Toshiba Qosmio Q45 and Satellite P205 with Intel Santa Rosa Announced

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Toshiba is refreshing a couple of its larger sized consumer notebooks with the new Intel Santa Rosa platform. The Qosmio G45 will adopt Intel's Santa Rosa and include an NVIDIA 8600GM graphics card, while the 17.1&quot; screen P205 will offer integrated Intel X3100 graphics.

Toshiba Satellite P205 with Santa Rosa

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The Toshiba atellite P205 is large, most certainly a desktop style replacement notebook, and includes a number pad on the keyboard. The P205 was initially released a few weeks ago with a Core 2 Duo processor, and it is now being refreshed with the Intel Santa Rosa platform. There will still be no dedicated graphics card option, but the new Intel X3100 integrated graphics card should offer a bit of a boost of the GMA 950 that is being replaced. Following are some basic specs of the Santa Rosa equipped Satellite P205:

• Processor: Intel Centrino Duo (Santa Rosa) up to 2.2GHz and 4MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB
• OS: Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
• Memory / RAM: up to 2GB
• Hard Drive: 120GB (5400 RPM) Serial-ATA (SATA) hard drive
• Optical Drive: DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash drive supporting 11 formats
• Screen:  17-inch diagonal widescreen TruBrite display 1440x900 native resolution (WXGA+)
• Graphics: Intel X3100
• Wireless:  Intel 802.11n
• Embedded webcam with built-in microphone
• Ports and Slots: ExpressCard/34 and ExpressCard/54, 5-in-1 media card reader, video out, S-Video, headphone out, microphone in, FireWire, 4 Port USB ports
• Weight: 7.2lbs
• Dimensions: Height 1.8in x Width 15.7 in x Depth 11.3 in

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Toshiba Qosmio G45

The Qosmio G45 is going to be the beast in the Toshiba lineup. It will offer a high end Centrino Duo processor and NVIDIA 8600M graphics processing. In other words, it's geared towards being a gaming notebook. the 8600M graphics card fully supports DirectX 10 graphics.

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Now here's the catch: the Q45 won't be available until Q3 2007. That's right, according to the folks at Toshiba &quot;Pricing, availability and specific model number and configuration for the next-generation Qosmio G45 with the NVIDIA GeForce 8 series GPU will be announced during the third quarter of 2007.&quot; Bummer, that's one way to throw cold water on an exciting announcement.

 

 

 

Now I'm sure the Nvidia 8600 isn't the card to wait for , since Toshiba never puts the good stuff in their top of the line ( premium priced ) Qosmio .

 

Well I never thought the qosmio was a gaming laptop. I always thought it was geared towards a designer or developer. It has specific tools (software and on the chassis) geared towards that route. And on the entertainment side it has tons of sound controls, many speakers and i think a subwoofer, 1080p + HD-dvd or blu-ray (whichever toshiba supports), and the 8600 has advanced purevideo technology better then that of the 8800 (the desktop 8800 at least).

 

You have a point there but most of the features are already present in other notebooks or will show up in the new Santa Rosa models of "regular" 17" notebooks ( like 2 HD , HD DVD etc. ) .

I don't see anything remarkable about the spec ( maybe a LED screen ) , even my old Dell 9300 has a subwoofer , and I believe it outperforms much newer Qosmios .

My point is that :

for what I guess will be a 2999$ ( maybe more )
17" larger then normal ( maybe 15% by the photo )
I expect top level parts .

 

Did they say whether or not the A205 would also be going Santa Rosa?

Also, when might the Santa Rosa-enabled P205 models be going up for sale?

- Trip