle gaming.Our model, the P770-109, packs a 2.3GHz, dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, and 6GB of RAM. It will set you back around £730.The P770 looks like a fairly unassuming piece of kit, wrapped entirely in black plastic. If bright colours and fancy swirls are your thing, move along -- this guy is as colourful as a lump of charcoal. The lid has a weird texture to it -- we think it's meant to be a wood-grain effect, but we're not sure. It's not totally horrible, though, and it makes an otherwise incredibly boring-looking laptop slightly more interesting. The P770 certainly isn't pretty but it looks just about smart enough for a boardroom. It's definitely more suited to being slid out of a briefcase than a colourful tote bag. The shell isn't the sturdiest we've ever encountered. We held it in our arms -- like a baby -- and thoroughly poked it all over -- not like a baby -- and found a fair amount of flex in the lid and keyboard. The P770 seems to be made from cheap materials. We wouldn't trust it to survive for long on a rough-and-tumble road trip.