Description:
If you’re shopping for an industrial-strength mobile computer to serve as a desktop replacement, the Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303 notebook PC is the kind of heavy-duty, no-compromises performer that can fill just about any shoes, no matter how big. The 1905-S303’s 2.4 GHz Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor-M provides gale-force computing power across a broad range of productivity and multimedia software. The notebook’s 512 MB of memory--expandable to 1 GB--and 512 KB of L2 cache smoothly run multiple applications simultaneously. The notebook’s 40 GB hard drive offers substantial data and multimedia download storage. A multifunction DVD/CD-RW drive lets you watch movies, and listen to and record music and back up data on CD. Sound from the notebook’s built-in stereo speakers is enhanced by 3-D sound support with HRTF 3-D positional audio, Direct 3-D sound, and hardware acceleration for DirectSound and DirectMusic. The 1905-S303 includes a 15-inch XGA active-matrix display that, coupled with an ATI M6-P graphics controller and 32 MB of 250 MHz DDR external video memory, supports up to 16 million colors at 1,024 X 768 resolution. The 8.3-pound, 13-by-10.9-by-2-inch 1905-S303 includes an integrated 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface with RJ-45 LAN port and built-in 56K V.92 modem with RJ-11 connector. Other ports include two USB interfaces, a TV-out interface, a FireWire interface, a parallel port, and an RGB monitor port. A 32-bit CardBus-ready PC Card slot supports two Type II cards or one Type III card. The notebook’s keyboard includes 85 full-size keys with 12 function keys. The 1905-S303 also offers a touchpad pointing device and a full complement of hardware-based CD control functions. Installed software includes Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Works, Intuit Quicken Basic 2001, InterVideo WinDVD, Norton AntiVirus 2002, and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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