Beastly Toshiba Satellite X200 laptop gets spotted

You already knew that Toshiba was doling out the HD DVD love to the X205, but a purported Satellite X200 machine has apparently been apprehended by a Frenchman (or woman) and revealed to the world. Reportedly, this "desktop replacement" starts off with a 17-inch 1,440 x 900 resolution LCD, and packs a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT, 2GB of RAM, a 200GB hard drive spinning at 4200RPMs, Harmon Kardon speakers, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, a DVD burner, 1.3-megapixel camera, hordes of USB 2.0 connectors, fingerprint reader, an ExpressCard slot, and even a numeric keypad thrown in for good measure. While we've seen nothing official, word on the street has this bad boy landing next month for around €1,599 ($2,147), but for now, click on through for the rest of the show.

[Alvin @ Jun 22nd 2007 12:37PM]

Revolutions per minutes?

[anonymous @ Jun 22nd 2007 12:46PM]

@ Alvin

it is a measurement of how slow the HDD spins.

[retro @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:10PM]

um... don't you mean how fast the hard drive spins? People don't usually ask how stinks, they ask how it smells.

Anyways is the Geforce 8700 GT much better than the 8600 GT? Will a Core 2 Duo running at 2.2ghz with the same amount of ram and a 120gb 5400rpm hdd with a 8600 GT be able to render the image the Satellite x200 is rendering here?

[Gaspode @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:20PM]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_per_minute

[Lack @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:25PM]

Actualy, how slow is more apropriate considering the speed of the drive.

[weaszel @ Jun 22nd 2007 2:42PM]

he was referring to the "s" at the end of "RPM", which doesn't need to be pluralized.

it's not a big deal, really.

[Rainier @ Jun 22nd 2007 12:46PM]

*Cue Anya Major with sledgehammer*

[Joe Smith @ Jun 22nd 2007 12:46PM]

revolutions per millisecond?

[Johan S @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:09PM]

I didn't know they made 17 inch displays with such a low resolution.
And a 4200 rpm hard drive .. where did they find one that slow?? I hope it's a ytpo and they meant 7200.

I do appreciate the decent graphics card though.

[zargon @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:29PM]

Have you checked laptop specs for the past few years?

4200, 5400 and I think they even have one in the 3000, have been a common trend. Lower the speed, the less energy it consumes, which is the selling point for these drives in a lot of laptop. Unless you are doing a lot of raw and massive data access, these drives will be perfectly fine.

[DiedFamous @ Jun 23rd 2007 4:44AM]

A sluggish but energy-saving 4200 RPM drive is all well and good for notebooks where battery life is a big competitive selling point, but in a massive 17" "desktop replacement" laptop? Thats just silly. 4200 RPM is heinously slow, the performance and usability difference between that and a 7200 RPM drive in the same computer is usually quite stark so long as the system isn't otherwise bottlenecked. I've plopped a number of 7200 RPM Hitachis into older dell insparons to great effect. I would gladly loose 20 or 40 gigabytes off the drive in that Toshiba in exchange for some decent speed.

[Mike Jenkins @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:35PM]

If it has almost the exact same specifications as the HP Pavilion dv9500t, why is it so much more expensive?

[Loban @ Jun 22nd 2007 2:38PM]

Wow, are you people thick or what? You completely misinterpreted Alvin's post and managed to have an entire conversion from this misinterpretation. He's fully aware of what RPM means. He's saying that the plural version of the terms (RPMs) doesn't make any sense. The author typed 4200RPMs instead of 4200RPM which doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Alvin was not asking what revolutions per minute means, he's merely poking fun at the author for using the wrong terms (RPMs instead of RPM).

[Rofl @ Jun 22nd 2007 6:02PM]

Obviously, the RPMs refers to the rotational acceleration of the drive platters as they attempt to break loose and decapitate their owner.

[gangstified @ Aug 11th 2007 12:48PM]

i have one of these I got last week (X205-S9349). Still have the huge"battle ready game enabled" sticker on it, which makes no sense ( no one can tell me what it means.. its just spam?)

yeah and why want a 7200 rpm driver ina laptop? kinda useless having one that speed sounds like ur using it to transfer alot of data back and fourth.. laptop shouldn't be doing that...
also it comes with a t7100 not 7300.. only the X205-S9359 comes with the t7300...

itsa great laptop tho love the subwoofer altho i use headphones