Toshiba and Best Buy Unveil Exclusive Satellite E205 Laptop

January 8, 2010 By Dena Cassella

This thin and light Toshiba laptop is among the first to feature Intel’s new wireless technology.

Toshiba today introduced the Satellite E205 laptop with new features that deliver more wireless freedom. The laptop is the second collaboration between Toshiba and Best Buy as part of the Blue Label initiative, which develops products based directly on feedback from Best Buy customers. Offered exclusively at Best Buy stores nationwide, the Satellite E205 laptop weighs just 5.1 pounds, measures only 1.2-inches thick and houses performance-class technologies, including the new Intel Core i5-430M processor1 with Turbo Boost Technology.

Encased in metallic blue, the E205 sports a 14-inch diagonal widescreen LED Backlit display, an LED backlit keyboard, and TouchPad with Multi-touch Control. The Satellite E205 also features a massive 500GB hard drive, 4GB of ultra-fast DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium, Wireless-N Wi-Fi, an HDMI port and a battery life rating of up to six hours.

“Our customers are expressing a real desire for connectivity because they’re more reliant than ever on their computers, and they want to be able to easily move content from these machines to other hardware in their homes,” said Jason Bonfig, vice president of computers at Best Buy. “Now they can wirelessly send personal content like digital images or Hulu and Netflix shows from their laptops directly to their TVs – in up to 720p resolution.”

The Satellite E205 will be available on January 17 at Best Buy stores nationwide and on BestBuy.com for $999.99 MSRP.

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What Eva at 2:53pm 8th January 2010 First of all, there is no 750P.

Second, when you hook a computer up to an external display with DVI or HDMI (which is merely an extension of DVI), the computer detects the resolution of the output device and sets itself accordingly. So if your TV returns a resolution of 1920x1080, then that's what the computer will display.

"Wi-Fi" is too slow to transmit HD video. You might get it to transmit video, but it would be horribly compressed (even more than it already is). Also, wireless phones and other devices on the overcrowded 2.4 gHz spectrum would kill your video.

All you need to a computer with a DVI output, which most real laptops have. A few do have HDMI.
ilovenudism at 12:47pm 8th January 2010 What I want is a laptop with THE BEST video card, HDMI hookups( with 1080P- NOT just 750P OR even BETTER a wi-fi connectivity to my big screen! Why can't anybody do this????