On the Toshiba site most reviews were positive, we've choosen three examples:

Overall rating: 2.0 out of 5

It is too heavy to carry around very long. No word processor included, or at least have not been able to find it yet! Use instructions are sketchy at best. Difficult to find battery level and memory remaining. More difficult for older users to get used to. Needs to be much more user friendly!"" so so January 28, 2010

Overall rating: 3.0 out of 5

"I WAS TOLD BY THE SALESPERSON THAT THE AMD PROCESSOR WAS FAST, BUT IT IS NOT ANY FASTER THAT THE OLD CELERON PROCESSOR THAT I HAD ON LAST LAPTOP, WHICH WAS A TOSHIBA. I HAVE LARGE HANDS AND THE KEYBOARD LAY-OUT IS NOT FRIENDLY TO ME. SOMETIMES WHEN I'M TYPING THE CURSER JUMPS TO ANOTHER LOCATION AND I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT CAUSES IT TO DO THAT.

Overall rating: 5.0 out of 5

AMD Turion II Dual Core processor is plenty fast, as good as Intel Pent. Dual Core, so speedy this one is. Great machine with enough features to replace this for my desktop system. Excellent physical design, the piano black will finger print easily, but oh so pretty. Wipe it down, some complain about the slippery keys, they do take some getting used to, but I use an elevated laptop base with built in fan so hand posture is a necessity for heavy typing on any laptop. This laptop runs much cooler than the Acer I replaced this with. At 17" and setting the screen/font size to 125% this is as good of a view as a desktop for sure. I am very pleased, and the speakers have very decent volume, I compared this to an HP / MS I /ASUS / DELL, for price, featues, build quality you cannot go wrong. Yes the AMD versions are about $100 less than Intel, but that has been forever, AMD is speedy, runs PhotoShop very well.

If you are in the market for an AMD based notebook with a big screen, decent performance and a good price, the Toshiba Satellite L555D-S7930 might be right for you. The CPU is an AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile Processor M500 and the IPGP an ATI Radeon 4100.

Benchmarks:

iTunes MP3 to AAC, Battery Life, Movie Encoding.

3DMark Vantage was not tested on this notebook since it is not a gaming rig.

Conclusion:

This notebook isn't a multimedia machine, nor a high-powered workstation, nor a gaming rig. It is a moderately capable general use computer with a big screen for a ow price.

The GPU is not powerful enough to decode HD video, there was a stuttering issue,the reviewers gave it an overall rating of 87%.

Compared to:

• Acer Aspire: 5738DG-6165, 5738PG-6306, One D520-1165, Timeline 4810T & Ferari One,
• AVADirect: Clevo X8100,
• Gateway: EC14D07u, NV4214u, NV7901u,
• Viewsonic: ViewBook Pro, VNB141.