Toshiba announces redesigned Satellite A105 notebook series
By Marc Perton 
posted Jan 3rd 2006 11:05PM
posted Jan 3rd 2006 11:05PM
Toshiba is aiming for the budget-friendly desktop-replacement market with its new Satellite A105 notebooks, which
won't likely win any innovation awards, but still pack a nice set of features for a decent price. Starting at $1,050,
the A105 series includes a 15.4-inch display, dual-layer DVD burner, 512MB RAM, a 60GBdrive, built-in WiFi and memory
card readers. Upgrades include hard drive capacities of up to 120GB and 1GB of RAM. We'd like to see a 17-inch display
as an option, but it looks like that's not in the offing for this series.[Read]
looks pretty good for the price
It looks VERY nice for the price. So what's the battery life and weight on this sucker?
Haha. My grandma got a laptop with the same specs for $599 from Acer. Toshiba is an alright company but they overcharge and still use P4 processors meaning battery life is decreased.
ah, but alex, Toshiba pricing differs from country to country, and in Asia they are excellent value. Their lineup too in fact is consistently Centrino / Pentium M CPU's, and I personally have an Euro/Asia spec M40 with PM 1.86 and Geforce 6600, a very decent graphics card, but it is true that the M40's battery is a bit smaller and hence the battery life is low.
Could they have put a crappier screen image on it?
I was able to buy an a105-s1013 with the same stats (minus dvd burner) for $650 after rebates. This is a good laptop for the price.