Irvine-based Toshiba America Information Systems announced today a new laptop and an upgrade to an existing laptop — both making use of Intel technology.

The Satellite U305-S2816 laptop for consumers has a 13.3-inch diagonal widescreen, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Windows Vista Home Premium, 2GBs of memory, a 250GB hard disk drive, 802.11n and a starting price of $1,349.99. The base unit weighs 4.6 pounds.

The Intel chip in the new laptop is called Penryn, which is also the name of a community in Placer County, California and a type of granite, according to former Intel engineer Dileep Bhandarkar. He writes on an Intel blog that the Penryn is the industry’s first 45-nanometer chip, and it delivers the same performance as Intel’s existing Core 2 Duo processors.

Intel was also added to Toshiba’s existing Satellite X205-SLI laptop designed for gamers. Intel’s 45-nanometer processor was added because it generates less heat and its faster CPU processor designed to withstand the long periods of graphics-heavy use common in computer gaming.

The laptop comes with a 17-inch diagonal LCD widescreen monitor, two hard disk drives that total 320GBs, an embedded webcam and microphone, a fingerprint reader, an NVIDIA SLI Dual GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB GDDR3 discrete graphics memory, Bluetooth 2.0, 2GBs of memory with capacity for 4GBs, four built-in Harman Kardon stereo speakers with one sub-woofer and a one-year standard limited warranty. Those features can come packaged as the X205-SLI2 version for $1,999.99 or as the X205-SLI4 $2,499.99 which for $500 more offers a USB HDTV tuner.

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