Toshiba Portégé R500 Laptop Computers

Portégé® : R500

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Portégé® R500 — Extremely light. And light years ahead.

Featuring Intel® Centrino® processor technology

Infused with breakthrough technology (including five world’s-firsts!)
Stand–out styling
Executive security and peace of mind

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Good-as-Gold Green Technology

Toshiba technology in this laptop isn’t just some of the most advanced. The design is also among the greenest. In fact, the Portégé® R500 was awarded elite EPEAT Gold™ status, the highest rating in environmental standards for laptops by EPEAT. Carry this eco-conscious machine and you’ll be doing a world of good.

Portégé® R500 was awarded elite EPEAT Gold™ status

World’s lightest widescreen 12.1” notebook

The compact design of a 12.1” laptop. Thin styling to slip easily into a briefcase or purse. 1.72-pound featherlight portability² Plus a widescreen format for more visual work space. Where CAN’T you go with this machine?

World’s first notebook PC with a 7mm integrated DVD SuperMulti drive

Many laptops this light cheat you out of an optical drive. But not the R500. You’ll be able to load programs, share your work and back–up your hard drive without lugging around another piece of hardware. You’ll enjoy full mobile multimedia capabilities too.

Biometric fingerprint reader

Replace ever–changing, hard–to–remember passwords for the BIOS, hard drive and operating system with the swipe of a finger. A convenient, highly effective way to keep your machine and critical data secure.

Durable, shock–absorbing design⁴

Strategically placed vibration dampening materials better protect critical components, like the hard disk and display, against drops and jarring.

A sizeable 120GB Solid State Drive

Smaller, tougher, and faster than a traditional spinning hard drive, the new solid state drive on select models gives you safe and reliable access to your crucial business files. It also weighs less and uses less power than the older technology―which helps us keep you more mobile than ever. learn more »

World’s first widescreen 12.1”
indoor/outdoor transreflective
LED–backlit display

Short version? This amazing display gives you richer colors and more stunning visual clarity when you’re indoors. Outdoors, the transreflective screen ingeniously uses natural light to bring colors and images to life.

Widescreen 12.1 inch indoor/outdoor transreflective LED–backlit display

Extended battery life.

The R500 is engineered to help you go a full work day on a single battery charge!

works great with

Toshiba Slim Port
Replicator II

Tap into a full–size keyboard, monitor and desktop printer. Enjoy big–speaker, big–screen business multimedia. Recharge your notebook and other devices. Plus, save wear and tear on your machine.

Leather Portfolio

A laptop with the style and innovation of the R500 hates to be put away. But when you’re on the move, make sure you protect your investment with a tote that’s both functional and stylish.

Toshiba Wireless Optical Mouse

The R500 keeps you wonderfully mobile. But when you’ll be at a desk for a while, or in a hotel room on business, this travel –sized mouse really helps speed your work, your Web surfing and more.

Toshiba Innovation Features available on this laptop

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Solid State Drive (SSD)

Lightning fast while standing still, Solid State Drives.

Sometimes the best way to leap ahead is to simply stop moving. At least that’s true with the solid state drives now offered on select Toshiba laptops. Here’s how this great new technology works: Regular hard drives find data with a “head” that moves across a spinning disc. That takes precious milliseconds. But with solid state drives there are no moving parts. Your data is always poised and ready to burst forth at the blink of an eye. It’s just crazy quick.

Enter a new realm of reliability
Free of moving parts, your solid state drive is designed to last longer than a conventional spinning hard drive. And if you’re a seasoned traveler here’s more good news: it’s also four times as tough. So if your laptop gets smacked while you’re slipping into the window seat, don’t worry. Your data has some of the most advanced protection available.

Relish the joys of big and fast
Solid state drives are almost two times* faster than conventional drives and big, too, holding up to 128GB. So you’ll be able to store and open your holiday photos like that, retrieve those monster spreadsheets or presentations in a flash, and launch even the largest software programs sooner than ever.

Say hi to high-speed gaming
When you’re fully embroiled in the drama, seconds seem like hours. But with your new Toshiba laptop you can load an entire game on one of our huge solid state drives, sit back and enjoy the fun. With no gaps in the action, and no pausing for new chapters, your days of waiting are over.

* 1.7～1.8x faster claim is based on comparison of PCMark05 HDD benchmark score between Toshiba notebooks equipped with SSD and HDD, respectively. Comparison of each test item may vary, and benchmark score for an SSD model on a certain single test item may be lower than its corresponding HDD model. Results were achieved on select models and configurations tested by Toshiba at the time of publication.

Your select model may not have all the features, ports, or other items corresponding to those shown on the image. Please see detailed specifications for more information.

$1,799.00R500-S5006X

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Customer rating: 3.33 out of 5

Operating System

Genuine Windows® XP Professional

Processor

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor U7700

Memory

2GB PC2-5300 DDR2 667MHz SDRAM

Hard Drive

160GB HDD (5400rpm)

Optical Drive

DVD SuperMulti (+/-R single layer) drive

Wireless

Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965 AGN (802.11a/g/n)
Bluetooth® V2.0 + EDR

Extras

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Graphics Card*
Fingerprint Reader
Transreflective (Indoor/Outdoor) Display*
Port Replicator

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Customer rating: 3.33 out of 5

best out of small laptops, June 17, 2008
By uzbek from wasilla, ak

Overall rating: 5.00 out of 5

"looked around for best lightweight laptop, and after trying many different once, this is the best choice for the small, lightweight, and long lasting battery laptop. the price is little too spendy, but its worth it in long run. i travel a lot and you can get up to5-6 hours on single charge. it has XP so that makes it even faster. one of the best things is that it has 3 years of worannty, which makes it awesome too."

Design Flaw, June 16, 2008
By thedash from New Windsor, NY

Overall rating: 1.00 out of 5

"The touchpad is too shallow and located in such a way that when touch-typing the base of the thumb on the right hand contacts the touchpad and relocates the cursor. I had to return the computer, because it was impossible to work around this design flaw. Suggest that the touchpad be lowered the same amount as on every other laptop/notebook."

$1,799.00R500-S5006V

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Customer rating: 4.50 out of 5