PCWorld: Preview – Lightweight New Toshiba Portable Devices
Toshiba’s Portege R700 is a classic 13.3-inch screen ultralight laptop running Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processors and up to 8GB of DDR3 DRAM. The AC100 is a netbook running Android software. The Libretto W100 is an entirely new type of product, a clamshell device with two seven-inch screens.
“Toshiba has spent the last 25 years refining the basic laptop design of flat screen, x86 processor, full-size keyboard and removable storage. Its Portégé R700 will continue that tradition when it goes on sale next quarter, but two other new portable computers Toshiba will release around the same time take the company in new directions.
It was in 1985 that Toshiba launched what it calls the “first mass-market laptop,” the T1100. That battery-powered IBM-compatible portable PC had an Intel 80C88 processor, an LCD screen and a floppy disk drive. At 66 millimeters thick and weighing 4.1 kilograms, it was a far cry from the thin and light laptops of today.”