Re: Toshiba Satellite 320 specs
- From: Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 05:16:09 GMT
I am extremely familiar with this model (Toshiba Satellite 320 series), I have made a small part time business out of refurbishing this vintage of Toshibas and reselling them at hamfests.
The 300 to 335's were made with both dual-scan screens (CDS suffix) and much more desireable TFT active matrix screens (CDT suffix). The processors are Pentium [one] MMX's, as follows:
300/305 - 166MHz (std config was 16MB ram, 2 gig drive)
310/315 - 200MHz (std config was 32MB ram, 2 gig drive)
320/325 - 233MHz (std config was 32MB ram, 4 gig drive)
330/335 - 266MHz (std config was 32MB ram, 4 gig drive)
The standard memory is on the motherboard. All models also have an SO-DIMM slot for additonal memory under the keyboard (to get to it, remove the snap-in trim strip above the keyboard, starting on the right side of the machine). These take EDO memory, it's available in 16, 32, 64 and 128 meg modules (which would be in addition to the standard memory), however the 128 meg modules are hard to find and VERY expensive. They use the "PA2487" series battery (or the identical but higher capacity "PA3107" series), which is a superb lithium battery (probably the most common Toshiba battery ever made, it was in continuous use in hundreds of models of laptops from at least 1995 (if not earlier) to at least 2003 (if not later).
These are truly great older machines. You can sometimes get them for as little as $20 (not commonly, but sometimes) and the 320 and 330 are actually powerful enough to run windows XP with 96 or 160 megs of memory, but these are reasonable machines for office applications and word processing in Windows 98 with as little as 48 megs of memory installed. As older machines go, they are highly desireable.
The only upgrades possible are memory and disk, but that's usually enough, the machines have pretty much everything else standard. They have more port flexibility than even modern machines (they have serial, parallel, PS/2, VGA, Infrared, USB and dual PC Card slots that support Cardbus cards, plus built-in, no-swapping floppy and CD-ROM, and a stereo sound system).
Interestingly, the 300 series came after the 400 series and is far superior. It was superseeded directly by the early 4000 series (4000 to 4025), which are actually the exact same machines but with Pentium II's and SDRAM memory instead of Pentium MMX's and EDO memory.
The real gem of the 300 and early 4000 series is the 4020/4025 (only made as a CDT). It's a 300MHz Pentium II with SDRAM and an active matrix XGA (1024x768) screen. Sometimes you can even find these "cheap" (as low as $30's), and they can run XP surprisingly well.
All Toshiba models ending in "5" are the same as the corresponding model ending in "0" except for the software that was initially loaded onto the hard drive. That is, electrically, a 330CDT is identical to a 335CDT, etc. That continues even to this day (e.g. a current production A100 is the same hardware as an A105).
Tarot wrote:
Hi. Recently an old Toshiba s320 has fallen into my hands and while.
it's working passably, I'd love to upgrade it (specifically its
memory) but I can't find its specs online so I don't know what I can,
and can't, use with it.
If anyone could enlighten me, I'd be ever so grateful.
Thanks,
Tarot
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