Review Toshiba Tecra W50-A-104 Workstation

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Newcomer. Toshiba gets into the market of mobile workstations and offers a very well-equipped device with the Tecra W50-A-104. Does the well-known competition has to be afraid? We will find out in our review.

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I like the short space bar.  I touch type and frequently use an alt-key with with my thumb while my fingers are over the home keys.  I like it when the left-alt key overlaps the 'C' key.  This short space-bar puts the right alt-key in the same relative position for the right thumb.  (When the alt key is one position further away from the center, I find it becomes painful to use frequently.)

I agree that the small arrow keys are not as good as a full size set.  They are far away from the home keys and not easy to hit accurately (Fitts' Law), even when pivoting the right hand on the base of the palm.  Personally, I would sacrifice the large '0' key in trade to get full size arrow keys.

(Now only if phones and calculators/computers would offer the same digit key order as a software option...)

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I wonder if there is a more specific model id than TOS508F for this 15.6 inch FHD display.   The WT310 review gives the same id TOS508F for the 11.6 inch FHD display.

Nice positive review.

[luc d]

I bought this computer. After one year of use, the lid is slotted above the hinge. Poor quality plastic and too much stress on the hinge. Toshiba refuses to take charge despite a 3 years on site warranty extension.

[Mark D]

I just picked up 2 of these baby's off lease, refurbished and upgraded for $400 Canadian a piece.  I scored big time with such a steal of a deal.  They were barely used by a local police force and are in immaculate, like new, Excellent condition.  One them is my main laptop, the other will by my back up laptop just in case.  They were upgraded with 446 GB Intel SSD drives and 32 GB RAM each.  I also got 2 brand new Toshiba High Speed Port Replicator III's and 2 brand new AC power adaptors included.  Win 11 Pro was installed along with MS Office and Antivirus.  These machines are high quality, fast, powerful and built to last.  This is as close as you can get to "future proof" a laptop so it won't need upgrades and won't get outdated by newer Windows OS, apps and advancements in computing technology.  The only minor "complaint" I have about them which I experience on a daily basis are the smaller arrow keys which I use to scroll down web pages and it also would have been nicer if some of the keyboard keys like delete, @, apostrophe, comma, period and ? were also illuminated on the backlit keyboard.  If the above two items were resolved then I would consider the Tecra W50-A to be the perfect laptop machine.  Nevertheless, I'm extremely happy with my acquisition and would highly recommend them to others considering them.  In my humble opinion Toshiba builds the highest quality, premium, corporate/business grade laptops available that are built to last.  A close second would be the Fujitsu Celsius.  From my research, tied for 3rd place would be Lenovo Thinkpads and HP Elitebooks.  Good luck to everyone with their next laptop purchase.