Toshiba’s voiced more than sufficient laptops for us in a past week, though a 13.3-inch Portégé R700 is ranking flattering tall up there upon the favorite list. The ultraportable has gotten the finish redesign during the core — there’s a new magnesium chassis that’s been re-engineered with an internal honeycomb steel that aims to waste feverishness, as good as a brand-new chiclet style set of keys. Yet, notwithstanding the often metal setup and onboard optical drive, it measures reduction than an in. thick as well as only weighs 3 pounds — yep, Toshiba is in fact claiming it’s a lightest 13.3-inch laptop ever. Rather suddenly, it doesn’t duck out with ultra-low voltage energy — instead there will be Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 versions. And a pricing is really interesting — a Core i3 version with 4GB of IMPEL and the 500GB hard drive will retail for $999, a i5 model with the 320GB 7,200rpm drive for $1,299, and an i7 / 128GB SSD combo for $1,599. And there will also be the blue colored Best Buy version with the Core i3 CPU, 4GB of RAM, as well as the 500GB hard drive for $899. Told you it was taking flight to the tip of our list. These bad boys begin shipping today, but if you need a little more info prior to defeat out the plastic, hit the gallery next and a press release after a mangle. Toshiba Portg R700 hands-on

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Show full PR textToshiba Introduces World’s Lightest 13.3-Inch Full-Performance Ultraportable Laptop With Integrated DVD Drive

25th Anniversary Edition Portégé R700 Features New Airflow Cooling Technology as well as Honeycomb Rib Structure, Allowing for Full-Voltage Processor Performance in Ultraportable Form Factor

IRVINE, Calif. – June 21, 2010 – Building upon a long history of attention firsts and ultraportable laptop innovations, Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced the Portégé® R700, a U.S chronicle of a world’s lightest 13.3-inch full-performance ultraportable laptop with an integrated DVD drive1. The Portégé R700 provides business users with rare performance as well as continuance in a highly mobile product with prices starting underneath $1,000.

With the starting weight of just 3 pounds2 as well as about a single in. thin, the Portégé R700 is means to await the latest Intel® Core™ family of full-powered processors as a outcome of brand-new Airflow Cooling Technology. This innovative brand-new cooling complement co-developed by Toshiba and Intel uses destined streams of uninformed air to cold a heat-generating components so commercial operation users can get a opening, mobility and longer battery life they need to stay prolific upon a go.

The Portégé R700 also facilities a light, nonetheless permanent magnesium amalgamate surrounding reinforced with the brand-new honeycomb rib pattern incorporated within a palm rests as well as base of a laptop. Similar to record used in aerospace building a whole, this structural enhancement to a laptop provides increasing acerbity as well as continuance.

The laptop also features Toshiba’s EasyGuard® Technology, that helps strengthen the laptop from jolts, spills and theft. This includes combined protection around complement components, a Hard Drive Impact Sensor as well as spill-resistant set of keys as well as the host of program that invariably checks the opening and functionality of the complement.

“Portégé ultraportable laptops have been not usually the proof of Toshiba’s higher engineering as well as craftsmanship, but our ability to innovate to meet the final of businesses,” pronounced Carl Pinto, clamp president of product development, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division. “The Portégé R700 delivers a ultimate mobile knowledge during breakthrough prices that businesses have been watchful for, on condition that both opening as well as battery holdup within an intensely skinny as well as light, nonetheless permanent form cause but compromising pass facilities such as an integrated DVD drive.”

With an all-new sophisticated design that will spin heads in a boardroom, a Portégé R700 facilities the 13.3-inch erratic HD widescreen LED-backlit display3, the reward lifted tile keyboard and a far-reaching TouchPad™ with customizable Multi-touch Control which creates typing as well as navigation easy as well as gentle.

Equipped with Windows® 7 Professional, the laptops embody the resources of facilities as well as ports compulsory by commercial operation users, including spacious tough drives, fast DDR3 IMPEL, a capability to wharf to the pier replicator, an ExpressCard™ container, an eSATA/USB combo pier with Sleep-and-Charge4, as well as a built-in DVD SuperMulti drive and Webcam. The Portégé R700 additionally features a high-capacity six-cell battery with a battery holdup rating of up to 8.5 hours5. An discretionary nine-cell battery which can remain upon when docked will enlarge the battery holdup rating up to 12.5 hours.
A new High-Speed Port Replicator for the Portégé R700 (sold alone for $199.00 MSRP6) provides quick entrance to the desktop surroundings and eliminates a con of connecting mixed cables. The pier replicator facilities the horde of ports, together with dual ultrafast USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet as good as Line-In/Line-Out audio ports, HDMI, RGB and Serial connectors.

