Toshiba has added another notebook to its Satellite
range. The P25-S507 sports a 17-inch display with a resolution of
1440 pixels by 900 pixels.
The P25-S507 comes in a fixed configuration with a 2.8GHz
Pentium 4 processor with hyperthreading, 512Mbytes of double data
rate synchronous dynamic RAM, a 60Gbyte hard drive, a GeForce FX
Go5200 graphics card from Nvidia with 32Mbytes of DDR video memory,
a CD/DVD-R/RW drive, integrated 802.11a and 802.11b Wi-Fi, and
Microsoft Windows XP Home for around $2,099. It is immediately
available in the US through Toshiba America's website.
Apple was the first major notebook manufacturer to release a
PowerBook with a 17-inch display earlier this year. Acer's Aspire
1700 also comes with a 17-inch display.
The launch of Intel's Pentium M processor has allowed notebook
manufacturers to build lighter and smaller notebooks with better
performance and battery life. Consumers have also snapped up larger
notebooks that can be moved from room to room without much
hassle.
Intel just released the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 for these desktop
replacement notebooks, but Toshiba is sticking with a desktop
Pentium 4 processor in the P25-S507.
Mobile processors offer power management capabilities that
reduce heat dissipation, but desktop processors offer better
performance, and are often the choice of customers wanting
high-quality multimedia applications in a notebook.
Tom Krazit writes for IDG News
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