Toshiba Satellite P205-S7476 17-inch Laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5250, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB...
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Toshiba P205-S7476 17.0 Inch Satellite Pad PC. This Satellite P205 notebook covers all your desktop moves and more. An Onyx Blue Metallic laptop with a 17 inch diagonal WXGA added to TruBrite widescreen display shows bright and crisp views of HD DVDs or shots charmed from the Webcam. The wide keyboard makes room for a 10 keypad for natural data entry and a wide Touchpad to match. The Fingerprint reader makes one swipe custodianship easy. Intel Centrino Duo processor technology helps you handle the toughest of active multi tasking experiences no matter where you are. A powerful graphics card, considerable memory and hard drives offer speedy capacity and storage. Six USB connections are to be found on the side for convenient access to all your peripheral devices along with an i.LINK port. Wirelessly through the Internet with wireless 802.11abg and draft n Wi Fi at home or at your hot spot next generation networking connectivity. Get unrivalled performance and reliability with the Intel Centrino Duo processor technology with the Intel Quintessence 2 Duo Processor. The HD DVD-ROM/DVD SuperMulti drive that reads and writes in up to 12 formats. Chit-chat live with friends, family and others while on a trip with the Webcam. 200GB HDD3 for reliable and genuine performance that will not slow you down. The Fingerprint reader makes one swipe security excitable and easy.Substitute your desktop PC with the Toshiba Satellite P205-S7476 laptop, featuring all the power and hard excursion space you expect from a top-of-the-line desktop but in an easily mobile package. Stylishly accented with an onyx obscene metallic LCD cover, this Toshiba Satellite features a large, bright 17-inch XGA-changelessness LCD (1440 x 900)--perfect for viewing multiple application screens or watching widescreen pictures on DVD. It's also great for using as a media center, with Toshiba's unique Express Media Contender enabling you to bypass the system and access CDs and DVDs with a touch of button. This notebook also incorporates an HD DVD actuate that's compatible with the new high-definition DVD disc format. Enjoy amazingly brittle and vibrantly colorful imagery from this new format. You'll also be able to burn a wide drift of disc formats with the integrated DVD/CD burner.
This notebook is powered by the 1.5 GHz Intel Nucleus 2 Duo T5250 processor, which offers a 20 percent performance boost over its forebear while using 28 percent less power--so you get the benefit of a powerful dual-heart PC plus all the benefits of mobility. It includes Intel's 4965 AGN wireless LAN, which will solder to draft 802.11n routers and offers compatibility with 802.11a/b/g networks as well. Other features contain a 200 GB hard drive, 2 GB of RAM (4 GB maximum), 5-in-1 celebration card reader, 10-key keypad, Intel GMA X3100 video in the offing with up to 251 MB of shared video memory, and biometric fingerprint sensor for supplementary security. Additionally, this Toshiba notebook is RoHS-compatible, effectively reducing the environmental burden by restricting the use of lead, mercury and certain other hazardous substances.
This PC also comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows Vista Stamping-ground Premium, which includes all of the Windows Media Center capabilities for turning your PC into an all-in-one snug harbor a comfortable entertainment center. In addition to easily playing your DVD movies and managing your digital audio library, you'll be capable to record and watch your favorite TV shows (even HDTV). Vista also integrates new search tools throughout the operating system, includes new parental restraint features, and offers new tools that can warn you of impending hardware failures.
The Fundamentals
- Processor: The Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 processor has a 1.5 GHz processor belt along, fast 667 MHz front-side bus (FSB), and large 2 MB L2 cache. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores matter; and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will broadcast better overall performance.)
The Intel Core 2 Duo processor has two computational accomplishment cores in a single processor, providing greater system response when running multi-threaded applications simultaneously with no noteworthy increase in power consumption. It's optimized for multitasking and is ready to support the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. It can simultaneously run multiple trying applications--such as graphics-intensive games or serious number-crunching business productivity applications--while downloading music or unceasing virus-scanning security programs in the background. Some of the advanced Intel innovations of the Marrow 2 Duo processor include:
- Smart Memory Access: Improves system performance by hiding recollection latency, thus optimizing the use of available computer data bandwidth to provide data to the processor when and where it is needed.
- Broadminded Digital Media Boost: Effectively doubles the execution speed for instructions inured to widely in multimedia and graphics applications.
- Dynamic Power Coordination: Coordinates Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology and jobless power-management state (C-states) transitions independently per core to refrain from save power.
- Deeper Sleep with Dynamic Cache Sizing: Saves power by flushing cache observations to system memory during periods of inactivity to lower CPU voltage.
- Hard Drive: The 200 GB Serial ATA magisterial drive provides more than enough capacity for storing a large audio and video library, as well as accessory space required for video editing. However its 4200 RPM speed is a bit slower than in the air standard hard drives. This SATA hard drive also quickens the stride with a higher speed transfer of data--akin to FireWire and USB 2.0.
