Toshiba made use of Taiwan’s Computex expo recently to make public the Portégé R500, claiming it one of the most portable comprehensive notebooks ever. The system is one of the slimmest ever to comprise an optical drive, measuring 0.77 inches at its thinnest due to an ultra-thin DVD rewriter and upgrading in slimming down the internal components; this comes with no compromising power.
The company also makes a note of that the utilization of a 64GB solid-state hard drive option — also a first for notebooks — brings the weight down to as little as 1.86 pounds with each characteristic untouched. The 12-inch widescreen additional stands for a break-through by making use of a transreflective LCDbattery life. Hitting Japan as the Dyna-Book SS RX1, the North American Portégé R500 will be shipped in two models. A $1,999 base version features a 1.2GHz ultra-low voltage Core 2 Duo
The DynaBook version of the notebook is going to get to stores first, hitting Japan on June 22nd. North American purchasers will get the system in July, 1GB of memory, a 120GB conventional hard disk, and 802.11n Wi-Fi support making use of Windows XP Professional; a 2nd version at $2,149 is going to be rolled out with identical hardware but utilize Vista Business. A retail version of the XP system will also get its way to stores.
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I love this notebook, the Toshiba R500 has been great. I actually have the R500-S5004 which was a monumental task to find a place that had in stock. If you’re looking for the Toshiba R500-S5001X , I would suggest firstworldtech.com Toshiba R500-S5001X . This is the place that helped me get mine. They have free shipping, and are an Authorized Toshiba Dealer so you get the 3 year included warranty. Price is also the best too!
Also, the Toshba R500’s have a lo-jack anti-theft system. Also wireless N built-in . Something most reviews I’ve seen don’t mention.
Oops, forgot the right link! R500-S5001X here. =)