It’s Toshiba’s newest small notebook, “the world’s thinnest notebook series with an integrated optical drive”, which so far hasn’t made it to any of the shops here in Sevilla. Isn’t it gorgeous???
The 0.77-inches thin 2.4-pound Toshiba Portege R500 has 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 ultra-low voltage processor with 1.20GHz clock speed, 2MB L2 cache, and 533MHz front-side bus. This ultra-portable is based on Mobile Intel 945GMS Express chipset with the integrated Graphic Media Accelerator 950, which manages a 12.1-inch 1280×800 LED backlight “highbrightness” display. The R500 supports up to 2GB of DDR2 system memory and comes with 120GB 5400rpm SATA hard disk drive. A mentioned ultra-thin 7mm optical drive is a DVD burner.
Toshiba Portege R500 has Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (802.11a/g/n), Gigabit Ethernet and Bluetooth, but it doesn’t include a 56k modem. Toshiba’s new ultra-portable has PCMCIA card slot, Secure Digital slot, three USB ports, VGA output, Firewire, and a fingerprint reader.
Hmmm … not sure I’d ever need a fingerprint reader, but you never know. So as soon as I get that fab new job happening (c’mon guys, I’m counting on you) , the one that requires me to have an ultra-portable super-sleek notebook with me at all times, I’m calling up Toshiba.
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we use a fingerprint reader at the gimcrack to clock on and off.
betcha didn’t know we were so advanced with our technology 🙂
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Wow, the gimcrack is definitely on the cutting edge of … something or other. I guess it’s a handy (geddit?) control to protect both staff and patients.
I suppose I could use the new laptop to control my students, so that nobody sneaks in to class unawares… 😉
Really just looking for excuses to buy one … and after I find the right excuse I’ll have to find the money. But wouldn’t it be wonderful to have one of these babies!
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eeeep, no it’s for staff only. you don’t think we’d be putting our ungloved fingers anywhere near something the patients could touch do you?
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Oooh, me wantssssss. We wants it, precious, we does!
The good thing about cancer is (now there’s a sentence you don’t write often) that God owes you. So buy a lottery ticket. What the hell!
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Isn’t it fabulous?
As you know, I got to see one in person for the first time yesteday – and even got to pick it up and hold it! It weighed almost nothing at all. So tiny and perfect.
Maybe I will buy a lottery ticket today …
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