The Toshiba Portege R500-S5007V Notebook is one of the lightest notebooks on the market at 1.72 pounds. This product has the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with Windows XP Pro Operating system. Between the lightness of the notebook and the 802.11a/g/n networking you will be able to get online anytime anywhere. Ideal in virtually any lighting condition: Indoors, the LED backlit display produces rich color saturation and superb image quality. Outdoors, the transreflective screen uses natural light to bring colors and images to life!/p

Features

• Intel Core2Duo Processor U7700 1.33GHz, 2MB L2, 533MHz FSB with 64 bit li2GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM li128GB Serial ATA Solid State Drive
• 12.1-inch diagonal widescreen high-brightness display with 1280 x 800 WXGA resolution
• Transreflective backlit LED liIntel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950
• 7mm, 8x SuperMulti-DVD (+/-R Single Layer) drive supporting 9 formats
• Genuine Windows Vista Business (32-bit version) with downgrade media for Genuine Windows XP Professional
• Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN, Intel PRO/1000 - 10/100/1000 Ethernet, and Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR li3-Year Standard Limited Warranty

Review By laptopmag

When Toshiba released the a Portégé R500/anbsp; in July 2007, the company billed it as the world’s lightest 12-inch notebook with an integrated optical drive. The tricked-out Portégé R500-S5007V is even lighter, and packs some welcome upgrades: a 128GB solid state drive, a transflective LED-backlit indoor/outdoor viewing display, and a Sleep and Charge USB port, for keeping mobile professionals productive on the go. The screen is still a bit dim indoors for our tastes—especially for a system that costs three grand—but you do get more than 5 hours of battery life in a strikingly slim design.

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Review By efluxmedia

With its 128GB solid state drive, offers more storage space than Lenovo’s X300 or HP’s Voodoo Envy 133, which offer 64 GB SSD. brSSDs feature far greater reliability, faster boot times and faster application start-up times than hard disk drives. SSD can also improve battery life by up to 20 percent in notebooks. Although, with no moving parts, the flash-based SSD starts working almost immediately to achieve far better access speeds than a conventional hard disk drive. For example, in notebook computers, data moves to and from an SSD more than 100 times faster than data moving to and from a hard disk. As a result, notebooks equipped with a SSD can boot Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise in less than a minute.

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Review By akihabaranews

Measuring as thin as 0.77-inches, the Portégé R500 series uses Toshiba’s proprietary High Density Mounting Technology process to enable dual-sided motherboard component mounting. This innovative technology produces a motherboard that is one-third the size of a mainstream 15.4-inch notebook’s motherboard, while still providing users the same functionality.

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Review By pcworld

This laptop is equipped with a DVD burner, a slightly older type of optical drive. If you don’t need the ultrahigh recording capacity of a new Blu-ray optical drive, and you don’t care about watching high-definition movies on your laptop, a DVD burner should suit you fine. It can read and burn data, music, or video discs up to 8.5GB in capacity. A DVD burner is, of course, backward-compatible with CDs, but it cannot play the newer Blu-ray media because the two types of optical-disc technology use different lasers. In a couple of years, Blu-ray will completely replace the DVD disc format.

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