Incredibly thin and light, the Toshiba Portege R500-S5002 manages to squeeze a 12-inch display into a package even lighter than Sony's 11-inch VAIO TZ150. The laptop has excellent battery life and includes an optical drive. Cast in a matte silver, with an ultrathin LED backlit display, the R500 is impressively small, especially for a system with a built-in optical drive.
The R500 manages to fit in a decent-sized keyboard which made for comfortable typing, and even avoids the annoying ultraportable trap of eliminating important keys, squeezing in separate page-up and page-down keys (always important for laptop Web surfing). A fingerprint reader sits between the two mouse buttons, but there's no Webcam.
The 12.1-inch display has a native resolution of 1,280x800. The R500 had a matte screen, which we generally prefer, but the antiglare coating made for terrible off-angle viewing. There is only an SD card slot, instead of the multifunction card readers found in most laptops. But the main complaint of most users was the lack of a mobile broadband antenna, or even the option for adding one.
While we love the idea of solid state hard drives--less heat, no moving parts, low failure rate--they are still too expensive to be taken seriously, adding $550 for swapping in a 64GB SSD drive. But next to LED backlit displays, the move to solid state hard drives is clearly the next big thing in laptop development.
The Portege R500's battery was especially impressive.
Toshiba's much-anticipated Portege R500 may be the best ultraportable laptop available right now, but mobile broadband is conspicuously absent.
Specifications:
The R500 manages to fit in a decent-sized keyboard which made for comfortable typing, and even avoids the annoying ultraportable trap of eliminating important keys, squeezing in separate page-up and page-down keys (always important for laptop Web surfing). A fingerprint reader sits between the two mouse buttons, but there's no Webcam.
The 12.1-inch display has a native resolution of 1,280x800. The R500 had a matte screen, which we generally prefer, but the antiglare coating made for terrible off-angle viewing. There is only an SD card slot, instead of the multifunction card readers found in most laptops. But the main complaint of most users was the lack of a mobile broadband antenna, or even the option for adding one.
While we love the idea of solid state hard drives--less heat, no moving parts, low failure rate--they are still too expensive to be taken seriously, adding $550 for swapping in a 64GB SSD drive. But next to LED backlit displays, the move to solid state hard drives is clearly the next big thing in laptop development.
The Portege R500's battery was especially impressive.
Toshiba's much-anticipated Portege R500 may be the best ultraportable laptop available right now, but mobile broadband is conspicuously absent.
Specifications:
- CPU and Memory Processor Brand Intel
- Processor Class Core 2 Duo
- Processor Speed 1.2 GHz
- Mobile Technology Intel Centrino Duo
- Installed Memory 1 GB
- Maximum Memory 2 GB
- Memory Technology DDR II SDRAM
- Cache Size 2 MB
- Storage Hard Drive Capacity 120 GB
- Included Drives DVD+RW / DVD-RAM
- CD Write Speed 24 X
- CD Rewrite Speed 10 X
- CD Read Speed 24 X
- DVD Read Speed 8 X
- DVD Write Speed 8x (DVD+R)
- Display and Graphics Display Type TFT active matrix
- Graphics Processor Intel GMA 950
- Resolution 1280 x 800 pixels
- Battery Battery Type Lithium ion
- Communications and Networking Bluetooth Yes
- Network Support Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11n (draft), Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g
- Software Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Business
- Connectors Interface Provided VGA, Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T
- Warranty Warranty Information 3 years warranty
- Base Warranty 3 years warranty
- General Product Info Input Devices Keyboard, Touchpad
- Included Sound Card Sound card
- Chassis Color Aluminum silver
- Weight 2.4 lbs
- Also known as Toshiba Portege PPR50U-00V01W, Toshiba Portege, Toshiba PPR50U-00V01W, Toshiba R500-S5002, Toshiba Portege R500-S5002
- Manufacturer Part No. PPR50U-00V01W
- Dimension 1 in x 11.1 in x 8.5 in (HxWxD)
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