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Toshiba's latest addition to its business-aimed Satellite Pro range seems an oddity.
For here we have a notebook that, at 2.9kg, isn't particularly mobile, offers just two hours of battery life and hasn't really got enough juice to make it a desktop replacement.
At its heart is an Intel Pentium M processor 740 running at 1.73GHz.
Augmented by 512MB of Ram, it managed to gain an overall Sysmark 2004 SE score of 143 and a PCmark05 rating of 2,120 - far from jaw-dropping, but it will be fine running office software and most business-type applications.
Graphics are another matter though, with the Ati Radeon X600SE card achieving just 15fps (frames per second) in Far Cry.
Although our tests had all the detail settings switched on to max, it's still going to be pedestrian with most switched off. 3Dmark05 wouldn't even run. However, we can't complain too much as gaming isn't this notebook's forte.
As previously mentioned, the 128 minute battery life is disappointing, especially considering there's a 4000mAh battery slotted into the back that, in other notebooks, we've seen run for five hours.
Where it scores highly is in design. It's extremely well built, with a hard wearing, solid chassis and robust keys. Two touchpad buttons are woven into a rubberised strip and a lip beneath houses Harman Kardon speakers, which perform well.
It may weigh almost 3kg, but there's no denying Toshiba has made this notebook with some quality parts. The 15.4in Trubrite Widescreen is a nice piece of work too, displaying WXGA resolutions very clearly indeed.
A 60GB hard disk seems a little paltry for a notebook of this price, especially when you examine what consumer notebooks offer for the same price.
Despite the excellent build quality, we find it hard to recommend the Satellite Pro M70. It's no desktop replacement and the battery life is poor.
Performance:
Sysmark 2004 SE: 143
PCmark05: 2,120
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