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More…Toshiba laptops are wildly popular and for a reason: They offer good quality and they're eminently affordable. The $1649 (as of April 11, 2007) Toshiba Satellite P105-S6217 isn't a high concept notebook, but it makes an excellent second PC at home or a solid small-office desktop replacement.
Toshiba Satellite P105-S6217 Notebook (1.66GHz Core 2 Duo Mobile T5500, 2GB DDR2, 200GB, DVDRW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium, 17" TFT)
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Storage
| Total HD Size | 200 GB |
| Optical Drive Type | DVD±R DL/DVD±RW |
| Optical Drive Speed | 2.4 |
| Removable Optical Drive | No |
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| Number of Media Slots | 3 |
| PC Card Slots | Yes |
Networking
| Bluetooth | No |
| Included network card | Gigabit ethernet |
| Modem Type | V.92 |
| Wireless LAN Type | 802.11a/g |
Multimedia
| Video chipset | nVidia GeForce Go 7300 |
| Installed video memory | 128 MB |
| Video integration | Discrete |
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) |
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Pros
Relatively light and affordable
Included TV tuner and remote
Cons
Not configurable
No Bluetooth or WWAN communications
Bottom Line
This reasonably priced desktop replacement has good multimedia features, including an HDTV tuner, but performance was modest.
Toshiba Satellite P105-S6217
Satellite P105-S6217 Notebook (1.66GHz Core 2 Duo Mobile T5500, 2GB DDR2, 200GB, DVDRW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium, 17" TFT) Review, by Carla Thornton April 21, 2007
At 7.4 pounds, the P105-S6217 is very light for a laptop with a 17-inch screen. Its LCD display is big and easy to read. The full-size keyboard includes a dedicated keypad and a dual-mode touchpad of the type seen on past Satellites.
Though the icon-heavy touchpad looks gimmicky, it turns out to be one of the notebook's best features. One tap in the upper right corner switches the touchpad from cursor mode to button mode and activates pressure-sensitive symbols that you can use to launch six different Web sites or applications.
The P105-S6217 comes with four USB ports, a next-generation ExpressCard slot, a shared five-in-one memory slot, an S/PDIF port for digital speakers, and a DVI port for LCD monitors. A large fingerprint reader situated in the wrist rest lets you breeze through log-ins.
Storage is extremely generous: The spacious 200GB hard drive invites you to record gigabyte-gobbling TV programs. The drive's slow, 4200-rpm spin rate--along with the laptop's 1.66-GHz Core 2 Duo T5500 processor--kept the Satellite's WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score to a modest 68, three points below the average of 71 for our desktop replacements group. Its battery life of slightly less than 2 hours, however, is disappointing.
The only thing this likable laptop truly tanks at, however, is 3D gaming. The Satellite's nVidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics controller features just 128MB of RAM, and the lack of memory showed up painfully in our tests. Far Cry and Doom 3 with antialiasing enabled crawled along at between 7 and 13 frames per second. Without antialiasing, only Far Cry was playable--and barely so, at 37 fps.
It's not the fanciest multimedia laptop on the shelf, but this Windows Vista Home Premium-equipped portable does all right. It bundles an external HDTV tuner, including a desktop antenna for picking up signals when a cable connection isn't possible. The excellent Harman/Kardon stereo speakers deliver terrific output. Four square buttons above the keyboard play, stop, and move backward and forward through CDs and DVDs; and if you leave a disc in the DVD burner, pressing the Media Button will play it. Toshiba completes a very nice effort by bundling Microsoft Works 8.5.
Carla Thornton
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| Adobe Photoshop CS2 | 670 |
| Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX | 560 |
| Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering | 980 |
| Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm) | 1:55:04 AM |
| Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 20.3 |
| Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 36.73 |
| Firefox 2 | 427 |
| Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1 | 428 |
| Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0 | 330 |
| Multitasking | 522 |
| Nero 7 Ultra Edition | 815 |
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5 | 281 |
| Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0 | 346 |
| WorldBench 6 Score | 68 |
| WorldBench 6 Word Score | Very Good |
User Reviews
Average User Reviews for Toshiba Satellite P105-S6217 Notebook (1.66GHz Core 2 Duo Mobile T5500, 2GB DDR2, 200GB, DVDRW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium, 17" TFT)
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Reviewed by: toshibarippedmehoff
Duration of ownership: 1 Year
Strengths: It looks purty
Weaknesses: It overheats and shuts off ALOT!
Overall: It all started with the sight of the dual core nvidia combo in a laptop. how happy i was! I bought the t2400 based model right away at costco. oh noes 0x00000ea errors. :*( must be bad ram or driver error. SO i called tech support to have some noob tell me how i should take everything off my startup menu. WHAT?! i didnt understand. so i returned it to costco for a full refund. :) then i see the toshiba stopped making the t2400 based nvidia combo and upped it to the t2500. im thinkin maybe it just needed more cpu power. So i spend $2800 bucks on a laptop with a 7900gtx and 2.0ghz dual core. the t2500. so happy. then i notice high def world of warcraft is out of the question. i think eh it may just be the ping throttle. no such luck. oblivion had the same issues. then overheating in basic windows? 12fps in wow at low definition?!?! THEN BSOD errrors!!! and so i decide to let toshiba help me out with the situation since i bought it from direct. 2 "system boards" and a full year of warranty later. I am talking to my 7th toshiba rep ,a mr. roger. lol . and everytime they transfer me their volume cuts in half. so i call for tech support. they transfer me to toshiba tech customer service who then tansfers me to customer relations who is inaudible. who then transfers me again. IM 2 HOURS DEEP INTO THEIR PHONES AT THIS POINT!!! i wanna test this in a recording at another time. horrible business tactic with system volume based off call duration. bad tactic. but i digress. they are now 2 days late sending me my "repaired computer" for the third time and im outta my warranty. so i can either shell out the extra cash for the extended warranty and wait till they stop manufacturing the "system board" to get a new computer that will hopefully work. Or i can take it all apart and introduce a water cooling solution to this overheated monstrosity.
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