Toshiba has just announced the release of seven new notebooks--two Porteges, three Satellites and two Tecras--catered to SMB, home, education and enterprise users with 18 different configurations to choose from.
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It's features galore with the new Toshiba lineup. With the Portege S100, Toshiba stakes its claim as the world's first thin-and-light with RAID technology where data is duplicated and saved on two drives simultaneously. The only problem here is the optical drive needs to be replaced with the second hard disk. As for the Satellite R10, the notebook marks a new line of convertible tablet PCs which are made to be more affordable.
All use Intel's second-gen Centrino (formerly code-named Sonoma) except for the Portege M300 and Satellite R10. With Sonoma, Toshiba is still sticking with Nvidia to produce several laptops running on the new GeForce Go 6000 series. Among other features, we see a 6-in-1 card reader on two Satellites and one Tecra while the Tecra M3 even includes a DVI port.
At the press launch, we were given a glimpse of Toshiba EasyGuard, a combination of hardware and software features to enhance data security and system protection to its notebooks. Among the features are shock protection with bumpers, spill-resistant keyboards, Execute Disable Bit capability to prevent viruses causing buffer overflow, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and a HDD protection system. However, each of the EasyGuard notebooks does not include every single feature, but rather blends a mixture of a few to suit the end user. The business notebooks--the Portege M300, S100, Tecra M3, S2 and Satellite R10--run on Toshiba EasyGuard.
All the notebooks come with 802.11b/g wireless LAN (except for the Portege M300 where you can opt for just the b standard) and all are due for release this month.
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Model Names |
Availability
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March '05
From S$3,699 |
Pentium M processor 730 or 760 (1.6 or 2.0GHz)--Sonoma
512MB, 60GB, DVD±RW combo
Toshiba EasyGuard
World's first thin-and-light with RAID
14.1 inch
64MB Nvidia GeForce Go 6200
SD card slot
1.99kg w/battery
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Now
S$3,499 |
Pentium M processor ULV 733 (1.1GHz)
256MB, 60GB, DVD/CD-RW combo
Toshiba EasyGuard
802.11b or 802.11b/g wireless LAN support
12.1 inch
Up to 6.4 hours battery life
SD + CF card slot
1.58kg w/battery
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March '05
S$3,399 |
Pentium M processor 725 (1.6GHz)
Convertible tablet PC
256MB, 40GB, DVD/CD-RW combo
Toshiba EasyGuard
Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005
SD card slot
2.78kg w/battery
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March '05
From S$2,799 |
Pentium M processor 750 (1.86GHz)--Sonoma
512MB, 60GB, DVD/CD-RW combo
15.4 widescreen with Clear SuperView
128MB Nvidia GeForce FX Go6600
6-in-1 card reader
(SD/SM/MS/MS PRO/MMC/xD)
2.8kg w/battery
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March '05
S$2,699
(for 740 chip) |
Pentium M processor 740 (1.73GHz)--Sonoma
256MB, 40GB
DVD±RW drive (with DVD+R dual-layer support)
15-inch
64MB ATI Mobility Radeon X300
6-in-1 card reader
(SD/SM/MS/MS PRO/MMC/xD)
2.8kg w/battery
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March '05
S$3,299
(for 740 chip) |
Pentium M processor 740 to 760 (1.73 - 2.0GHz)--Sonoma
512MB, 60GB, DVD/CD-RW combo
Toshiba EasyGuard
64MB Nvidia GeForce Go 6200 or 128MB Nvidia GeForce Go 6600
DVI port, SD card slot
2.26kg w/battery
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March '05
S$2,799
(for 730 chip) |
Pentium M processor 730 or 740 (1.6 or 1.73GHz)--Sonoma
512MB, 60GB, DVD/CD-RW combo
Toshiba EasyGuard
15-inch screen with Clear SuperView
64MB Nvidia GeForce Go6600
6-in-1 card reader
(SD/SM/MS/MS PRO/MMC/xD)
2.8kg w/battery
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