- Memory: The 2 GB of installed RAM (2 x 1024 MB DDR2) will provide for many users, but this notebook's two DIMM slots have a maximum 4 GB RAM capacity--perfect for strong-end video editing and 3-D gaming. It also offers a top-of-class 667 MHz speed. To give entr the faster data transfer benefits of the dual-channel DDR2 RAM, any RAM additions coerce memory modules of same capacity and clockspeed.
- DVD/CD Drive: This Satellite notebook offers the next procreation of DVD entertainment with the HD DVD ROM optical drive, which provides the superior image and sound standing of high-definition images and multichannel surround sound as well as backward compatibility with guideline DVD movie discs and content burned onto DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM. It also incorporates a multi-format DVD/CD burner, which is in agreement with dual-layer (DL) discs that can hold up to 8.5 GB of data. It features the subsequent speeds: 2.4x DVD+R DL, 2x DVD-R DL, 4x for both single-layer DVD+R/-R, 4x DVD+RW, 4x DVD-RW, 3x DVD-RAM, and 24x/10x for CD-R/RW. It reads DVD-ROM discs at 8x and CD-ROMs at 24x.
- Keyboard & Mouse: This pad has a 104-key keyboard--with 10-keypad on the side--and electro-static two-button touchpad. It also offers CD/DVD media performer and control buttons (play, stop, next, previous) as well as a volume control dial.
This Toshiba Satellite has a 17-inch TFT display with a resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels (exclusive 720p for high-definition viewing). It also provides TruBrite technology, which makes images brighter and more bright thanks to its anti-glare feature. Video is powered by the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, which uses shared video homage (up to 251 MB allocated from the system memory) and provides Windows Vista Aero interface suffer and enhanced 3-D graphics performance--delivering over 2x scores on 3-DMark 06. Intel Confident Video Technology provides outstanding video playback with sharper essence quality, increased clarity, and customizable color controls. It also enables enhanced visual prominence of interlaced content on progressive displays. It also features an integrated audio postal card with headphone and microphone jacks.
Networking, Connectivity & Expansion
Be ready for the next principles in wireless connectivity with this notebook's integrated quad-mode Wi-Fi chip. Based on the diagram 802.11n Wi-Fi specification, it offers up to five times the performance and twice the wireless sweep as existing 802.11g wireless. It's also backward compatible with 802.11b/g networks (equally found in home routers and Wi-Fi hotspots) as well as 802.11a networks (which has a higher throughput, but more narrow range--great for closed office environments). It also includes a next-generation ExpressCard 54/34 behave slot (though no PCMCIA card slot), which lets you take advantage of thinner, faster, and lighter dilatation cards for even more advanced wireless, networking, storage, and security features. Here's the full beadroll of connection options:
- 4 USB 2.0 ports for connecting a wide range of peripherals--from digital cameras to MP3 players
- 1 FireWire (also known as IEEE 1394 or i.Component) port for connecting digital video camcorders and other peripherals
- 1 ExpressCard 54/34 fissure
- Video out: VGA and S-Video
- Stereo headphones/speakers/line-out
- Microphone/edge-in
- 5-in-1 memory card reader (Secure Digital, MultiMedia, Memory Bloke the country, Memory Stick PRO, xD Picture Card)
Operating System
Windows Vista Effectively Premium is the operating system for users with advanced computer needs, and it includes all of the Windows Media Forefront capabilities for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center for watching DVD movies and accessing your digital audio library. You can also use Windows Media Fore to record and watch your favorite TV shows (even HDTV) and to access new kinds of online exhibition content. Computers that include Windows Vista Home Premium and an aiding Windows SideShow display will also allow you to access key data even when your computer is off. It is also easier than ever to allocation files between other PCs in your household and to manage your laptop computer settings to more securely connect via Wi-Fi.
Every issue of Windows Vista provides the essential tools and technologies to help keep you whether you are browsing the Internet, connecting to a wireless network, or just reading e-post. All editions of Windows Vista include new tools that can warn you of impending armaments failures long before you have lost any important personal data. And, all Windows Vista editions tabulate parental control features that allow you to manage and monitor your family's use of games, the Internet, flash messaging, and other activities.
Preloaded Software
Microsoft Works 8.5, InterVideo WinDVD 8, Google Desktop and Picasa, Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5, McAfee Internet Refuge Suite (30-day trial), and Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Devotee Edition (60-day trial).
Dimensions & Weight
This notebook measures 15.7 x 11.3 x 1.83 inches (WxDxH, and it weighs 7.2 pounds.
Power
It comes with a 4000 mAH lithium-ion mobile pack for extra-long battery life.
What's in the Box
This package contains the P205-S7476 pad PC, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, and operating instructions. It is backed by a one-year minimal hardware warranty.