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Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

By Andy Smith June 16, 2008, 10:31 PM PDT

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Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

Portege R500

Portege R500

Toshiba releases its Portege R500-S5007V which is just .01-inches thicker and weighs 0.6-pounds less than the MacBook Air–although the screen is 12.1-inches as compared to Air’s 13.3-inches.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

The new Portege contains what Toshiba says is the industry’s largest solid state drive capacity of 128GB.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

The Portege R500-S5007V contains advanced encryption, multi-levels of passwords, and a fingerprint reader.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

Toshiba claims the Portege R500 contains the world’s first widescreen 12.1u201d indoor/outdoor transreflective LEDu2013backlit display.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

Toshiba says the Portege R500 battery will last for 8 hours.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

Toshiba says the the Portege R500 series was the world’s first laptop to ship with a 7mm DVD SuperMulti drive.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

The Portege R500-S5007V from behind.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

The Portege R500-S5007V.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

Toshiba’s Qosmio X305 is a powerful gaming laptop that contains a 17.1-inch diagonal widescreen monitor.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

Qosmio X305 contains an Nvidia GeForceu00ae 9800 GTX GPU, up to 1GB VRAM graphics memory, dual 400GB hard drives, and runs on DDR3 RAM.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

The X305 from the side.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

Toshiba’s Qosmio series.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

The X305 open

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

Toshiba says the Qosmio G55 is the world’s first laptop to utilize Cell processor technology with a parallel media co-processor called the Quad Core HD Processor. The Cell chip which is used in PlayStation 3s and new supercomputers was developed by Toshiba, Sony and IBM.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

The F55 is Toshiba first laptop to include an 18.4-inch diagonal widescreen.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

The Qosmio F55 comes with a 15.4-inch diagonal widescreen which Toshiba says is great for gaming and mobility.

Gallery: Toshiba adds style, portability to laptops

The G55 has a built-in GPS receiver and Garmin mapping software.

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