Toshiba launches new Satellite netbooks in the US and UK

We know you love nothing more than a Toshiba Satellite laptop announcement, so listen up: the company has just announced two new CULV ultraportables of the UK and stateside market: The Satellite T135 (or the T130 as it's known overseas) is a 13.3-inch beauty with options including either an Intel Pentium, Celeron single core or Celeron dual-core CPU, up to 3GB of DDR3 RAM, and 250GB harddrive. The Satellite T115 (or T110 in the UK) sports an 11.6-inch display, either an Intel Pentium or Celeron single core CPU, and up to 4GB of RAM and 500GB harddrive. What's more, the kids over at Laptop Mag have given the T135 the old once-over and found it to be a pretty good deal: "for slightly less than the competition," they said of the $709 review unit, you're getting "good performance and a stylish design." Perhaps the single touchpad button and the quiet speakers will be a turn-off to some, but it takes all kinds, right? Look for the T135 and T115 on October 22nd, for $599 and $449 respectively -- their UK counterparts should hit the streets on the same date, priced from £429.
Read - Toshiba Satellite T130/T135 and T110/T115 CULV ultraportables debut
Read - Toshiba Satellite T135 review

[Level 5 Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:39PM]

13.3"? Pentium? Celeron? 4GB RAM? Did I miss how these are netbooks?

[Flowah Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:49PM]

11.6 is pretty netbookish.

[Alan Strangis Posted Sep 29th 2009 3:44PM]

I agree that even 11.6 is probably too big to be considered a netbook (though borderline). Considering the higher price and very un-netbooky specs (CPU, RAM etc) at these are more along the line of thin-and-light.

[Terrillo Posted Sep 29th 2009 4:33PM]

Its perfect

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 7:36PM]

it is not a netbook. it's an ultraportable.
But you may ask what a netbook is, well that's noone knows.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 30th 2009 1:11AM]

I don't care what they call it. Toss in a spurs engine and call me interested.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:41PM]

Will the 11.6" version come in white as well? No wonder the Vaio TT was discontinued with these cheap 11" ultraportables. I was a huge fan of the Vaio T series but am very happy there are affordable ultraportables without the horrid Atom processor and 945 chipset.

I've noticed that Toshiba seems to have the most gloss on their laptops. YUCK!

[Jeff Kibuule Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:43PM]

We still need to get them to use nVidia ION chips for graphics and then we can say OEMs are finally listening. No more Intel GPUs!

[yaksplat Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:46PM]

Features available on the Toshiba Satellite T135 include:
13.3-inch diagonal widescreen HD TruBrite™ LED Backlit display
Windows 7 Home Premium operating system
Intel® Pentium® SU4100 processor or Intel® Pentium® SU2700 processor
DDR3 RAM6
Starting at 250GB (5400 RPM) HDD7
802.11b/g/n wireless8 and 10/100 Ethernet
Bluetooth V2.1 + EDR (available on select models)
Toshiba Hard Drive Impact Sensor
Touch Pad with Multi-touch Control
Lightweight at only 3.88 lbs.2
Long-life 6-cell battery delivering up to 9 hours of battery life3
One eSATA/USB combo port with USB Sleep-and-Charge4 and two USB 2.0 ports
HDMI port
Built-in Webcam with Toshiba Face Recognition, stereo speakers and microphone
Toshiba PC Health Monitor
5-in-1 Memory Card Reader Slot
Features available on the Toshiba Satellite T115 include:
11.6-inch diagonal widescreen HD TruBrite™ LED Backlit display
Windows® 7 Home Premium operating system
Intel® Pentium® SU4100 processor or Intel® Celeron® 743 processor5
DDR3 RAM6
Starting at 250GB (5400 RPM) HDD7
802.11b/g/n wireless8 10/100 Ethernet
Toshiba Hard Drive Impact Sensor
Touch Pad with Multi-touch Control
Lightweight at only 3.49 lbs.2
Long-life 6-cell battery delivering up to 9 hours of battery life3
One eSATA/USB combo port with USB Sleep-and-Charge4 and two USB 2.0 ports
HDMI port
Built-in Webcam with Toshiba Face Recognition, stereo speakers and microphone
Toshiba PC Health Monitor
5-in-1 Memory Card Reader Slot

[yaksplat Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:47PM]

http://laptops.toshiba.com/pressrelease/456433

[Fanfoot Posted Sep 30th 2009 1:59AM]

Thanks. Don't see dimensions. I'm a little worried with those huge top and bottom bezels that the 11-incher is pretty huge. If its about the same size as every 12" laptop, I'm not sure I see the point.

The 6 cell battery seems livable based on the side-view in the official picasa picture set.

Not impressed with the keyboard. The right shift. The 92% size when they've got room to be full sized. But might be okay, would have to get my hands on it. Seems like they could have avoided this question.

Specs seem quite decent--multitouch, decent screen rez, 802.11n, etc. Lousy speakers isn't acceptable anymore though...

Also whats with the freaking port layout on the 13"? You put the SD card near the front of the keyboard because when the SD card is inserted it doesn't interfere with anything. You put the USB ports at the back since you don't want things sticking out of the sides near the front of the thing when its on your lap...

[pika2000 Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:57PM]

Bah, can't wait for my 17" 'netbook'. :P

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 11:21PM]

Wow, I love the design of this laptop.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 3:25PM]

When will Toshiba lounche a real satellie?

[radarskiy Posted Sep 29th 2009 3:47PM]

http://www.ntspace.jp/en/

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 4:34PM]

It's just me or the only netbook reference in all of this is from Engadget? Toshiba is selling it as a "ultra-thin laptop".

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 29th 2009 11:53PM]

Amazing. Wonder when will it be available in Asia. Looking forward to try them out and see how the customers' response to it.