Laptops Arena

Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. (TAIS) is structured in four business units: Digital Products Division, Imaging Systems Division, Storage Device Division, and Telecommunication Systems Division. These 4 units deal with mobile production, industry portable computers, imaging products for security markets, telephony equipment. The company is ensuring the sales, marketing and services of its range of products in USA and Latin America. TAIS is a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, which is a world leader and promoter in high technology products. The new highlights of its later releases is the quartet of Satellites.
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The quartet of satellites introduced by Toshiba are under the L Series Line comprising 14” Satellite L510/L515, the 15.6" and 16" Satellite L500/L505, and the high end 17.3" Satellite L550/L555, and depending on configuration they will be powered by Athlon or Turion or Intel’s Pentium or Core 2 Duo processors. The Satellite L Series Laptops have been designated to serve the budget-smart consumers and ‘back-to-school’ shoppers, striking an ideal balance of style, performance and cost.  The line of these new laptops displays more screen size options, new features and introduced the Fusion Finish to confer the line a great new appearance.

The Satellite L Series has 4 model classes and each one is equipped with the latest processors and stand out features like HD TruBrite widescreen displays, USB Sleep and Charge and hard drives from 250GB to 500 GB. There are present the built-in-high-speed wireless connection, expansion ports and the possibility to choose either Intel or AMD processor.

The new features that make Satellite L Series look different include new definition displays through the HD TruBrite widescreen having a 16:9 aspect ratios and 720p resolution, suitable for digital entertainment, powering among spreadsheets, or dealing with home finances. The other feature called Fusion Finish comprises a Breeze pattern integrated in a Graphite color, pattern that is followed by a color-coordinated interior that completes the aspect.

Toshiba PC Health Monitor is another feature created as a system utility that checks the critical components for problematic situations, such as battery performance, heat and hard drive movement, enabling the users to identify the potential problem just seconds before it is born and preventing the data loss as well. Another utility is given by Power-Saving Eco that allows users to display and adjust the power consumption and settings in a real-time format. It has also a 10 key numeric keypad available on 15.6” and larger types.

If we consider the fact that all new Toshiba laptops are RoHS-compatible, reducing in an effective way the environmental impact, then it would not be a surprise to confirm that Satellite L Series is also friendly to the environment. All Toshiba computers use free recycling compared to other electronic products that pay a small fee for recycling.

If I think well, Toshiba FeRam could be a interesting marketing name for a laptop. Unfortunately, we're supposed to be serious here, so we'll talk about the Ferroelectric RAM standard they've been working on for a few years now. Why talk about this in 2009, if it's an older technology? Well, a recent breakthrough makes Toshiba's FeRam a very interesting topic, as we're going to see right away...

I don't know about you, but FeRam sounds like something new to me, so here's some of the official mumbo-jumbo - "FeRAM combines the relatively fast operating characteristics of DRAM with flash memory's ability to retain data while powered off, attributes that continue to attract the attention of the semiconductor industry. No commercial devices are available, but many companies explore the technology rather rigorously."
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Now, that we know all that, let's add that Toshiba claims the latest FeRam chips achieves 16MB storage capacity and an impressive read/write speed of 1.6GB per second. Back in 2006, Toshiba had a 4MB chip, able to reach a 200MBps data transfer speed, so we're talking about a serious progress here.

Despite the fact Toshiba will reveal more about the FeRam chip at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, the company has no plans to begin mass producing it just yet, simply because price remains one of the biggest obstacles, at least for now.

In the future, the Toshiba FeRam could be a great alternative for manufacturers in need of on-chip cache memory in their semiconductors, taking all a few steps forward, since the FeRam is also capable of holding its contents when powered off. Just think... the possibilities are endless!

Toshiba launches four new business notebook computers included in its Satellite Pro S300 series, which is equipped with the company’s EasyGuard Technology.
The Satellite Pro S300-EZ1511 is a15.4-inch computer running on Windows Vista Home Basic with an Intel Pentium T3400 processor, and featuring 1GB DDR2 SDRAM memory, 120GB storage,DCD Super Multi optical drive, the Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M, Atheros 802.11 b/g wireless LAN, and eSATA/USB Combo Sleep and Charge port.
It is available at an affordable price of $529.

Next there’s the Satellite Pro S300-EZ1512 coming with Windows Vista Business operating system pre-installed, an Intel Pentium T3400 processor, 1GB DDR2 memory, 120GB storage capacity, DVD burner, Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD, Atheros 802.11 b/g wireless-LAN, eSATA/USB Combo Sleep and Charge port, and a 15.4-inch TruBrite widescreen display, allpacked for just $579.

