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Toshiba this week announced the availability of its new Portege M780 Tablet PC and Satellite Pro U500 laptop with multi-touch display. Tech junkies will note that this isn't the first time we've heard of these models, but up until this point, Toshiba never a pegged a price point for either one.
Starting with the Portege M780, there's a bit of discrepancy in Toshiba's press release and the tablet's product page. Toshiba says pricing starts at $1,279, but a quick jaunt over to ToshibaDirect shows it actually starting at $1,499. The baseline config comes with an Intel Core i5 520M processor clocked at 2.4Ghz, 2GB of DDR3-1066 RAM, a 12.1-inch display, active Digitizer with pen input, 250GB hard drive, DVD burner, and Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
The Satellite U500, on the other hand, starts at $949 and includes an Intel Core 2 Duo T6570 processor, Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics, 3GB of DDR2-800 memory, 250GB hard drive, DVD burner, mutli-touch LCD screen, 2 USB 2.0 ports, an eSATA/USB 2.0 combo port, and Windows 7 Professional.
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compro01
February 28, 2010 at 9:11pm
If you don't mind HP, you can get a pretty similar system in their TM2 line. works great for taking notes like math notation or schematics.
kjrviking
February 25, 2010 at 12:03pm
did anyone else notice that the picture used in this article contained the OS Windows Vista? i sure hope they get the OS right on the real thing, lol
Keith E. Whisman
February 25, 2010 at 12:46pm
What do you expect? Toshiba has to screw something up. What with all the touch support that's in Win7 and not in Vista and yet touch devices are being sold with Vista rather than Win7 just so they can mess with people. It's all about fucking with us the consumer.
Agreed?
Keith E. Whisman
February 25, 2010 at 11:39am
Finally someone gets it. This is what a tablet pc should be. In fact I wish the screen could be larger, say 15" or so with multi touch enabled. And how about a built in snake microphone that can be aimed at an orator during lectures and such. The future of computing is multipurpose not narrow but capable. Todays technology can make a multipurpose computer that can do alot of different things and do them well. Not like the old days.
Perhaps in the future we will have ultra thin convertable multipurpose, multimedia (remember that word) tablet pc. The future is bright.
I sure hope that in the future that we will never be hobbled by a tri corder. Perhaps a mega corder instead.
