Toshiba Portégé R500 Series

The Portégé R500 series from Toshiba is a line of extremely small and lightweight laptops, weighing at 2.4 lbs. Models features a 12.1" display screen with 1200x800 resolution, which is so durable that it is intentionally designed to be flexed and twisted without damage. There are three USB ports, a PC Card slot and an SDHC slot. The keyboard is large and with spaced-out buttons, and features a shortcut button to the Toshiba Assist application for quick access to a variety of function from bluetooth connectivity to outputting to external displays. There is also a seperate button to control screen backlight intensity. The Toshiba Portégé R500 series also comes with a DVD Supermulti drive, iLink and Bluetooth V2.0.

Toshiba Portégé R500 Series 1
MSRP $1,549 - $2,149
Release date June, 2007
Brand Toshiba
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Pros:
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Very few compromises despite the small size
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Full sized keyboard
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Built-in optical drive, which is rare for this thinness
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Cons:
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Screen and keyboard have flex which can be disconcerting
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Optical drive can get in the way of the PC card slot
+1agreedisagree


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Features

  • Intel 965 Chipset
  • Mobile Intel Express 950GM integrated graphics
  • 12.1" screen, 1200x800 resolution
  • less than 1" thick
  • built-in optical drive
  • VGA out
  • Ports: USB x 3, mini-Firewire, SD Card

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This report was started August 16, 2008 at 1:51 pm by mkam, with the last edit occurring December 9, 2008 at 3:29 pm by Omar
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*mba28 @ 11/3/2008 4:48:41 AM

  • agreed: "Screen and keyboard have flex which can be disconcerting "
  • agreed: "Built-in optical drive, which is rare for this thinness "
  • agreed: "Full sized keyboard "
  • agreed: "Very few compromises despite the small size "

*Omar @ 9/3/2008 12:54:51 PM

*Omar @ 9/3/2008 12:30:34 PM

  • new pro/con: Built-in optical drive, which is rare for this thinness
  • new pro/con: Full sized keyboard
  • new pro/con: Very few compromises despite the small size
  • new pro/con: Optical drive can get in the way of the PC card slot
  • new pro/con: Screen and keyboard have flex which can be disconcerting
  • added a link R500 hands-on video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gKMchnIfWM...
  • edited the description
  • updated the features
  • changed the thumbnail

*mkam @ 8/31/2008 10:52:24 AM

*mkam @ 8/16/2008 1:51:22 PM

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