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Going with the Toshiba Laptop

After a lot of deliberation, I decided to go with the Toshiba R500.

General specs are 12” LED screen, 19mm pitch keyboard, 8.5” x 11” footprint, 2 gigabytes of RAM, 64 gig solid state drive, internal DVD burner that is only 7mm thick, About 3/4 inch thick and it only weighs 1.88 pounds. Yes, that’s right. Less than two pounds.

When checking out the reviews, I found something exciting. Toshiba is coming out with this model as the R1 in Japan, but it is bringing it to the States as the R500 at the same time. Normally, if the same model is sold in the United States (and it frequently isn’t) we tend to be about 6 months behind the Japanese release.

One of my concerns was the 12” screen. I’m used to the 14.1” monitor of the Panasonic Y2. I’m 43 years old and my eyesight is not as good as it was and don’t like the type too small. The 12” widescreen model is about the same as my 14.1” monitor, but not as tall. As long as I can read the text well, I don’t mind a little scrolling.

The model with the solid state drives has not been released yet (either here or in Japan), but it should be sometime in September. I’m looking forward to it.

Full post as published by South Carolina Trial Law Blog on September 09, 2007 (boomark / email).