New-look Satellite E105 gets price, ship date

Atypical Toshiba: the Satellite E105

(Credit: Best Buy)

The decidedly un-Toshiba-like Satellite E105 that Crave spied last week has landed. For preorder, anyway. Best Buy's site lists the Satellite E105-S1402 for $1,199 with an arrival estimated between October 14 and 21. With its clean lines, completely flat keyboard deck, and aluminum-and-black color scheme, the E105 looks more like a Sony Vaio or MacBook Pro than your typical Satellite. We're expecting an evaluation unit any day now and hope to bring you a full review by the time the E105 hits store shelves and UPS trucks.

The 14-inch, 5.5-pound laptop looks like a good deal, featuring Intel's Centrino 2 platform, which includes a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 processor, Intel GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics, and Draft N Wi-Fi. Along with 64-bit Vista Home Premium and 4GB of RAM, you also get a 320GB hard drive, a DVD burner, and an HDMI port. Battery life is rated at an impressive 5.5 hours. Also nice, the standard warranty runs for two years.

Two more shots of the Satellite E105 after the break.

(Credit: Best Buy)

(Credit: Best Buy)

(Via: Engadget)

[polis12]

Ugly - and expensive for what you get. My custom built laptop cost me $1065 exactly and I run an Intel P8400 2.26 Ghz, 4 GB ram @ 800 Mhz, Nvidia Geforce 9600M GT, 160 GB 7200 rpm HDD, and an Intel WiFi Link 5100, and Vista Premium 64-bit, all on an Intel GM45 + ICH9-M chipset. So yes, it is a Centrino 2 platform and in full compliance. I guarantee you this rig performs faster and for less money to boot! Crazy how much of a profit those companies are making putting cheap and lousy parts in computers. For $100 more I basically could have splurged on this particular build and still been under the cost of the Toshiba. I mean, I have a 7200 rpm HDD for better performance, 512MB of dedicated DDR3 memory graphics, and still get 4+ hours of battery life, even with the added performance gains draining power (standard 6 cell batt) and that's even before playing around with any settings. I could have added a larger 7200 rpm hard drive and Vista Ultimate for the price they are charging for that POS.

I hope people stop living up to the hype and start reading how to build their own computers. Hopefully the revolution will come soon and the price gouging will come to an end, along with these bloated companies.

[RadioPictures]

This is really not a very intelligent analysis. What a rambling mess without merit.

[berettaguy88]

I'm sure this won't be up here long, but you sound pretty much like a d bag... I'm sure all the money you didn't spend on research and development, staff, benefits and insurance, rent, production lines, and so on helped with your "custom built" laptop. Yes, that would be so awesome if all major corporations went out of business and we all just did everything on our own. You are awesome at economics