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Should a laptop with dual 7″ screens be among the cool gadgets?  Toshiba seems to be a “better than average” supplier of laptops in terms of both features and durability (I have owned a couple of Satellite laptops and have not encountered major issues).  One possible weakness of the Libretto though is that the battery life is around 3 hours due to its dual screen feature.  Furthermore, the Libretto did receive a poor review from pcmag.com.  A small sampling of 12 recent buyers though awarded it an average of 4 stars out of five on Amazon (Note that there are a couple of buyer beware reviews among them).  Available Now at Amazon

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Libretto W105: When a Single Screen Is Simply Not Enough

The next generation in ultra-mobile computing, the Toshiba Libretto W105 goes beyond tablets and netbooks to deliver a full Windows 7 experience that’s accessed across two 7-inch multi-touch screens. Featuring a durable 1.8-pound clamshell design on the outside and the horsepower of an Intel Pentium processor on the inside, the Libretto W105 helps you stay productive on the go as well as allow you to enjoy games, e-books, movies, music, and TV wherever you roam.

The Libretto W105 with dual

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You can stretch your windows across both displays or see two windows on each screen, and navigate with intuitive multi-touch control. The versatile Libretto W105 also provides full typing comfort courtesy of virtual keyboards–choose from six modes, including Simple, Full, Thumb, and even a 10-key pad.

The Libretto W105 (model W105-L251) is powered by Windows 7 Home Premium and comes equipped with an Intel Pentium processor, 2 GB of fast DDR3 memory and a 62 GB solid state drive–plenty of horsepower for enjoying rich Internet and multimedia content. Built-in connectivity features–including 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth–give you the flexibility to connect from any hotspot or pair the device with their favorite wireless accessories, such as a mouse, headphones and more.

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Engineered for the ultimate in carrying comfort and handheld performance, it’s equipped with a spacious solid state drive for storing and sharing your files, along with music, photos and clips. And it’s encased in a black metallic finish.

Innovative Design for On-the-Go Multitasking

With an ultra-portable weight of just 1.8 pounds, the Libretto W105 is designed to deliver a rich Internet experience, multimedia playback and the freedom to multitask–just like a standard laptop–but with the advantage of two 7-inch touchscreens to work, watch and play on. The multi-touch screens can work independently or together, giving you the flexibility to decide how they want to use them. Surf the Web on one screen while checking e-mail on the other, view two documents simultaneously or view a Web page across both screens. A built-in 3D accelerometer allows the Libretto W105 to rotate into portrait or landscape modes, making the device look and feel more like a book, newspaper or magazine.

The traditional clamshell design allows the device to fold up for easier portability, while protecting the screens from breaks and scratches. Measuring a mere 4.84 inches by 7.95 inches when closed, the device fits easily into almost any bag or jacket pocket.

Wireless Freedom

Carry the Libretto W105 PC and you’re done with wires. The Wireless-N Wi-Fi puts you in touch from any hotspot, and the integrated Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity lets you lose the cords when using headphones, speakers, or a mouse. A built-in webcam empowers you to chat face-to-face all over the place.

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The Libretto W105 works horizontally

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Compact and durable clamshell design

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Go-Anywhere Windows 7 Performance

Powered by Windows 7 Home Premium, this ultra mobile PC offers familiar navigation and full multimedia capabilities. Perfect for multitasking, the energy-efficient Intel Pentium processor helps you take advantage of all the Windows applications you commonly use–including productivity apps like Microsoft Office and video chat like Skype–as well as a wide range of multimedia.

Seamless Synchronization

You can also easily share, stream and synchronize your files and multimedia through your home network or cloud. And it comes with a USB port and built-in memory reader so you can transfer files to and from external hard drives and other peripherals.

Simplified Navigation and Premium Apps

The Libretto W105 features six virtual keyboard modes plus a virtual touchpad. The keyboards feature haptic technology, providing sensory feedback when the keys are selected, making typing fast, accurate and easy. Keyboard modes include simple, full, numeric 10-key, and split thumb mode keyboard styles, providing you with options to fit your own personal style or suit the task at hand.

To make navigation as easy as possible, the Libretto W105 includes several premium Toshiba apps that enhance the computing experience:

• Toshiba Bulletin Board gives users greater personalization of their desktops with fast access to daily activities, tasks and projects, plus the ability to drag and drop photos, videos, links, documents and application shortcuts into one place.
• Toshiba ReelTime helps users easily find files based on when they were opened with a simple visual history. With the flick of a finger, quickly scroll through automatically generated previews of documents, photos, videos and more, filter by file type or use the calendar to go back weeks or months.
• File Browser makes it easier to access file folders and applications. Quick access to the apps and keyboards are easily accessible via on-screen icons.

