Features and Specs

Intel's newest Pentium M ultra-low voltage line of chips,Toshiba Laptop Battery packaged with the 'Centrino' integrated wireless

architecture, Toshiba Satellite A100 Battery, Toshiba Satellite A70 Battery, Toshiba Satellite A75 Battery,finally enabled laptop manufacturers to make viable ultra-portable systems based on the Pentium 4 CPU.

The Pentium M's tiny profile and better performance/power usage ratio has brought the world of tiny laptops much

closer to the mainstream.

The VAIO VGN-T140P/L sports a 1.10GHz Pentium M '733' Ultra low voltage processor. Based on a 90nm process, this

chip uses a 400Mhz FSB and like all 90nm process Pentium M chips, comes equipped with 2MB of level 2 cache memory.

The Pentium M is the fastest currently available in Intel's 'ultra low voltage' mobile line and should provide

plenty of grunt for this tiny laptop.

Like other Pentium M processors,Toshiba Satellite A75 Battery, the clock speed does not truly indicate the amount of work it can do relative to

traditional desktop processors, so don't let that scare you off. The Pentium M is the reason that Intel decided to

drop the Gigahertz measurements from its processors and switched to a meaningless 'Performance Rating' figure

instead.

The Intel 855GME chipset provides connectivity with the Centrino architecture. The ICH4-M Southbridge handles the

integrated video courtesy of Intel's Extreme Graphics 2 chip, and a fairly standard array of I/O abilities which

we'll detail a bit later. As you would expect, it also supports a good set of power saving abilities which work in

concert with the processor to save precious battery life, Toshiba Satellite A70 Battery,typically by dropping processing speed down substantially

when on batteries. More on this later also.

The VAIO notebook ships with 512MB of DDR memory, 64MB of which is shared with the onboard video. The memory can be

expanded up to 1GB in total,Toshiba Satellite A100 Battery, Toshiba Satellite A70 Battery, Toshiba Satellite A75 Battery, though there is only one SODIMM socket. A smallish 4200RPM 40GB hard drive provides

storage. The Intel Extreme Graphics 2 engine provides excellent image quality and DVD playback, along with some

(mostly theoretical) 3D support.

For older 3D games (from a few years ago) it should be adequate, for current games it is extremely poor. This VAIO

is not intended to be a portable gaming machine, so don't even bother trying to use it for that.

The Lithium-Ion battery snaps into the rear of the notebook (model VGP-BPS3),Toshiba Satellite A100 Battery, and carries a capacity of 7.4V /

6600mAH. It weighs about 0.66 pounds, and according to Sony figures, will offer a run time of about 4-8.5 hours with

a full charge