New Toshiba laptop is out

wowweee thats one hell of a gaming laptop.

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But this model is not offered with a 9600 correct?

It even ships with Media Center...and the TV Tuner is in the "Style Bay". I have been wating for this laptop, although I have to admit I wish they would release a different version, maybe without the TV Tuner and XP Pro instead. This would lower that price by a few hundred dollars, no doubt. Oh well.

I really do not think that Toshiba has anything on the current model (let alone the upcoming models) as it is really half the machine. I currently own a toshiba and not only does their tech support really suck, the nvidia cards do too. They had drivers out for a couple of weeks that were supposed improve performance...when what they really did was just add to performance problems. I am sure the screen looks nice but look at it....64mb of video at 4x agp??? Sorry I think I will hop on the sager machines just as the new ones are released. Anyone looking for a desktop replacement (as I was when I bought mine will be disapointed. I am looking forward to sager news....

What about the 17" screens...

Not sure where I got this, but I pasted it into my laptop research document. Anyone know if Toshiba still plans the release of this laptop this month?

SOURCES TELL us that Toshiba will be fast off the mark in mid-June with some machines intended as desktop replacements. The models, the P25-S507 and S607 will use desktop Pentium 4 microprocessors supporting hyperthreading. They will also include a 17-inch wide screen, and both will include DVD-R/RW. But the S607 will also include Windows XP Media Center Edition, it appears. No prices are available as yet, but the machines are likely to be fitted with Pentium 4 2.8GHz microprocessors.

The only cool feature would be the UXGA CASV display, but even that one is not a widescreen.

For the rest: max 1 gig ram, 2.4 GHz P-4 M

Why does this thing cost $2700 ???????????

looks like a very nice laptop. I added on a 3 year extended warranty with an accidental damage protection plan and it comes out total with tax and shipping to about 3200 dollars.


Honestly, and anybody can argue or disagree when it comes to Nvidia and ATI video cards. I really believe that they are both very comparable in terms of power but seem to accel in different areas. I have read alot of the reviews and it seems to be that ATI generally has more raw power then an Nvidia based video cards, but that during certain tests Nvidia would outperform ATI . I guess alot of factors come down to it, but I think they are both producing quality products with the exception of driver manipulation by Nvidia to show higher benchmarks. That was pretty silly in my opinion for them to do that, since it's not like somebody wasn't going to find out eventually.

Check out some of the latest tech news sources or hardocp.com on the latest of NVidia vs. Futuremark. What's behind this new PR is what I'm wonderining

i used to swear by toshiba, now i swear at them...
wasn't it a 5200 that was the subject of the last class action against them?

I agree, $2700 bucks for a P4 2.4 is waaaay off.


Cheers.

I'd be interested to see what it scores on 3dMarks 2001 and 2003.

Im not jumping on Nvidia's bandwagon because they release a good mobile card. You have to admit, it is a pretty good card. Probably the best at the moment for right now. We'll have to see it compared to the 9600

Toshiba 5205-S705

OMG

Ok I can see that this may not be the perfect model for a hard core gamer, but it is definetely in the running for the best to date. I have been waiting for a while to pick up a new notebook, *my old Sager NP 3360 is a bit over the hill, and right now I'm very tempted to order this one. For those people who have made comments on the price WTF... It may only have 64 Megs of video ram and 512 Megs of system ram but it still has the fastest graphics capabilities on the market ( it will own the Ati 9000 with 128 and the jury is still out on it's competition with the 9600, which we are still not sure when it wll be around) and lets not forget that it has the best screen on the market, a very nice speaker setup, and a multi format 4x DVD burner. I'm still not sure if I'm going to wait a bit more and see what sager shows us or grab this thing while it's hot, but it is definetely a nice system and well priced.

On a side note what does everyone think about the new Dell D800? It's got a great 15.4 wide angle wide aspect UXGA screen a geforce 4 4200go and a 1.7Ghz Pentium M (same as a P-4 2.53). It looks like a great gaming system with awesome battery life, the only downfall being the 1 month wait.

My friend has a D800... its real nice. Quite big for a centrino laptop but still moderate size. I'm real tempted to get one now. It would help my decision if I knew how much the 5680 is going to cost (8890 just too big). With the awesome new components I'm afraid it will be above my budget. How much do Sagers usually cost when they first come out?

Pyrosburn,

I would be interested in any Benchmark figures you could pursuade your friend to provide .. I know several of us here are currently jugling the D800 into the mix... how about battery life? Any other particular comments you would like to make about it?

Thanks,

Rinner

um check out this review I find it quite decent...

Click Here

Yes... you read that right, almost 10k on 3dmark 2001 holy cow.
with a decent size and decent battery its quite an attractive machine atm.

Yo Pyrosburn!!!

How the h#@l does your little banner in your signature know my ISP, my exact IP address, and that I am running windows and IE6????? I even have a firewall up at the moment....

Hehehe... you are silly... J/K. That banner you saw is the reflect information only you see youself. He or anyother won't know this information. It's like print the information from your system resource and show it to you on that banner.

Sager vs Toshiba/Dell

yeah, i know this is a Sager forum, and so there will tend
to be a positive bias towards these brilliant & very fast
Sager desktop replacements, which undeniably occupy the
top rung in their particular niche, but why knock the equally
excellent Toshiba Satellite 5205-S705 or Dell Latitude D800?

"I really do not think that Toshiba has anything on the current
model (let alone the upcoming models) as it is really half the
machine...<snip>...but look at it....64mb of video at 4x agp???"

well, i'm sure the Tosh's mere 64 MB of NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 Go
graphics will acquit itself quite well vs Sager's 128 MB of ATI
Mobility Radeon 9000 once the benchmarks are officially in, and
the Dell's 1.7 GHz Pentium M may suprisingly enough come closer
to a Sager 3.06/HT processor than you'd think in many areas ...

that $2700 price tag can be had for about $2500 from several
online merchants as well as ebay, and for that price you'll get
that amazing UXGA CASV display, the latest NVidia graphics card,
a fast fixed DVD burner (4x DVD-R/RW), 4 hours on 2 batteries,
60GB 5,400 rpm hard disk drive (16MB cache), Toshiba Style Bay
that can house a Bridge Media adapter (Compact Flash/
Memory Stick/SmartMedia) or TV Tuner with remote, as well as a
2nd HDD/Battery/Media Drive, integrated 802.11b Wireless LAN,
Secure Digital card slot, built-in Harman Kardon Speakers
with mini "subwoofer", Media Center, etc etc.

as for the Dell D800, well, let's see, a 15.4" WUXGA screen,
64MB Nvidia Geforce 4 4200 Go with an *upgradable* path
(graphics card is mini-PCI slot based), expandable "D-Bay &
D-Dock" modules, Dual Band WLAN (802.11a/b/g) option,
10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN, 5+ hours on 2 hot-swappable
batteries, the potential for 10k+ on 3dmark 2001 with the
1.7 Pentium M, relatively light in weight - not all that shabby,
eh?

the current crop of Sagers are wonderful beasts indeed, and who
can possibly resist drooling at Adam's latest update on the
8890/5680/4760 (not I! , but there's also a place for a fully-
equipped Toshiba Satellite 5205-S705 and Dell Latitude D800!