Toshiba Ultra Slim SelectBay DVD SuperMulti Drive

Advantages: very slim, very light, 3 year guarantee, long battery life
Disadvantages: Pricey (average specifications for a very high price)

...The Portege R500 is a new range of ultra-thin laptops by Toshiba. This laptop consists of a 12" (30 cm) wide screen display with an integrated optical drive. With the addition of the optical drive Toshiba's R500 range have become the thinnest laptops in the world which feature 7mm super-slim DVD SuperMulti drives. The Toshiba Portege R500-100 is one of many new Toshiba laptops that weigh just under 1 kilogram (0.98 kg to be exact). You will get an all day battery life, all day battery life meaning up to 8 hours depending on what you do on the laptop. For example. If you play the next generation of video games, then obviously a lot of processing power is required, which most definitely requires a large amount of electrical energy in a fairly small period of time. With this laptop you have a Toshiba standard guarantee of 3 years, which... Read review

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Advantages: Light and slim
Disadvantages: Graphics memory is deducted from the RAM

...of the box. The best thing about this laptop is the fact that the CD drive has a CD-R/RW; DVD-R/RW +/- meaning that the drive can burn data onto duel layer DVD's that now support up to 8GBs and that is a lot of data. The General Specs of this laptop is:- 15" screen 40GB hard Disc Drive 256mb Ram 64MB ATI Radeon® Xpress 200M 802.11bg Wireless (1Mbps - 54Mbps) DVD-CDRW or DVD-SuperMulti (Dual Layer) Intel Celeron M Processor chip set 370 clocking at 1.6GHz... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, Powerfull, Stylish design, Wireless, Lowest priced notebook relesaed by Toshiba!!!
Disadvantages: Sligthly small screen compared to others!!

...Toshiba Satellite Pro A100-830 I aquired one of these laptops as a Christmas present, and I was presently suprised at how fast this laptop was! It was incredibley easy to set up and I had finished the general setup and was downloading the updates within half an hour of opening the box! -Features- --Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 - 1.66GHz (x2), 667MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache --RAM: 512MB DDR2-533MHz --Hard Drive: 80GB Serial ATA 5400rpm --Screen: 15.4" Widescreen TruBrite TFT (1280x800 - 16:10) --Optical Drive: DVD±RW Super Multi Double Layer --Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600 supporting 512MB HyperMemory --Wireless LAN: 802.11a/b/g --Battery Life (Depending on Use): 1.9 hours --Weight: 2.7 kg --Warranty: 1 Year --Operating System: Windows XP Professional Edition --Fast Ethernet 10/100 --56k Dial-Up Modem --Built... Read review

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