With its Blu-ray optical drive and Core i7 CPU, the Toshiba Satellite P775-S7320 ($849.99 at Best Buy) is well equipped to handle most of your entertainment and home productivity needs. It also offers the latest in wireless and USB 3.0 connectivity, but its lack of a 1080p screen and mediocre graphics capabilities prevent it from being a killer multimedia laptop.
Design
The P775-S7320 has the same Fusion X2 Platinum finish as its predecessor, the Toshiba Satellite P775-S7215. It has a textured lid and wrist rest that are relatively smudge resistant and sports a bold, shiny silver Toshiba logo in the center of the lid. At 6.6 pounds it's lighter than most 17-inch laptops, including the 7.15-pound Dell Inspiron 17R-3530DBK and 7-pound HP Pavilion dv7-6143cl ($999.99 list, 4 stars).
Under the lid sits a 17.3-inch widescreen display with a webcam embedded in the upper bezel. The camera works with the pre-installed Toshiba Face Recognition utility to add an extra layer of security. The display has a reflective glossy coating, but delivers a very bright picture with good color reproduction. Unfortunately, its 1600-by-900 resolution prevents it from displaying HD content in 1080p (full HD), but it does a good job with 720p video. If 1080p is a must, the Sony VAIO VPC-F215FX/BI ($1,799 direct, 4 stars) has it and does 3D as well, but it's more than double the price of the P775-S7320.
The chiclet-style keyboard is firm and comfortable and has a dedicated number pad on the right. Above it are backlit touch sensitive buttons for volume control and mute, play and pause, and Wi-Fi on/off. There's also a button that turns off the button's backlighting, and another that launches Toshiba's eco utility, which allows you to set power saving parameters and view a real-time power usage chart. Below the keyboard is a lightly textured multi-gesture touchpad with a slice of backlit trim at the top and two quiet mouse buttons on the bottom.
Features
Port selection is decent but not great; you get HDMI and VGA video outputs, but only one of the three USB ports is of the speedy 3.0 variety, and there's no eSATA port. The Dell Inspiron 17R (I17RN-3530DBK), on the other hand, has two USB 3.0 ports and an eSATA port. The P775-S7320 doesn't have Bluetooth, like the dv7-6143cl, but it does have WiMAX 4G broadband and WiDi 2.0 (wireless HDMI) capabilities, as well as 802.11n Wi-Fi. Keep in mind that you'll need a Netgear Push2TV receiver ($99) hooked up to your external display or HDTV to use the WiDi 2.0 feature.
The P775-S7320 comes with a 750GB hard drive loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium and a big helping of Toshiba software and utilities. In addition to the above mentioned face recognition software and eco utility, you get a webcam app, Blu-ray and DVD video players, a recovery media creator, a couple of diagnostic and health monitoring tools, a hard drive protection utility, and more. If you want to expand upon the one-year manufacturer's warranty covering parts and labor warranty Best Buy offers a two-year plan ($159.99) that covers costs for problems due to normal wear and tear, battery replacement, and power surges. For $289.99 you get all of the above with two years of accidental protection for spills and drops.
Performance
The P775-S7320 is configured with Intel's 2.20GHz Core i7-2670QM processor and 6GB of system memory, a combination that yielded impressive results on most of our benchmark tests. Its PCMark 7 score of 2,400 was a bit higher than the Dell I17RN-3530DBK (2,368) and HP dv7-6143cl (2,302) thanks to a slightly faster CPU. Its Cinebench R11.5 score of 5.28 was higher as well, for the same reason. The P775-S7320 had some trouble with our Photoshop CS5 test, requiring 4 minutes 54 seconds to complete the tasks. The HP dv7-6143cl needed 3:52 seconds, and the Dell I17RN-3530DBK finished in 3:53.
It finished the Handbrake multimedia test in 1:56, behind the dv7-6143cl (1:37) and Inspiron 17R (1:41), but ahead of the Toshiba Qosmio X775-3DV78 ($1,899.99 list, 3 stars) (2:07) and Acer Aspire AS8950G-9839 ($1,499.99 street, 4 stars) (2:08).
The P775-S7320 uses Intel's integrated HD Graphics 3000 GPU as its graphics engine, which means it can handle light graphics duty, but doesn't have the chops to run complex games. It scored 2,191 on the 3DMark 06 DirectX 9 benchmark test while running at its native (1600-by-900) resolution, while the dv7-6143cl, driven by an AMD Radeon HD 6770M GPU, scored 8,747. The Qosmio (11,903) blew them both away with its Nvidia GeForce GTX560M. On our Lost Planet 2 DirectX 9 gaming benchmark, the P775-S7320 managed just 20.1 fps while running at a low resolution (1024-by-768), which pales in comparison to the HP dv7-6143cl (72.9 fps), and the Toshiba Qosmio (79 fps).
The P775-S7320's 6-cell battery lasted a decent 5 hours 4 minutes on MobileMark 2007, outlasting the Dell I17RN-3530DBK by 24 minutes (4:40). Still, it couldn't match the dv7-6143cl's time of 9:13. The Qosmio came in dead last with a miserable time of 49 minutes.
The Toshiba Satellite P775-S7320 is worth considering if you're in the market for a big screen laptop with Core i7 power and a Blu-ray player. Granted, the 17.3-inch display is nice, but it would be even nicer if it could display full-blown HD content at 1080p. Despite its less than stellar Photoshop score it has more than enough power to make short work of your productivity and multimedia workload, and a relatively light chassis makes it a bit more portable than most desktop replacements. That said, the P775-S7320 can't match the gaming prowess of our current Editors' Choice, the HP Pavilion dv7-6143cl, which offers a discrete graphics card and a whopping nine-hour battery life.
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