Toshiba announces redesigned Satellite A105 notebook series

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.

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[Golf7 @ Jan 3rd 2006 11:16PM]

looks pretty good for the price

[Daniel @ Jan 3rd 2006 11:22PM]

It looks VERY nice for the price. So what's the battery life and weight on this sucker?

[Alex @ Jan 4th 2006 12:30AM]

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.

[Ypoknons @ Jan 4th 2006 1:43AM]

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.

[Rus @ Jan 4th 2006 8:12AM]

Could they have put a crappier screen image on it?

[Kreshke @ Jan 18th 2006 3:51PM]

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.