Key Specifications

• Dual 7-inch widescreen, multi-touch TruBrite LCD screens, each with LED backlighting, screen rotation with 3D accelerometer, and 1024 x 600-pixel resolution.
• 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium U5400 ultra-low voltage processor (3 MB L2 cache) offers two cores of processing power and features Intel SpeedStep technology, helping your system to dynamically adjust processor voltage and core frequency to decrease power consumption and heat production.
• 64 GB Serial ATA solid state drive is free of moving parts and almost two times faster than conventional drives. You can load an entire game onto the solid state drive, then sit back and enjoy the fun with no gaps in the action.
• 2 GB of installed DDR3 RAM (800 Mhz; maximum capacity)
• Wireless-N Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) for ultra-fast connectivity to home and business networks.
• Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity enables you to communicate and synchronize wirelessly with Bluetooth-enabled peripherals such as printers and cell phones.
• 1.0-megapixel HD webcam with Face Recognition capabilities providing a more convenient way to communicate, log on, and share your Libretto W105 with colleagues or other family members–Toshiba Face Recognition lets you switch profiles with one simple look.
• One USB 2.0 port
• Memory card reader compatible with microSD/microSDHC cards
• One headphone jack
• Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music.
• 8-cell battery for long on-the-go usage away from the AC adapter.
• Dimensions: 7.95 x 4.84 x 1.2 inches (WxDxH)
• Weight: 1.8 pounds

Environmental Specifications

• Energy Star 5.0 certified
• Gold EPEAT designation for meeting standards to help reduce its environmental impact.
• RoHS compliant effectively reducing the environmental impact by restricting the use of lead, mercury and certain other hazardous substances

See the complete environmental report card for the Libretto W105.

What’s in the Box

This package contains the Toshiba Libretto W105-L251, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, and operating instructions.

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25th Anniversary of Toshiba Laptops

This year, Toshiba celebrates its 25th anniversary of innovations and quality in the notebook PC business. Beginning with the launch of the Toshiba T1100, the world’s first clamshell-type, fully functional laptop PC, Toshiba has led the with such innovations as the first laptop with a color monitor in 1991 and a laptop with integrated CD-ROM drive in 1995 (followed by the addition of a DVD drive in 1998). And in 2009, Toshiba unveiled the world’s first ultraportable laptop with 512GB solid state drive.

Today, Toshiba continues to be a leader in eco-friendly manufacturing, with virtually all of its consumer laptops earning EPEAT Gold status for meeting standards that help reduce overall environmental impact.

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When a single screen is simply not enough, there’s the libretto W105. This special-edition, ultramobile companion goes beyond slates and tablets to deliver something more: a full Windows 7 experience to be enjoyed across two touch screens. So now you can enjoy many different things – games, ebooks, movies, music, TV and so on – from a single handheld device. Small but multi-talented, it puts your mobile life in the palm of your hands, offering easy multi-touch navigation and virtual keyboards that let you type, click and browse the way you want. Featuring a durable 1.5-pound4 clamshell design on the outside, and the horsepower of the Intel Pentium processor11 on the inside, it’s not only easy to travel with, it’s well-powered. That gives you the freedom to fully relish media most anywhere; enjoy seamless emailing and all the apps you can’t live without; easily share, stream and synchronize content with your home network or cloud; plus chat live and use cordless accessories through wireless2 versatility. Embodying our quarter-century of innovation, the libretto W105 proves that with Toshiba 25 years of boundless mobility innovation is now well within reach.

Toshiba presents the new StorE Art 3 series portable USB hard drive with a stylish and moern design. Available in 750GB and 1TB capacities, the StorE Art 3 comes with NTI BackupNow EZ software pre-installed. Very cool look and great features. It has very modern look and the best thing is it’s size!

Toshiba presents a brand new stylish multimedia laptop, the name is Satellite A660 powered by Intel’s Core i3/i5/i7 processors. The A660 features the Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) technology, like the Satellite E205, allowing users to wirelessly stream videos and music from the laptop to a wireless display-enabled TV set, using a Wi-Fi connection. Great laptop for normal and more advanced user.

Toshiba made its Portege M780 touchscreen tablet PC official and is now selling it. Powered by Intel Core i3/i5/i7 CPU, the M780 gets a 12.1-inch 1280×800 display with LED-backlight and support for digital pen.

