“Toshiba is offering a much wider view with its newest Satellite notebook PC. The company on Tuesday launched a new Satellite P25 with a 17-inch, wide-angle display, the largest screen it has offered to date,” reports John G. Spooner for CNET News.com.
“The P25, which will start at $2,099, is the first Windows notebook from a brand-name manufacturer to come with a 17-inch wide-angle display. Apple Computer was first to reach the 17-inch mark earlier this year with its big-screen PowerBook,” Spooner reports. “Along with its larger display, the notebook includes a DVD burner and a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 processor with hyperthreading technology. It also sports 512MB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive, an Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 graphics card and built-in 802.11b wireless networking.”
“The Satellite’s 17-inch panel offers a maximum resolution of 1,440 by 900 pixels, Toshiba said. The Satellite P25 measures 16.4 inches high by 11.5 inches wide and 1.8 inches thick, making it the largest notebook in Toshiba’s inventory. It’s also the heaviest, weighing in at 9.9 pounds–3.1 pounds more than Apple’s 17-inch PowerBook, though it costs $1,200 less,” Spooner reports.
Full article here.
The toshiba website doesn’t show any close up photos of the notebook. It looks really ugly, It’s got a tapered bottom for some reason.
Picture here:
I was wondering about the weight since almost all the other PC Mags that previewed it, excluded that particular detail. 9.9 lbs, they are kidding right? How can they compare it with a straight face to the Powerbook! I wouldn’t buy a 10lb notebook period. Jokers.
The chunky look reminds me of my first Powerbook, a 145B, big and heavy.
This baby even has a Parallel port on the back! When will Wintel kick these types of ports, they are archaic.
Could they put any more buttons on it??????
And at that weight, it’d kick a$$ for bicep reps….
Jesus. 10 lbs? Too heavy.
Looks like a fast food tray!
“Satellite”, huh? And it weighs as much as one of Saturn’s moons, too. Nice try, but there’s no way I would want to lug that thing around, no matter how much it costs…
My rule of thumb for portability has always been that it must weigh less than an unloaded Garand M-1 rifle (9.5 lbs) because I know from experience how heavy the rifle was carrying it any distance. So this new “portable” fails the M-1 test.
that thing is an ugly piece of crap. it looks like a toolbox on steroids
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NOBODY can build hardware or software like APPLE when will these PC people EVER LEARN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-O
Is that a George Forman Grill?
Don’t drop that thing, it might hurt somebody.
It only shows you how far behind technology wise the Wintel manufacturers have become. Lesson to be learned, monopolies choke innovation. Apple is every geeks friend right now. Thank you Steve for investing so much in R&D and ignoring the critics…
Screw speed comparisons, let’s talk weight comparisons.
1 gallon of water weighs 8 lbs. Imagine going from meeting to meeting with a gallon and a quart of milk?
Olympic Shot (Put) – 16 lbs
Largest Vermont Largemouth Bass – 10 lbs 4 oz
Toshiba P25 – 9.9 lbs
A jack Russell Terrier – 9 to 15 lbs (“Eddy” on the tv series “Frazier”)
Apple Powerbook – 6.8 lbs
People say that the 17″ desktop iMac was fairly hefty as they lifted it out of the box by its “neck”. According to http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html, the iMac weighs 22.8 lbs. I can’t image 2 portable computers equaling 1 iMac.
Imagine waiting in line at a crowded airport with your friend, and he gets the idea to go get a latt�, and asks you to hold his Toshiba P25 along with your own. Could you imagine waiting in line holding your iMac? That’s not very portable!!
Someone hit a Powerbook with an ugly stick, and look what came out the other end.
How funny is this? I hope this is really the 17in laptops PC makers are going to come out with, because if anything makes the Powerbook look even better, it’s this poor excuse for competition. Mind you, looking at the rest of the plasticised nasty-looking Toshiba range, this is what you’d expect them to come up with. Only when Sony brings out their version will Apple have anything to worry about.
Energy won’t last for more than 1hr… As usual… But why this “Powerbook killer” title? To “Kill” it has to be better (or root
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Arghh! Looks like an old CBM computer…
Peter, 4.5 kg (9.5 lb) for a rifle is not that much to carry for ANY distance or time. Most modern mil forces use weapons around the 4-5 kg range, which is damn light. Try it with a 7/16kg LSW/SFMG, then you can comment.
Excuse the diversion from the topic.
Why do comparisons omit information. They compare beauty to a beast. 11Mb wireless to 54Mb. Is BlueTooth built-in as it is with the PB? Does it have a backlit keyboard?
I have done a few sessions with our new 17″PB and it really gets the woo factor. Everyone loves it, though not many people say that they would buy a laptop ‘that big’.
Bring on the NEW 15.4″ alloy PLEASE!
boy……
I can’t say enough about CNET’s reporting…..it’s SOOOOO balanced…….
not.
and, Toshiba’s laptop DOES look like the forman grill……..
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let us re-live the Mac Portable days……….. ahhhhhhh.
Thanks Toshiba, thanks….. Memories.
You know something …
I HATE Toshiba. Just because it is Jap, dont mean it aint CRAP. I have a Toshiba cordless phone and it aint no Honda, it does not charge unless you “wiggle it” in the cradle. It does not record messages (digital answering machine) without garbling them beyond comprehension. The battery in the phone lasts about 1 hour tops. Leave it off the charger overnight and it is DEAD.
I can forgive 1 or 2 of the above problems, but the fact that Toshiba refused to admit there is a problem, and refused to service said BAD EQUIPMENT. It says alot about their company.
Heads up Toshiba, this is the year 2003 and as such, just 1, JUST ONE, 1!, customer (ME!) who has been treated like crap by you now has a soundstage with which to educate others as to the CRAP that are your products.
Kudos 2 u. I never never ever thought that i would say this but my GENERAL ELECTRIC cordless phone MADE IN THE USA is superior in EVERY WAY to your peice of shit.
To think that I would buy a laptop from you is just laughable. Apple is the only way to go. USA baby. Its not just a bullshit slogan anymore.