Showing posts with label Toshiba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toshiba. Show all posts

Jul 15, 2010

Toshiba Laptop Computers - which one is right for your requiremets and your wallet

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What are the criteria for indentifying a Laptops and differentiating the numerous varieties of Toshiba Laptops available in the present day market and how do you know which one is right for your requirements and your wallet? For example you can see many virietes of Satellite Pro Laptops, which comes in the A200 series, L40 series, A210, A300, U400, U500 and Qosmio ranges.

What is the best deal out of all these superior quality Laptops? The amount of choice available today may make it harder to make an informed choice. You could spend a great deal of time doing analysts, verifying the various statistics of efficiences, post sale customer service and the price tags of each and every brand. The comparison between the merits and demerits of different Toshiba Laptops models, deserves some discussion.

All Toshiba Laptops come with all fundamental facilities required for a portable computer. Some house Intel, and others AMD processors. Some people are very particular about their history and consistent quality. Conventional wisdom is that AMD processors offer great performance on a budget.

First and foremost factor deciding on the selection is your requirement and thickness of your wallet. If you have only a small or medium-sized business application, any entry-level lightweight Laptops will serve the purpose. If you have many scientific calculations involved it is better to go with high speed Intel processor Laptops, Toshiba U400 and above series will be optimal.

If you do not plan to use the computer as a TV, or do not like to record TV programs or do not want to view videos in your computer, consider opting for a Laptop without a TV tuner cards and very high quality sound system. You can get a model without any of these facilities, but extremely good in all computer applications. In the process, you can save a lot of cash.

Jun 8, 2010

Toshiba to launch a line of slate PCs


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Toshiba is making it known that the company has no intention of sitting out the tablet PC revolution. You know, if it actually turns out to be a revolution.

Netbooks began to take the world by strom when Asus introduced a consumer oriented low cost mini-laptop in late 2007. It took half a year for HP to introduce the first real competitor for the Eee PC 701, and another few months before the rest of the PC industry really caught up.

Things are moving very differently in the tablet space. Everbody has theis eye on the upcoming Apple iPad, but HP, Asus, MSI, Lenovo, and other PC makers have already announced plans to launch their own slates. And now we can add Toshiba to the lineup.

A Toshiba exec tells Fortune Magazine that it will bring out a whole line of slate devices later this year or early next year. No word on what kind of tablets we're talking. They could be Windows tablet with x86 processors, or ARM-based tablets running Linux, Google Android, Chrome, or another OS. Or maybe all of the above.

Make sure to check out the Fortune article for a good overall look at the tablet landscape. The Toshiba revelation is just a small part oe the article.



Source: www.liliputing.com

Feb 20, 2010

Toshiba NB305 Netbook Unveiled [New Toshiba Netbook Gets Trail, New Keyboard, Software]

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Just a few days ago, we gave a very preliminary report on the new Toshiba Pine Trail-powered netbooks, and now more specific details on the new Toshiba NB305 netbook have been released. The main new selling point of course is the inclusion oe the new Pine Trail Atom N450 processor.

But, unlike others, Toshiba isn't putting Pine Trail into an older model - they're adding quite a few new upgrades to the NB305. NB305 buyers will get a 250GB hard drive vs. The 160GB drive commonly found on other netbooks and on the previous Toshiba models. The NB305 also sports a smaller 6-cell battery than it's previous models, but thanks to the energy-efficient Pine Trail chip, it has a longer (11 hours) battery life.

Toshiba isn't stupid and knows that consumers can choose between eight identical netbooks, all with a Pine Trail Processor, 10-inch screen, 1GB of RAM and Windows 7, so to different their netbook, they're adding some new features to help the NB305 stand ahead of the other models. For example, you can get the 'Chiclet' keys on the keyboard, first popularized by Apple's MacBook, that are popular with consumers.

Thosiba is also offering a trackpad that is 'full-sized', like something you'd find on a regular notebook, as opposed to the shrinking ones most netbooks carry. The NB305 will also come with some new software, to compliment the Windows 7 experience. Toshiba's NB305 is set to be released January 8th, and will cost $400.

Toshiba hasn't strayed far from its NB205 series of 10-inch netbooks with the all-new mini NB305, but the few tweaks made are welcome. Obviously the Atom N50 processor is the central attraction, but tweaks like a 25GB hard drive, less protrusive 6-cell battery (which clocks in a purported 11 hours of battery life), and slightly lighter finished product (2.6 pounds) all add up to a compeling offering. The regular version of the laptop with "true" chiclet keys goes for $400, while a black versim with a less impressive keyboard takes the entry spot at $350.

We got a few moments to play with the netbooks,and came away pretty impressed. It might not be quite the bang-for-buck on offer from other manufacturers, and the lack of a higher-end graphics option is a little off-putting, but as for simple build quality and usability (we're particular fans of the oversized trackpad), the NB305 might be hard to beat. Toshiba's also pursuing the software angle here with a Media Controller app to expose some of Windows 7's media streaming abilities, along with a visual search app called RealTime and a fridge-style Bulletin Board.



By: Kevin, http://nexus404.com and Paul Miller, www.engadget.com