The ultrabooks keep coming at IFA 2011. Toshiba’s entry into the space features a extremely light chassis — yes, even lighter than either the MacBook Air or the Acer Aspire S3. More »
We do love a Portege laptop around these parts, and Toshiba’s lopped a bit more weight off this latest R830 series. Weighing 1.4kg and measuring shy of an inch thick, the R830 is for business users, but there’ll also be four models in the R835 consumer series. More »
All those ultraportables using Intel’s ULV Core processors just got taken to school: Toshiba’s Portégé R700 is as light as a MacBook Air, as powerful as a MacBook Pro, and measures an inch thick with a DVD drive. Standard. More »
Toshiba’s Portégé series has been gifted a new model, if leaks from Italy are anything to go by. It’s not a super light R600-type model, with the Portégé name also being applied to the convertible M range too. More »
Just last summer, Toshiba’s Portege R500 was the first laptop with a 128GB SSD. A year later, Toshiba’s Portege R600 is the world’s first 512GB SSD lappie. So for this one moment, Toshiba is on the top of the world. More »
If you were looking on with envy at the Dynabook SS-RX2 that Toshiba announced overnight and its 512GB SSD, then you’ll be happy to know that Toshiba are bringing the 512GB SSD option to their awesome Portégé R600 next month. More »
On basically the worst day of the year to launch a new notebook, Toshiba’s ultraportable Portégé R600 actually holds its own, though not quite as comely as Voodoo’s Envy, but you do get a bona-fide DVD-SuperMulti drive in the world’s lightest computer with two spindles. The successor to Toshiba’s formerly most awesome laptop, the
That’s a lot of numbers in the headline. Just know that the Toshiba Portege R500–an acclaimed 12.1″ ultraportable–has officially gotten the rumoured upgrade to a 128GB solid state hard drive. That’s twice the SSD storage we see in the Lenovo X300 or the MacBook Air. Still priced at US$2,999, the new 2.4-pound Portege R500-S5007V also features a 1.33GHz Core 2 Duo processor, DVD burner, 2GB RAM, and plenty of other goodies. For the full details, here’s the mega press release:
From the heavyweight Qosmio G40, to the ultralight Portege R500. 12.1-inches, 19.5mm thin, and under 1kg – complete with a 64GB SSD storage option instead of a hard disk.
You also get a DVD writer built-in (only does single layer discs), LED backlight, 802.11n (no built-in HSDPA like in the US, not yet anyway), Bluetooth, and using the ultra-low voltage Core 2 Duo the R500 claims a battery life around 12.5 hours.
$3300 for the 120GB HDD model, or $4125 for the 64GB SSD. -Seamus Byrne More »
