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Toshiba names new HD DVD laptops

By Tony Smith
Published Tuesday 19th June 2007 16:07 GMT

Toshiba has re-iterated its plan to build HD DVD drives into a range of laptops - well, three at least. And you'll have to wait a while to get your hands on one: they're not due to go on sale until the back-to-school sales period in Q3 - think August.

Toshiba Satellite P205 - Matrix HD DVD image courtesy Warner
Toshiba's Satellite P205: HD DVD coming soon

The machines getting HD DVD drives - read-only units, we hasten to add - are the Satellite P205, Satellite X205 and the Qosmio F45, Toshiba's US operation said today. Meanwhile, the Qosmio G45 will get the HD DVD-R drive Toshiba showed off (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/10/tosh_demos_hd_dvd-r_laptop/) in January this year.

Toshiba revealed its plan to push HD DVD further into mainstream computing (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/19/more_toshiba_laptops_with_hddvd/) in March at the CeBIT show, though it didn't provide any details.

The P205, X205 and G45 will all sport 17in screens, while the F45 is a 15.4-incher. All four laptops will incoporate HDMI ports to allow them to be hooked up to HDTVs - 1080p screens in the case of the G45; 1080i for the rest.

Toshiba said it would detail pricing closer to launch, but it did say the machines' prices will fall between $1449 and $3199.

Earlier this month, Toshiba showed off the first laptop-friendly HD DVD-RW drive (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/06/06/toshiba_slim_hddvd-rw_drive/).