I have one. At this price it's a bargain.

The screen is really nice, and watching Netflix in bed is a good experience - the headphone socket produces good clear sound.

The tablet has a microUSB port which also works in host mode, this is used to charge it. It has a microHDMI for connecting to a TV. It's only got 32GB of flash storage, but you can fit a large (I have a 64GB card) microSDHC card to give it some elbow room, and the card fits very nearly flush. It's got bluetooth, front and rear cameras, 802.11b/g/n wifi.

Battery life is great because there's a battery in the keyboard dock. The dock also has a full sized USB socket and a full sized SDHC card slot.

It runs Windows 10 fairly well, but the Silvermont Atom Z3735F CPU is a little anaemic, so you wouldn't want to be doing anything too stressful.


Oh, and for linux fans, it sort of runs linux OK - needs a custom kernel and a wifi driver installing, and then you have a basic laptop with touchscreen, keyboard, touchpad, wifi. Things that don't work: cameras, bluetooth, sound. So avoid it as a linux device unless you're willing to live with severe compromises, and put in some effort. PM me if you're interested.

Just bought one! Specs are amazing for this price, especially the screen quality along with the 300 bonus nectar points on ebay.

This has more pixels than my 15 inch laptop, damnnn

Isn't the battery likely to be on its last legs tho?

is this any good for the money

Some scathing reviews on Amazon. Like everything else, you pays your money and takes your chances.

Bought - been looking for a titchy laptop for my 2 hour train journeys and this has good source for the price. Let's see if it comes battered or with a crapped out battery :neutral_face:

just went for the transformer Asus deal although I'm still in the fence about what it can actually do! anyways it's a little more but better processor, bigger screen, double the size hard drive and brand new, supposively with a great battery... worth looking at

up to 12 hours battery life :O

I used to think of Toshiba as a quality brand. Unfortunately my last two purchases were more Tosh than Toshiba, so I would look very carefully at those bad reviews. And there are a lot of them!

These go for about £80 including postage on ebay, so not too bad.

The screen resolution is very tempting but with so many bad reviews, I'll give it a miss.
A lot of user complaints are about battery life so you can be fairly sure that these refurbs will be returns for that reason.

As with all Windows tablets, switching off fast boot will lengthen standby battery life and switching off automatic updates for store apps will speed up general use.

I have one. At this price it's a bargain.

The screen is really nice, and watching Netflix in bed is a good experience - the headphone socket produces good clear sound.

The tablet has a microUSB port which also works in host mode, this is used to charge it. It has a microHDMI for connecting to a TV. It's only got 32GB of flash storage, but you can fit a large (I have a 64GB card) microSDHC card to give it some elbow room, and the card fits very nearly flush. It's got bluetooth, front and rear cameras, 802.11b/g/n wifi.

Battery life is great because there's a battery in the keyboard dock. The dock also has a full sized USB socket and a full sized SDHC card slot.

It runs Windows 10 fairly well, but the Silvermont Atom Z3735F CPU is a little anaemic, so you wouldn't want to be doing anything too stressful.


Oh, and for linux fans, it sort of runs linux OK - needs a custom kernel and a wifi driver installing, and then you have a basic laptop with touchscreen, keyboard, touchpad, wifi. Things that don't work: cameras, bluetooth, sound. So avoid it as a linux device unless you're willing to live with severe compromises, and put in some effort. PM me if you're interested.

Hmm Toshiba..and refurbished. Two words that don't seem to inspire confidence to say the least lol.

Been thinking about getting a cheap W10 device for a while, so decided to give this one a go.

good job it's got 2 batteries then...

grrrrrrrrr!!!

Try this in local JL store, the screen is a bit small (8.9" only) compare to other 10" tablet, so you will tend to just use it as tablet rather than laptop because the tiny font when browsing.

I've been watching this model on ebay for a while, £70 -90 seems to be the regular auctions wins, so this is a good price to include 12months warranty (and when new it only has a 1yr Toshiba warranty).

I've read on one forum that the usb is 2.0 by default but there is a bios setting to make it 3.0 -- have you found that to be true?

And, have you tried RemixOS?

I would like to know, too. Trying to install Remix OS on the Miix 3 killed it, so I think some of these Windows tablets are a little bit too sensitive.

What made you decide it's worth the extra 45quid? I'm thinking about getting one but know nothing about today's laptops since I've only had android tablets for years now. Currently use lenovo tab 2.

Tempted, at this price it's pretty compelling, especially with that screen. Obviously it's more a tablet than a laptop, it'll struggle with anything more than light use, but nice to have a tablet that's cheap enough you don't care if it breaks :-)

I had an old 7 inch tablet on windows and the screen was too small for windows to be honest so the bigger the better.already have a 10 inch Asus on Android and it looks great. 32gb isn't much on windows too, you'll use up half of that with just the windows files so you won't be left with much. Don't know enough about processor speeds but if you can get more at this range I would! Also it has an hdmi port which would be handy for using it on a TV. Depends what you need though

Can the HDD and ram be upgraded on this. I would put a ssd and double the ram if possible.

If he meant the T100 Chi then I think it's worth it too. It has the fastest Atom, 64GB internal storage (which is a massive bonus) and awesome build quality from it's stiff, slim metal chassis which I think is reason alone to separate it out from the cheaper tablets, it just feels as if it'll last longer.

no, flash and soldered. but those reviews that are good, like the fact that you can use 2 memory cards to beef up storage, micro on the tablet, and full size on that extra battery keyboard dock.

Mine arrived today. Would not connect to wifi and had some sort of screen burn issue. Natty little machine otherwise although this one is going straight back.

I just had a BSOD with CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT. This points to a CPU error, possibly caused by overheating, but it could have other reasons, too. Anybody else with the same problem?

Otherwise it seems fine. The battery is a bit fiddly, the keyboard a bit weak, CPU and eMMC speed are moderate, the screen frame is excessive, but overall it seems like a nice package, especially for the price.

My replacement arrived today - internet working - seems to charge up OK. No problems with screen - looks pretty brand new tbh. Much better than the previous one. Keyboard is tiny and a bit bouncy but you can do plenty with the touch screen. I'm pleased so far.

Just installed windows 10 on mine. Much better experience now. SO much faster and more intuitive.

I'm totally loving mine :smiley:. Great screen; totally usable keyboard; powerful enough for usual daily tasks. Upgraded it immediately to W10, before promptly breaking it when trying to make sure I had the latest Toshiba drivers. Thankfully a Windows reset sorted everything, and it actually came back up "better" with something working that wasn't before I broke it. Only small issue I have is that whilst it holds the headline wifi connection fine, occasionally it'll lose connectivity, typically when it's been in standby.

What sort of batttery life are you guys getting while browsing, watching youtbe etc..? I've found refurbished stuff to be hit or miss on how degraded the batteries are.