An affordable, well-equipped desktop computer alternative
Offers budget-wise performance and style
17.3" widescreen designed for spacious viewing and multitasking
Starts at $499.00
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Some models include
Smoother Typing and Numerical Entry
Write your e-mails and term papers with ease. Use your laptop's calculator. Or input numbers for your family budget without a second look. The attractive, full-size silver keyboard and 10-key pad on this laptop makes it easy.
Excellent Connectivity
Connect, shop online, chat, plus share pictures with onboard Wi-Fi® at any wireless hotspot. Use the built-in Webcam and microphone to talk face-to-face with friends and family, join a study group, or to videoconference. Toshiba keeps you in touch.
Eco-Smart Engineering
Toshiba laptops are built using eco-conscious practices, materials and packaging. But the Satellite® L550 Series also offers energy-efficient LED backlit displays, and Toshiba's power-saving eco utility™, which lets you fine-tune your laptop and mind the environment even more.
Get the best entertainment experience with Microsoft's latest operating system. Windows® 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music.
Performance-Ready
With the latest dual-core processors from Intel® plus blazing-fast 1066MHz DDR3 memory on select models, the Satellite® L500 laptop is ready for almost any task you can throw at it.
Spacious Hard Drives
Get all the room you need to hold your personal, work and school files, along with your growing video, music and photo collection - up to 500GB on select models. That's half a terabyte!
Toshiba Bulletin Board™
Quickly manage your important tasks with to-do lists, calendars and more-with your own personalized space on your desktop.
Toshiba ReelTime™
Now get to your files faster, thanks to this new, free, exclusive Toshiba app, which shows you a visual timeline of your recently accessed files using graphical thumbnails.
Premium Designs Available
Show off your style with our premium Fusion™ Finish in Steel Grey Metallic or optional Precious Black. Both designs come complete with a built-in webcam - so you can stay connected, too!
works great with
Toshiba Primary High Capacity Li Ion Battery Pack (12-Cell)
A little extra power really comes in handy when you're working or having fun on the go. So make sure you always carry one of these.
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Toshiba dynadock™ U Universal Docking Station
Now use a single USB cable to plug into your networks, or full-size equipment like a monitor, keyboard and more - in a snap.
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Toshiba Metropolitan Carrying Case (fits up to 18.4" laptops)
This protective case is specially designed for larger laptops like your Satellite® L550, and comes with lots of space to hold accessories and other stuff.
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Additional Features
USB Sleep-and-Charge
Power your smart phone and other portables - even when your laptop is off.
HDMI Connection
Scale up your entertainment on a home theater for full 1080p video and 7.1 surround sound as well.
Touchpad with Multitouch Control
Swipe, rotate, push, scroll or zoom in on the display screen with a simple brush of your fingers.
Optional LED Backlit Keyboard
Enjoy your laptop in almost any light when you customize it with a convenient backlit keyboard.
Get things done on the run with advanced energy-efficiency, designed so you can go longer on a single battery charge.
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Scale up your gaming, movies and music on a home theater - with full 1080p high-definition video, and amazingly immersive surround sound.
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It's your ticket to brilliant HD movies on the go or splashed across a home theater with your laptop's advanced A/V connections.
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Solid state drives offer lightning-fast access times and greater data reliability.
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Built-in webcams and microphones let you chat face-to-face, collaborate with classmates, videoconference, and generally improve the way you interact with the world around you.
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These sophisticated new drives not only simplify playing your music and movies, but they also work great in cramped quarters, and add to the clean, streamlined looks of your laptop.
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When the room's dim or the lights go down, you can keep right on typing thanks to these energy efficient keyboards.
Experience a more convenient way to communicate, log on or share your laptop among the family.
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Synch your smart phone and other portables, or expand your laptop entertainment potential with external speakers, headphones and more... all without cords.
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Tap into a home theater system to take advantage of big multi-speaker sound.
These notebooks transform into a "tablet" with a digital pen for sketching ideas, calculating math problems, marking up documents, or tapping open files.
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High-speed 7200RPM SATA hard drives give you quicker access to your files and multimedia, so you'll spend less time waiting and more time enjoying.
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Transfer files easily from our your digital camera, camcorder, MP3 player or smart phone, sharing home movies and playlists with SD cards, Memory Sticks and more.
Experience faster data transfers when using an external hard drive. It's the ideal solution for smarter back-ups, or storing your growing media collection.
Download, email and access the Internet - far from mobile hotspots - using your carrier's wireless broadband network.
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Gain access to wireless metropolitan area networks at broadband speeds.
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Used with remote management software, Active Management Technology on Intel® vPro™-equipped Toshiba laptops lets you remotely configure, diagnose, isolate, and repair infected PCs—even if they're off.
harman kardon stereo speakers bring an added dimension to music, movies and gaming with rich, immersive audio. Enjoy deeper, richer lows, crisper highs, and more lifelike conversations.
Safeguard your data by 'parking' the hard drive heads in the event of a drop or sudden movement.
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Stay more agile, productive and competitive with Toshiba's exclusive EasyGuard® Technology which offers greater mobile reliability, security and convenience.
Quickly adjust the settings and power plan of your laptop and monitor your ongoing power usage with just a click.
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Engineered with respect to our planet, 93% of Toshiba laptops, netbooks and Tablet PCs have met the ENERGY STAR 4.0 standard since it was established in 2007.
Designed for those who work with highly sensitive information, smart card readers are a sophisticated way to limit PC access using highly advanced security token encoding.
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EPEAT™ Gold is the highest possible ranking of the acclaimed Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool which measures products across 51 different dimensions.
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This unique transreflective widescreen LED-backlit display lets you work effectively in the office―or even out in direct sunlight. It also produces rich color in most any lighting condition.
Plug right in and get access to the Web or other networks to work, communicate and enjoy yourself.
Dedicated graphics enliven and enhance the way you view movies, photos and games, all without robbing the performance you need to get other things done.
Toshiba's PC Health Monitor alerts you to issues before they become problems, constantly gauging your machine's temperature and power usage, while checking the hard drive to help protect against shocks.
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Zoom in with a two-finger pinch, move files with a one-finger drag-and-drop, and do many other things with greater ease.
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Plug in an LCD monitor and enjoy a higher resolution viewing experience.
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Get an adapter that supports Intel Wireless Display and wirelessly project multimedia to your HDTV with great image clarity and sound.
