Toshiba Satellite P55t-A5202 Touch 1080p Laptop

Touchscreen laptops are not a new category, but only a few of them have full HD screen resolution on the top of that. The Toshiba Satellite P55t-A5202 is one of them. The laptop sports a 15.6-inch 1080p full HD LCD panel, displaying Windows 8 and apps with help of the 4th Gen Intel Core i5-4200U dual-core processor and its Intel HD 4400 integrated graphics.

Toshiba Satellite P55t-A5202

The recently released i5-4200U “Haswell” chip is accompanied by huge 8GB of DDR3 1,600MHz memory, a spacious 750GB hard drive, and a DVD burner, rounding off this very capable machine for day-to-day tasks and media creation and editing.

Add to these features its durable aluminum chassis with a backlit keyboard on it, and you get a machine that gets the job done, allows intuitive touch interaction and on-screen creativity, turn heads, and also lasts. Selection of networking and connectivity features is admirable, too. The Toshiba Satellite P55t-A5202 has Intel Wi-Di technology for wireless video output and Bluetooth 4.0, besides the standard 802.11n Wi-Fi and Gigabit LAN network connections, as well as HDMI output with 4K resolution support (almost 4 times 1080p), the classic VGA monitor port, four USBs, and a multi-format media card reader.

Toshiba says the battery life on this model lasts “up to four hours”.

A relatively low price of $780 for all the listed features makes the P55t-A5202 worthy of serious consideration. If you however want to save money and are sure you don’t want to use touchscreen input, you can take a look at the non-touch Satellite P55-A5200 with a 3rd Generation i5, 6GB of RAM and the same other parts for $650.

Toshiba Satellite P55t-A5202 Specifications

  • Display: 15.6-inch multitouch 1920-by-1080px (1080p HD) resolution
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-4200U “Haswell” dual-core ultra-low voltage at 1.6GHz-2.6GHz, 3MB L3 cache
  • Graphics: Intel HD 4400 integrated
  • Memory: 8GB DDR3 at 1,600MHz included, up to 8GB
  • Storage: 750GB HDD at 5,400 rpm
  • Optical drive: DVD burner
  • Webcam: 720p
  • Audio: harman/kardon-branded stereo speakers, DTS Studio Sound audio
  • Network: 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet LAN, Bluetooth 4.0, Intel Wireless Display
  • Input: Backlight chiclet keyboard with 10-key number pad, multi-touch trackpad
  • Ports and Slots: 2 x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x HDMI, 1 x VGA, multi-format card reader
  • Battery: 4-cell 43Whr Lithium-Ion, “maximal 4hrs” battery life
  • Dimensions: 1.2″ x 15″ x 9.9″
  • Weight: 5.4 pounds
  • OS: Windows 8
  • Warranty: 1-year

6 thoughts on “Toshiba Satellite P55t-A5202 Touch 1080p Laptop”

  1. How do you restart this laptop? Not shut it down, just restart. I’m trying to load Windows 10, but it asked me to restart. Thanks

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  2. I am not sure how to describe what happen and to tell you the part that I need but I will try. My laptop is fine, but its broken. The top that you lift up the hinge on the right side is broken. I can still use the lap top but I have to hold that piece in on the right side in order to open the top. I took to the shop and I was told that the entire case could be order and be replaced. It just appears that a screw popped out and on the upper right corner there appeared to be a screw holding it close, so what I need to know where can I order the what I am going to call the casing to put my key board in.

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  3. can we install ssd drive, does it support trim, is there a slot for 2nd hdd, can we use dvd rom as second hdd.

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  4. I spilled beer on my toshiba satelite P55t- A5202 keyboard. Dried it out as well as possible. It is upsidedown with a fan blowing on it. My keypad appears stuck with a forward slash populating my password box. Any ideas?

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    • Is the password box you’re referring to the one for logging in to Windows so you can’t log in at all? If you can’t log in Windows, then only what you can do is to fix the key physically somehow or disconnect the keyboard from the motherboard (don’t know if it voids warranty), attach a USB keyboard and install some keyboard mapping software. Using a mapping program such as KeyMapper, you can disable the “/” key on your number pad and use for typing the “?/” key on the standard “typewriter” keyboard. That’s the only idea I have…
      P.S. If you can enter BIOS of your laptop and if it has an option to disable the built-in keyboard (but I think it’s not likely), you can do that instead of disconnecting it.

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