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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
We wouldn't want to be caught on a coast-to-coast flight with the Toshiba Satellite P15-S420 and a big presentation to finish before landing. This large, 3-GHz Pentium 4-equipped notebook had a battery life of just an hour and a half on one charge--not a ringing endorsement of its survival skills away from an outlet.
The P15-S420's desktop processor helped it post an average PC WorldBench 4 score of 118, which is 5 percent slower than the average score of 125 for notebooks we've tested with the mobile Pentium M chip.
A handsome 2-inch-tall notebook, the P15-S420 features a...