For a long time, the notion of a "gaming laptop" was a contradiction in terms. After all, everyone knew that notebooks had to compromise on features and performance to achieve maximum portability, right? And even with advances in chips that make it possible for today's laptop PCs to outpace the desktops from 12 minutes ago, you're still faced with awkward controls and a screen that's too small. Am I right?
"Dude, you've been misinformed," is what Toshiba would say to that. The notebooks in the company's Satellite series are designed with gaming in mind, as the P105-S9722 shows. It sports a 17-inch widescreen LCD monitor (1,440 x 900 pixels) and some serious multimedia hardware, including an Nvidia graphics card with 256 MB of memory and dual-core processing power. We're way beyond Pong here.
Not everything's in the specs, though. When it's all said and done, the P105 has one simple mission: Convince me that a laptop can serve as a primary gaming platform. After all, if you're spending 2 Gs on a rig, it damn well better not be a "secondary" one. Let's see how it did.
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