Just in case any manufacturing stragglers out there hadn't caught on yet: if it ain't packing
Vista you might as well go home at this point. We know the changes might not be huge in Microsoft's upcoming OS, but it's shiny and it's fresh, so get on that. Anyways, no complaints here --
Toshiba didn't hold back with its new A135 15.4-inch laptops, and you can nab your own with Windows Vista Home Premium of Windows Vista Ultimate on January 30th. As for specs, there's nothing too incredibly surprising here, but Toshiba did manage to squeeze dual 2.4-inch drive bays into the 6 pound, 1.47-inch thick laptop, which is a bit of a feat in itself. The 15.4-inch display rocks a 1280 x 800 resolution, graphics are provided by an Intel 950 integrated number, while WiFi is of the 802.11a/b/g variety. Other perks include a 5-in-1 memory card reader and a PCMCIA slot, but it really seems Toshiba left a lot of the usual media-friendly suspects out to make room for those dual 120GB SATA drives. Prices start at $900 for the A135-S4427 1.73GHz Core Duo laptop with 1GB of RAM and a single 120 gigger, ranging up to the $1500 A135-S4499 which packs a 1.66GHz Core 2 Duo proc, 2GB of RAM, dual 120GB disks and of course Vista Ultimate.
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posted Jan 23rd 2007 4:12PM
I would never buy another toshiba laptop. My last Satelite laptop suffered from overheating so bad it was impossible to do anything somewhat taxing on the CPU. MY GFs was the same case. I also had a friend with the same overheating issue on various Satelite laptops. Toshiba refused to address the overheating issue with the P4s in their laptops.
Totally agreed.
I will never buy one again either. I have a Toshiba laptop with a 3.33 GHz P4 in it and I have tons of issues with overheating. I have to keep my room temperature at 40 degrees just so that the thing won't shut off. I even sent it in to Toshiba to see if they would fix the blasted problem, they replaced the fans but this didn't do anything. So I'm stuck with it for now until Jobs decides to release Leopard and then I'm getting a beautiful white MacBook.
All P4 laptops had overheating problems.
is that got one of them there double heart processors?
18 of the 30 laptops at work are toshiba, they fail just as much as the others, including the macbooks.
Vista sucks anyway.. why would I care?
I have a Toshiba laptop and have no heat problems at all, I usually have the laptop on the carpet and in bed with me, Never gets hot the fan keeps the system cool,
Yawn. Another day, another ugly new PC laptop.
Why is it only Apple can put slot-loading optical drives in their laptops?
And Acer.
Who cares about Toshiba? they are lagged and still ships new laptops with old duo, instead of C2D with at least 2.0 GHz, and they use ATI chips which are too bad comparing to Nvidia who supports FreeBSD drivers too.
I would go for HP instead!
These laptops are for the cheapo or power hungry US market. That's why they're crap.