If these first models didn’t meet all your needs, then let’s try the Toshiba Satellite Pro S300-EZ1513. This laptop has Windows Vista Business, the Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 processor, 1GB memory, 160GB storage, DVD buirner, Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN5, eSATA/USB Combo Sleep and Charge port, and the TruBrite display of the same size as the previously describers models.
It has a price of $649.
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You can also opt for the fourth configuration available on the Toshiba Satellite Pro S300-EZ1514 notebook, which comes at $699 with an Intel Core 2 Duo T6570 processor, 2GB of memory, 160GB storage, the Wi-Fi module, built-in web camera, and all the other features of the Toshiba Satellite Pro S300-EZ1513.

"The two-year warranty further differentiates our Satellite Pro S300 business products from the rest in the industry and is now selling for a first-time price point of $529," said Carl Pinto, vice president of Product Development & Marketing of Digital Products Division, Toshiba America Information Systems.

In addition to the already known Toshiba Qosmio X305, Toshiba Satellite E105 and Toshiba Portege A600, the laptop manufacturer launched at CES 2009 several new new computer gadgets including high-end notebook models and peripherals.
Among these we mention Toshiba Satellite P300, a powerful computer destined to replace your desktop system when not at home, and equipped with ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 and HD4650 graphic cards. The models featuring this graphics power will be available next month at Toshiba Direct.

Another new laptop for style-conscious users is Toshiba Satellite M300 coming in Ruby Red and Frost White, all included models sporting 14.1-inch displays and being available at a starting price of $879.

Toshiba TDP-F10U LED Projector is a pocketable handheld projector weighting just 1.4 pounds and featuring a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels at 800:1 contrast ratio. It can be used anywhere by connecting it to notebooks, DVD players, gaming consoles and handsets and has quiet operation.
Toshiba will sell it starting March at a suggested retail price of $599.
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For better organization of your office tools, Toshiba introduced the dynadock U Universal USB Docking Station supporting Windows operating systems and providing high-speed USB 2.0 connectivity.
It allows you to keep all devices in one place and save space.
You may even recharge mobile handsets like cell phones, media players and others, after spending about $149.99 on the new gadget.



For gamers Toshiba has something new too, in the shape of a cool mouse called Toshiba X20, with Rapid Fire switching button that allows you to shoot up to 4 bullets at a time. It works with the Avago laser engine and sports an ergonomic design.
Features include 800/1600/2400 DPI levels with LED indicators, programmable frame rate for over 7080 fps, programmable buttons for Page Forward and Page Back functions, USB 2.0 connectivity, high-speed motion detection with up to 45 inches per second an 20g acceleration, and 3 buttons for speed settings.



It was priced at $59.99.

The last product from Toshiba is the Gaming Backpack, a useful tool for gamers, that holds the 18-inch gaming system, peripherals and accessories, and costs $99.99. It will be out later this month.

The world’s first gaming laptop computer models with 3 graphic processing units from NVIDIA come from Toshiba and are introduced in the Qosmio line as Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q708 and Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q706.

What makes these notebooks the most powerful portable gaming systems are the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU and 2 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTS GPUs, which allow you to switch between the integrated graphics power of the GeForce 9400M when you need to perform standard operations, and the 2 discrete GeForce 9800M GTS GPUs with NVIDIA SLI technology, in order to enable maximum performance for high-demanding applications such as gaming or professional image processing.
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The NVIDIA Hybrid SLI technology permits quieter operations by transferring the graphics processing responsibility to the integrated card, in case you don’t need to perform intensive tasks.

"We wanted to deliver an extreme-performance gaming machine that gives gamers a complete, non-compromising system in a laptop form factor," said Carl Pinto, vice president of product development, digital products division for Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. "The combination of the NVIDIA GPUs and chipset allowed us to achieve a high level of performance, quality and flexibility that our customers are asking for, at a competitive starting price of $1,999."

The 17-inch Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q706 gaming laptop computer is available at the starting price of $1,999 with the Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 pre-installed, a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 processor, 4GB DDR3 memory, 320GB HDD at 7,200 rpm, DVD burner with LabelFlash, wireless N connectivity and Bluetooth 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate.
In addition, the new gaming laptop computer features 4 harman/kardon stereo speakers with subwoofer, built-in web camera with microphone, and a weight of 9.04lbs. It comes in the Fusion Finish with Rogue pattern.



Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q708 gaming laptop computer has a starting price of $4,199.99 and comes with Windows Vista Ultimate plus Service Pack 1, a 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor, 4GB DDR SDRAM, 320GB 7,200 rpm hard drive, optional 128GB Solid State Drive, DVD burner, wireless N support, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, webcam, microphone, and 4 harman/kardon stereo speakers with subwoofer, in the same color as the previous model described.