Toshiba Announces Ultra Thin & Light Laptop With 128GB SSD Hard Drive
June 18th, 2008 1:23 PM | by Christen da Costa
Toshiba announced its ultra portable laptop today. Called the Portege R500-S5007V, the laptop weighs just 2.4lbs (the Macbook Air weighs 3lbs and the Lenevo Thinkpad X300 2.94lbs) and measures a mere 0.77-inch at its thinnest point. To achieve optimal battery performance and weight they’ve added a 128GB solid state hard drive and a 12.1-inch LED powered screen that can shutdown its backlighting ‘by reflecting the sun’s ray to illuminate the screen’.
Expect the new light weight Portege to cost $3,000 and include an Intel Core 2 Duo U7700 processor at 1.33GHz with 2Mb of cache, and 2GB of RAM. Unlike the Macbook Air it will include a read and rewrite CD/DVD drive and the other standard features you’d expect from a laptop of tomorrow.
The Portege R500-S5007V is expected to ship the 3rd quarter of 2008 with geographical availability unknown.
[NYTimes]
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August 21st, 2008 at 4:30 am
Wow that looks like a good one to spend money. I gues it can’t compete with MacBook Air or IBM X300. I’ve made a list of my favorite light and slim laptops and this one may enter the list.
http://www.techtoyboy.com/2008/06/27/top-5-light-and-slim-laptops/