Toshiba Satellite U500-1EX Complete with 13.3in Touch Screen Display

Posted 02/11/2010 at 1:57pm | by Bart Salisbury

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Touch screen notebooks: good idea or greasy, smudgy mess? Toshiba’s going to give us another chance to find out, with the release of the Satellite U500-1EX laptop.

The U500-1EX has a 13.3-inch TrueBrite XGA touch screen LCD, with a resolution of 1280 x 800. It’s powered by the Intel Core i3-330M processor, with a clock speed of 2.14GHz, a front side bus speed of 1,066MHz, and a second level cache of 3MB. Standard memory configuration is 4GB of 1,066 MHZ DDR3 RAM, expandable to 8GB. And it comes with a 320GB hard drive and double-layer DVD drive with read/write capabilities.

The 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium is pre-installed. The touch screen operates off of Microsoft's Touch Pack add-on.

The rest of the U500-1EX’s specs are pretty much what you’d expect: an HDMI port, a 5-in-1 media card reader, two USB 2.0 ports, an integrated HD web camera and built-in microphone, 802.11 b/g/N Wi-Fi, fast Ethernet, and Bluetooth. The touchpad allows for multi-touch control. Battery life is estimated at a bit over three hours.

The price of the U500-1EX is £649 (but jumps to £762.58 after VAT is tacked on). That translates to about $1,107. Doesn''t make any difference, really, as, for the moment, the U500-1EX is only available in the United Kingdom.

Image Credit: Toshiba