Intel doesn’t have the entire CES spotlight to itself when it comes to notebooks. Today Toshiba announced the 15.4-inch Satellite A215 and 17-inch P205D, powered by AMD’s Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology. The three available configurations of the A215 and two P205D models feature a built-in webcam and DVD SuperMulti drive with Labelflash technology for burning discs with high-quality images and text. But as you’ll see there are significant differences as you move up the price ladder for both series.

The $899 and $999 models of the A215 offer 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, ATI Radeon X1200 integrated graphics, and a 15.4-inch display with 1280 x 800-pixel resolution. But the $999 config offers a faster 2.2-GHz CPU (versus 2-GHz). The premium $1,119 version has the same clock speed but bumps up the RAM to 3GB and storage to 300GB while adding ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 graphics and a built-in fingerprint reader.

If you want a bigger screen and more multimedia bang for your buck, step up to the P205D. This system offers a 17-inch TruBrite display and Dolby Sound Room Technology. Although both the $999 and $1,249 configurations have a 2.2-GHz CPU and 1440 x 900-pixel screen, the more expensive model has a bigger hard drive (250 versus 200 GB), more RAM (3GB versus 2GB), and Harman Kardon speakers. You also get discrete graphics with the ATI HD Mobility Radeon HD 2400 GPU and a fingerprint reader. Unfortunately, neither model offers an HD-DVD drive as an option.