With Ivy Bridge CPUs on the way, PC makers are already revealing their offers

Apr 10, 2012 14:36 GMT  ·  By

New tablets are all well and good, but Toshiba has been up to more than just new mobile devices running Android 4.0. In fact, it has a bunch of new laptops on the way too.

We'll get the real powerhouses out of the way first: the Qosmio X875 and the Z875 3D, both based on Ivy Bridge CPUs and 3GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 670M GPUs.

With 17.3-inch 1,600 x 900 displays (1,920 x 1,080 3D panel on the X875 3D), they have Harman Kardon Speakers, Blu-ray units, four USB ports, "Black Widow" styling and prices of $1,299 to $2,499, depending on storage, memory, graphics options, etc.

Sales will commence on June 24, which is quite far off, but it makes sense, knowing that Intel's mobile Ivy Bridge units will come out around that time themselves. Go here to learn more about them.

Now we can get to the Satellite laptops, and there are many of them, to put it lightly.

The Satellite L800 and C800 are the ones that most people should be looking at, being mainstream-level and low-end, respectively.

They measure 14, 15.6 or 17.3 inches in diagonal and have various Ivy Bridge CPU, memory, storage configurations, plus HDMI, HD webcams, Blu-ray drives and many possible colors.

Shipments will start only in the third quarter, but the starting prices of $449.99 and $399.99 (probably just as many Euro) are well worth waiting for, one might argue.

Finally, there's the Satellite P800 and Satellite S800 mobile personal computers, which have the same screen size possibilities as above.

Whatever CPU is selected, it gets an NVIDIA GeForce 630M GPU as partner or a comparable AMD discrete graphics card.

It is also interesting to note that the S800 can have an AMD processor instead of an Intel one.

Like the other Satellite laptops, the P800 and S800 will start shipping in the third quarter, for $799.99 / $699.99.