Toshiba Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. released large notebooks that offer desktop-like performance. Toshiba is targeting home users while Dell eyes on the design engineer and software developer.

For CPU selection, Toshiba is sticking with the desktop version of the Pentium 4 for its new notebooks although Intel has recently released the Mobile Pentium processor for notebook.

The Toshiba A20/A25-S207 series notebooks come with Intel's 2.66GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512M bytes of memory, a 40G-byte hard drive, a 15-inch display, a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive, and integrated 802.11b connectivity. The A25-S207 costs $1,499 with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP Home Edition, and the A20-S207 costs $1,579 with Windows XP Professional Edition.

The A25-S307 notebook comes with a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512M bytes of RAM, a 60G-byte hard drive, a 15-inch display, a DVD-R/RW drive, integrated 802.11b and 802.11a wireless, and Windows XP Home Edition for $1,899.

Dell's new Precision M60 is a workstation-class machine. A base configuration with a 1.4GHz Pentium M processor, 256M bytes of PC2100 (266MHz) DDR (double data rate) SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM), a 40G-byte hard drive, a 15.4-inch widescreen display, and a 128M-byte Quadro FX Go700 graphics card from Nvidia Corp. for $2,599.

By: DocMemory
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