The Toshiba Mini in Details
As with previous Toshiba netbooks, this mini comes in black colour. The chassis is in black. Prices range from 500,000 to 400,000 shillings, with the cheapest model incorporating a smaller four-hour battery whilst the others have more than twice the endurance, being rated at nine hours.

You don’t buy a netbook for its performance, although this area has improved since the format’s inception. The Toshiba mini comes with the  Intel  . This is the most recent Cedar view generation, which is a dual-core model with Intel Hyper-Threading, so each physical core presents itself as two virtual ones for improved multi-threaded performance. But there’s no Turbo Boost available to give individual cores extra clock cycles when required.

One area where the best netbooks do punch above their weight is general usability, and Toshiba’s  is top of the heap in this respect. The keyboard is well proportioned, with a clearly defined action. It’s not significantly smaller than the keyboard on a regular notebook, and extremely comfortable for extended periods of typing. The touch pad is a little small, as usual for most netbooks, but it’s responsive enough, with decently sized buttons that overlap the front edge of the notebook.

However, the screen hits the usual problem with the netbook format, namely lack of vertical resolution. The 10.1in Tru Brite display only offers great pixels, which can cause problems with some software dialogs and web pages that are designed for a minimum of 800 pixels vertically. It’s also a little shiny, although not as reflective as some. The brightness and decent contrast mean viewing angles are still reasonable. There’s a webcam at the top for videoconferencing, but it only offers VGA resolution.
The Toshiba Mini is pretty well endowed for ports, though. The USB ports are 2.0 standard only, rather than the faster 3.0 variety, but there are three of them, one on the left and two on the right. The right-hand side is also home to a full-sized HDMI port and VGA, plus a LAN port, although this is only Fast Ethernet, not Gigabit. There’s also a combo headphone and microphone jack on this side.