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Toshiba Introduces A 17"-Screen Laptop
George Wright writes "Toshiba have announced a monster of a laptop with their Satellite P25. Seems they've decided to copy Apple's idea of fitting a 17" LCD on a laptop, but have ended making a true aircraft carrier in doing so. Notable "features" are the 2.8GHz P4, the 802.11a/b and the 10lb weight (!!!). Still a relatively low resolution though :("
Is four retractable legs on the underneath, and you could have yourself a carry-round table, where your meals would never get cold (as long as the laptop was switched on).
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Sheesh! I read the story and see only *3* comments and when I try to hit the lonk to Toshiba to see the bad boy, I find the server is so busy it times out. When will we ahve a link to the RIAA so we can DDOS them again?
It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. It's both!
Don't say 10 ~pounds~, say JUST A HINT OVER 4.5 kg.
blarg.
Does this mean i can finally call my full tower - 19'' CRT monitor - plus Laserjet 2100 , computer a Laptop without people laughing? Hurray!
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Keep on pumping out those 17, 19, 21, 40 inch screens on laptops with all the fun toys... its making the smaller, better, lighter, just as capable ones even cheaper!
Yup - make a TFT with the same pixel size as your Dell and the same physical dimensions as this Tosh, and you'd be looking at a 17" widescreen 1960x1280. Oooo, that would be sweet... as it is, this thing looks like an old laptop that's been hit with an enbigulator ray.
or does this remind anyone else of a george forman grill? possibly a waffle iron...
they advertise this thing as a media center
if all they think people want in a laptop anymore is a DVD/CD player, why not just make and sell them that instead?
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but that's a dead horse best left unbeaten.
No, I believe that's the stained spot on the ground where the dead horse has finally finished rotting away that is better off left unbeaten.
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Isn't the preferred term "notebook computer"? Mind you, this is more of a "domesdaybook computer" ;-)
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The answer is simple. Didn't you know this is the "Year of the Laptop"
You don't understand... That's not a laptop, it's 1U server with a screen - so you can look at what's going on with your Windows 2003 when you need it most!
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It's alright, he works for NASA.
Does it come with America's Best Warranty?
His apple math still says 6.8 lbs is half as heavy as 10 lbs.
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Because Toshiba wants to sell theirs for less than $6000.
It hurts when I pee.
There looks like there could be enough room under the keyboard for a suit, a change of shoes and a laptop.
Best wishes,
Mike.
It'll still function. You just won't be leaveing La Paz, Bolivia with it.
that's no laptop...
it's a space station.
PHB: "Have you seen the new Apple laptops? They've got 17" screens! What are we doing to counteract this?"
Engineers: "Well, we have been working on it for a while sir. It only seemed to be the next step."
PHB: "When will it be ready?"
Engineers: "Given the current status, we have to redesign some things to accomodate for the power and size. Maybe two years."
PHB: "Two years! We need this out by next summer! And make it as powerful as possible. We need to beat out anybody else on power."
Engineers: "But what about battery life? If we use mobile Pentiums and use Intel's Centrino specs, we could save on power--"
PHB: "I want MORE power."
Engineers: "But, it'll weigh a ton. Laptops are supposed to be light."
PHB: "La la la. Not listening. Just make it have a 17" screen and make it more powerful."
Engineers: "Okay, we'll do it."
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Whereas in the Apple world, each box is ugly as fuck, but in a different way. I look forward to the launch of each successive Apple product, as I like to laugh at the price, and marvel at what shade of tacky see-through plastic it's made out of this time.
;)
Hah! The G5 might be a cheese-grater, but plastic it is not!
After the dot-com meltdown, geeks are just starting to find employment again. The remaining employers are unwilling to pay for benefits like health insurance, but are happy to buy computer equipment. So the display manufacturers are keeping resolution down until we can afford to get new glasses.
*duh*
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Crapple hasn't even figured how to stick PgUp/PgDn on their laptops, much less a second mouse button.
When I visited I got a message "Slashdot visitors please use this link "Satellite P25"" Slashdot is so popular that companys are making cache pages just for it. COOL!
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Just a guess, but "what's going on" is probably colored blue.
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Grates cheese AND out performs a dual Xeon system? And people say Mac's aren't bargains.
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isn't "dual monitor", like, two words?
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