Comments on: New-look Satellite E105 gets price, ship date

The Toshiba Satellite E105 doesn't look like a typical Satellite laptop and is available at Best Buy's Web site.

[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