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Toshiba’s lightweight 13-inch notebook with optical drive

Despite the flat design of the device is driven standard CPUs, which are clocked in comparison to the ultra-low-voltage models is much higher. The market launch is planned for August. The R700 will cost 1349-2299 €.

Toshiba presented the Portege R700 a 1.4 kg lightweight business notebook lenovo thinkpad x300 battery with 13.3-inch screen and DVD burner. It comes in August at prices from 1349 to the market.

Like the Acer Aspire X timeline is driven, the Portege despite the low overall height of up to 2.6 inches from a standard-core processor. A new cooling solution makes it possible to transport compared to the previously widely used ultra-low-voltage variants in addition waste heat from the case. The user benefits in the form of a significantly higher performance. The difference between standard and low-power chips is about 1GHz.

The 1349-euro base configuration Portege R700-13K is powered by a 2.26GHz Core with i3. On board are also 802.11b/g/n 4 GB DDR3-1066 RAM, a 320-gigabyte hard disk, WLAN, IEEE, Bluetooth and a 3G module. For the graphic provides the built-in Intel Core i3 solution. The matte screen dissolves to 1366 by 768 pixels. The 6-cell battery will provide up to eight hours of continuous energy.

Although the device itself is only USB 2.0 interfaces, the new docking station but already supports USB 3.0. A docking connector is integrated. The top version of the R700 costs with Core i7, 128-Gbyte SSD and 8 GB of RAM in 2299 €.

The 1.4 kg light 13.3-inch notebook Toshiba Portege R700 is powered despite the flat design of a standard i-core chip and not by the lenovo 3000 g400 battery lower clocked Ultra-Low-Voltage version (Picture: Toshiba).