Craig Pringle posted his review of the Toshiba Portege R400 convertible/ultraportable. The R400 has a 12.1-inch touchscreen display and is powered by an Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Intel dual-core Core Duo CPU and weighs in at just under four pounds.
Along with the Toshiba Satellite U200 series announced this week, Toshiba has also announced the availability of another Intel Centrino/Core Duo-powered ultraportable notebook, the Toshiba Tecra M6. The Tecra M6 also has a 12.1-inch widescreen display and weighs in at a just over 4 pounds. Basically, the Tecra M6 is the business version of the U200 series – the M6 has additional security options as well as configuration options.
It starts at around $1059 for the baseline model (40GB harddrive, 256MB of memory, no wireless, Intel Celeron), but you are better off going up a bit to get the Core Duo and wireless – there is no point in buying last year’s laptop.
Looks like Toshiba has announced another Intel Core Duo ultraportable, the Toshiba Satellite U200. This time around it’s only a notebook and not a convertible/Tablet PC (like the Toshiba M400. It has a 12.1-inch “TruBrite” widescreen display (1280×800), and is powered by a range of processors, from Intel’s Celeron M 420 up through Intel’s Core Solo and Core Duo lineup. The harddrive is a Serial-ATA (SATA) and ranges in size from 40GB up through 120GB.
The Gadgeteer has a review of Toshiba’s ultraportable “convertible” Portege M200 Tablet PC. As James Kendrick points out, it’s a good review as the person reviewing it has never used a Tablet PC before. Whenever I say convertible, I’m talking about a notebook that has both a physical keyboard, as well as the ability to change into a Tablet PC, complete with Microsoft’s Tablet PC version of Windows XP.
Michael J. Miller has written a review in his PC Magazine blog of the Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet PC. The M400 is one of the first Intel Core Duo-powered ultraportable “convertible” notebooks (having both Tablet PC functionality with a physical keyboard).