The Satellite A series was Toshiba Information Systems's premium consumer line of Satellite laptops. Introduced with the A10 and A20 models in 2003, the A series originally targeted high school and college students and workers of small offices and home offices, before becoming a premium line by the late 2000s.
Prices of models in the series in 2003 ranged from roughly US$800 to US$1200; it sold especially well in among the SOHO segment. Some laptops in the series constituted desktop replacements because of their heft: the A45 was lauded by PC Magazine and PC World for its battery life and multimedia capabilities, especially the quality of its speakers, but PC Magazine wrote that its 7.6-lb weight made the laptop good only “for occasional mobile use”. Other models, such as the A105, were fairly light for the time, at 6 lb, though battery life was observed to have suffered as a consequence, according to PC Magazine. The magazine wrote that the A105 and A75 were particularly adept at home video capture and editing, while the A65 was rated particularly poorly.
The last entry in the series, the A665, had submodels capable of stereoscopic graphics rendering with its special LCD that was compatible with the Nvidia 3D Vision active shutter glasses.
The Satellite A series was superseded by the P series in 2011.
Models
+ Toshiba Satellite A series models Modelno. TFT displaydiagonal size(in.) Processor Chipset Clock speed(GHz) GraphicsRAMStorageNetworkingAudioOperating system Toshibadatasheet A10-S100 15.0 Intel Mobile Celeron Intel 852GM 2.50 Intel 852GM @ 32 MB256 MB SODIMM PC2100 DDR (max. 1024 MB)40 GB (4200 RPM) HDD V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN Analog Devices AD1981 with Sound Blaster Pro compatibility and built-in stereo speakers Windows XP Home (A10-S1001) Windows XP Pro (A10-S100 / A10-S100 SB) A10-S100 A10-S127 15.0 2.00 30 GB (4200 RPM) HDD V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN (802.11b) Windows XP Pro (A10-S127) Windows XP Home (A10-S128) A10-S127 A10-S129 15.0 2.40 40 GB (4200 RPM) HDD V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN Windows XP Pro (A10-S129) Windows XP Home (A10-S1291) A10-S129 A10-S167 15.0 Intel Mobile Pentium 4 2.20 30 GB (4200 RPM) HDD V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN (802.11b) A10-S167 A10-S169 15.0 40 GB (4200 RPM) HDD V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN A10-S169 A10-S177 15.0 V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN (802.11b) A10-S177 A15-S127 15.0 Intel Celeron 2.00 30 GB (4200 RPM) HDD A15-S127 A15-S129 15.0 Intel Celeron 2.40 40 GB (4200 RPM) HDD V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN A15-S129 A15-S157 15.0 Intel Celeron 2.20 V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN (802.11b) A15-S157 A15-S1292 15.0 Intel Celeron 2.40 30 GB (4200 RPM) HDD V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN A15-S1292 A20-S207 15.4 XGA Intel Pentium 4 2660 2.66 Trident CyberBlade XP2 @ 32 MB40 GB (4200 RPM) HDD V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN (802.11b)Analog Devices AD1981B with built-in stereo speakers A20-S207 A20-S259 15.0 V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN (802.11g) A20-S259 A25-S207 15.0 V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN (802.11b) A25-S207 A25-S2792 15.0 Intel Pentium 4 3060 3.06 80 GB (4200 RPM) HDD V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN (802.11g) A25-S2792 A25-S279 15.0 Intel Pentium 4 2800 2.80 60 GB (4200 RPM) HDD A25-S279 A25-S307 15.0 V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN Wireless LAN (802.11a/b) A25-S307 A35-S159 15.0 Intel Mobile Pentium 4 2.30 Intel 852GM @ 32 MB V.92/56K modem 10/100 Ethernet LAN