Satellite A series

Satellite A300
Developer	Toshiba Information Systems Corporation
Type	Laptop
Release date	2003 (2003)
Lifespan	2003–2010
Discontinued	2010 (2010)

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.^[1][2]

Prices of models in the series in 2003 ranged from roughly US$800 to US$1200;^[3][4] it sold especially well in among the SOHO segment.^[5] 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".^[6][7] 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.^[8] The magazine wrote that the A105 and A75 were particularly adept at home video capture and editing,^[8][9] while the A65 was rated particularly poorly.^[10][11]

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.^[12]

The A series was superseded by the P series in 2011.^[13]