Jason Dunn
03-18-2004, 01:23 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115223,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115223,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/115223-n_031604_satP25.jpg" /> "The new Satellite P25-S670 comes with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system, and a 17-inch widescreen display. Toshiba America Information Systems, a division of Toshiba, expects consumers will watch movies and store their digital media on this notebook. The P25-S670 costs $2699 with a 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of DDR SDRAM, an 80GB hard drive, and a DVD-RAM/-RW/CD-RW multifunction optical drive. It also comes with a GeForce FX Go5700 graphics card from Nvidia with 128MB of video memory and an integrated 802.11a/802.11g wireless chip."<br /><br />Mobile multimedia continues to be a fascination for me, so this announcement from Toshiba caught my interest. Although I have to admit, I'm not sure what's new about these models - I've been looking at an hp zd7000 and it seems to already everything that this new Toshiba offers. <a href="http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/pc/pc_news_display.jsp?comm=CS&newsType=Press%20Release&ruleSet=getPressRelease&newsID=3256850073">The official press release</a> isn't much help either - is it the GeForceFX Go5700 rather than the 5600 that's the news here? The hp zd7000 has the 5600, but I'm not clear on the differences other than the number 100. ;-) The zd7000 has a model with the Extreme Edition CPU at 3.2 Ghz, but it's an amazing $650 USD more than the normal P4 3.2 Ghz! 8O That's a LOT of money for some extra cache. So about this Toshiba...looks good, but I prefer the design of the hp zd7000.