Toshiba Satellite P25 Laptop Review & Rating
Toshiba Satellite P25 Review: Toshiba's second generation of Media Center notebooks is here. So what do you get for your money? A great notebook whose standout feature is a digital video recorder that will make your VCR obsolete.
This is one of the easiest Digital Video Recorder's to use on any platform. With the click of a button on the included remote control, you can watch a show, record it in real time, or set it in advance to digitally tape a show right off the program guide ( the P25 can hold about 19 hours of top-quality video at one time). You can even watch the beginning of a recorded show while still recording the end, which is one of the many smart reasons that make Media Center Edition 2004 a solid operating system.
Powered by a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 processor with Hyper-Threading, the P25 is a mover that will satisfy gamers, home-video editors, and those who just like to watch movies. This Satellite is loaded with a bevy of top-shelf components like an 80GB 5,400-RPM high-performance hard drive, as well as the latest DVD-Multi drive.
The audio quality is top-notch when compared to most notebooks, but the P25 lacks a S/PDIF optical connector for using a set of high-end external speakers.
The Toshiba P25 offers legacy ports as well as USB, S-Video, and FireWire. Communications are a snap with support for wired LAN, a modem, and Wi-Fi. The P25 also has a pair of Type II PC Card slots and a Secure Digital slot.
The P25 is really a hybrid. It's neither a notebook or a TV, but it offers the best of both worlds.
Toshiba Satellite P25 Multimedia Laptop
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Toshiba Satellite P25 Features/Specifications
- Classification: Desktop Replacement Laptop
- Display: 17'' Widescreen XGA
- Processor: Pentium 4 3.2GHz w / HT
- RAM Memory: 512MB (expandable to 2GB)
- Hard Drive: 80GB
- Optical Drive: DVD+R/RW/CD-RW Combo
- Floppy Drive: No
- Media Card Slot: Secure Digital (SD) Memory Slot
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 64MB Dedicated VRAM
- Audio: Built-In Speakers
- Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11g
- Internet Connectivity: 56K Modem + 10/100 Ethernet
- Battery Life: 2.5 hrs.
- Operating System: Windows XP Home
- Weight: 10 lbs.
- Warranty: 1 Year
- I/O Ports:
- (2) Type II PC Card Slots
- (1) Parallel port
- (1) S-Video port
- (1) Fast Infrared (FIR)
- (1) VGA connector
- (4) USB ports
- (1) FireWire port
- (1) RJ-11 phone jack
- (1) RJ-45 standard Ethernet jack
- Microphone, Headphone line-out jacks