Toshiba Adds Penryn to Satellite U305

I received an e-mail this afternoon about a new Toshiba Satellite U305 that is Penryn-based – it’s the U305-S2816. Poking around the web, a few sites are mentioning it, including PR Inside and Notebook Review. It’s available for pre-order through Amazon for $1350 , as … Read more

Toshiba NB100 Review (APC Mag)

APC Magazine has reviewed the 8.9″ Toshiba NB100 netbook, and it wasn’t pretty. They felt, among other things, that it was hurried and was a “me too” product, calling it “perhaps the most pedestrian of all the netbooks we’ve seen to date“. Toshiba gets credit … Read more

Toshiba NB100 Hands-On (TR)

TrustedReviews has gotten their hands on the upcoming Intel Atom-powered 8.9″ Toshiba Satellite NB100 netbook and have posted several of their impressions of it. Keep in mind these are engineering / pre-production sample units of the NB100 / NB105. The NB100 they had access to … Read more

Lenovo, Toshiba Add WiMAX Models

The 13.3″ Lenovo ThinkPad SL300, along with the Lenovo ThinkPad X301 have new models in their lineup (or will I should say) that are WiMax-enabled (4G). They are meant for use on Sprint’s high-speed XOHM network (launched earlier this week in Baltimore). The ThinkPad T400 … Read more

Toshiba NB100, Dynabooks on Display

The 8.9-inch Intel Atom-powered Toshiba NB100 (NB105) was on display at CEATEC 2008 and Akihabara News snapped some photos. CEATEC 2008 (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) is basically a consumer electronics trade show held every year in Japan. Given that netbooks are consumer-oriented (in addition … Read more