“Business PC buyers wish lighter, thinner cover designs, though the research shows which they aren’t peaceful to concede on opening and facilities to get to those not as big sizes,” pronounced Bob O’Donnell, clamp boss, Clients and Displays research at IDC. “Integrating high-performance CPUs and an visual drive, whilst still progressing the good cost indicate, have been pass to creation these lighter notebook designs some-more successful in a marketplace.”

The laptop will be accessible in 3 configurations: a Portégé R700-S1310 features a Intel Core i3 processor7 as well as the 500GB8 tough drive for $999.00 MSRP. The Portégé R700-S1320 features a Intel Core i5-520M processor and a high-speed 320GB 7200RPM hard drive for $1,299.00 MSRP. The Portégé R700-S1330 features a absolute Intel Core i7-620M processor as well as the 128GB plain state drive9 for $1,599.00 MSRP. All three configurations come with 4GB DDR3 memory10 as well as a Standard Three-Year International Limited Warranty11.

Consumer Model Also Available
Toshiba will additionally suggest the consumer edition of the laptop, a Portégé R705. Sold to one side at Best Buy for $889.99 MSRP, a laptop will underline the Magnesium Blue cover and will be powered by a Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory as well as the 500GB tough drive. In addition, a Portégé R705 will underline Intel Wireless Display for wirelessly connecting the laptop to a big shade HDTV. The Portégé R705 will not include ExpressCard or advancing capabilities.
EPEAT Gold-rated Eco-conscious Design

The Portégé R700 is written to be environmentally unwavering with power-efficient, mercury-free LED backlit arrangement, meets the severe mandate of the Energy Star® 5.0 standard as well as achieved industry-leading Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT®) Gold status. The laptop is also RoHS concordant, effectively reducing a environmental stroke by restricting the use of lead, mercury, cadmium and sure alternative hazardous substances.

Availability
Portégé R700 commercial operation laptops will be accessible currently through name Toshiba Preferred Partner Program resellers, e-tailers and directly at toshibadirect.com.

The Portégé R705 will be accessible during Best Buy stores nationwide on June 27, 2010.
Detailed specifications can be found at laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/portege/R700
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About Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (TAIS)
Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TAIS is comprised of 4 business units: Digital Products Division, Imaging Systems Division, Storage Device Division, as well as Telecommunication Systems Division. Together, these divisions provide mobile products as well as solutions, including industry heading moveable computers; imaging products for a confidence, healing as well as production markets; storage products for automotive, mechanism as well as consumer wiring applications; and telephony apparatus and compared applications.

TAIS provides sales, selling as well as services for its far-reaching range of report products in the United States and Latin America. TAIS is an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a auxiliary of Toshiba Corporation. Toshiba Corporation is a universe personality as well as dignitary in high technology, the diversified manufacturer and marketer of modernized electronic as well as electrical products. These products camber from report & communications systems; digital consumer products; electronic inclination as well as components; as good as power systems together with nuclear appetite; industrial as well as amicable infrastructure systems; and home appliances. Toshiba was founded in 1875, as well as currently operates the tellurian network of some-more than 740 companies, with 204,000 employees worldwide as well as annual sales surpassing $68 billion (6.3 Trillion Yen). For more report upon Toshiba revisit www.toshiba.com.
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1 As of June 21, 2010.
2 Weight. Weight may vary. See Weight Legal Footnote at www.info.toshiba.com
3 Display. Any tiny bright dots which may appear upon your arrangement are an intrinsic evil of a skinny movie transistors production technology. See Display Legal Footnote during www.info.toshiba.com
4 The “USB Sleep & Charge duty” may not work with sure external devices even if they are agreeable with a USB specification. In those cases, spin a energy of the mechanism UPON to charge a device.
5 Measured by MobileMark® Productivity 2007 for comparison purposes only. Actual battery life may change. See Battery Life Rating Legal Footnote during www.info.toshiba.com
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8 Hard Disk Drive Capacity. Hard drive genius might change. 1 Gigabyte (GB) equates to 109 = 1,000,000,000 bytes using powers of 10. See Hard Disk Drive Capacity Legal Footnote during www.info.toshiba.com
9 Solid State Drive Capacity. Drive genius may vary. One Gigabyte (GB) equates to 109 = 1,000,000,000 bytes using powers of 10. See Solid State Drive Capacity Legal Footnote at www.info.toshiba.com
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