Toshiba’s new tablet PC packs Intel HD graphics, WiFi, integrated DVD burner, eSATA/USB combo port and multi-in-one card reader.

For some of us, is the E-Series VAIO the epitome of modern mobile computing. Then there are other reasonable people, the simple aesthetic business notebooks, which is generally preferred as. For this latter group, which is an excess of all new Toshiba laptop in sight, seeking the delicious Portege M780 above. Also in the vein of HP 2730p a 12.1-inch convertible Tablet PC with a spill-resistant keyboard and rugged features is (tested to withstand drops of up to 1 meter), but the biggest attraction is probably Core i5 heart. They are also subject to updates the Satellite Pro A11 (already in the U.S.), M11, S11, comes with up to 8 GB of RAM, WiFi 802.11n, SSD options, and of course, Intel Core i7 processors. Check out after the break, and we hope it comes in Europe, Middle East and Africa during the quarter, with the M780 is closed behind them with a statement of the 2nd Quarter 2010.

It was a long day, plop on the couch, turn on the TV and get your laptop and a cool drink. But if you try again the office of TBS, you will have an exciting video on the web to find – probably Hall Engadget – and see instead that 40-inch HDTV faces to watch TV. Ok, maybe that our particular situation, but he probably in connection with your laptop to a TV in a number of different situations, so that no cable, poles and additional software – basically, ‘s been so easy. Well, it is with the $ 1000 Toshiba Satellite E205 and Netgear adapter included Push2TV.

On sale exclusively at Best Buy, through its Blue Label program, 15 inch, Core i5 Central laptop screen has come with an Intel wireless – what we Widi – the wireless laptop connects to any HDTV with the Netgear, with the push of a button . But can you really see Hulu on the big screen, without your couch? And it is the E205, including a laptop, with which you first? We have “evidence” – or find the video loads on the Web on our television screens – in the last two days.

CES is great and all but one of the bones, which we choose to select the program is usually long interval between presentation in Las Vegas and the mass market of the expedition. Luckily for us, Toshiba has no incentive to wait us one of the first in the world, Intel Wireless Display Team (or Widi, as it were) laptops. The Satellite E205 – which is equipped with a 2.53 GHz Core i5 430M Processor, 4 GB of DDR3 memory, DVD dual layer burner, 14-inch (1366 x 768), 500 GB hard drive and screen Netgear Wireless Adapter Push2TV – is now available at Best Buy. Of course you have the integrated Intel graphics processors much, but the display-integrated technology, multi-inclusions drive, WiFi 802.11b / g, Ethernet, and media keys are nice when you consider the price level of a respectable $ 900.

If there is a renaissance man in the world of the first generation of netbooks that would be the Toshiba NB205 mini. The long battery life, keyboard, comfortable and attractive, and rugged construction of its part of others, even if they have a late entry into the notebook market last year. Like most manufacturers Tosh is gone and revised its netbook knockout phase with the Intel Atom platform Pine Trail and slightly modified design. But the competition has caught the NB305 mini $ 399? Or is it the mini NB305 still have a place in our hearts as the most versatile netbook out there?

On the other hand, as we design the mini NB305. The Acer Aspire One ASUS Eee PC 532H and comparison 1005PE is growing, and it is simply beautiful. Of course, it may be, as the brochure Nokia 3G fine, but the second plastic cover, decorated with diagonal lines in relief and money-ish rounded hinge provides a unique attraction. And yes, it feels good, do not complain of a fingerprint attracts brilliant deck. We also like the focus-on-the-lid, the power button lights up when the machine is running. The six-cell battery, which has been redesigned so you do not project horizontally in the rear, as in the mini-NB205, and now only slightly protruding from the bottom. The entire 1.4 cm thick chassis is not as thin as the Aspire One inch thick 532H, but £ 2.6 is still quite mild.

Around the netbook are the standard ports: three USB ports, VGA, Ethernet, SD card reader and microphone and headphone. Many objected to the lack of HDMI ports on these new netbooks, and while we would welcome additional interface easily to a larger monitor or HDTV atom get in touch, it is clear in itself, can not even edit video and 720p is therefore excluded from the list.

As if it was enough to release seven new consumer notebooks, updated 18.4-inch Toshiba Qosmio X505 desktop replacement with the new Intel Core i7 and Core i5. The chassis has been modified and is still a beast of a laptop with built-in Harmon Kardon speakers and a series of screen resolution 1920 x 1080 The rest is on what to choose based configurtion, but certainly the model of 1199 is less than $ .99 will take i5 430M Intel Core processor and a choice of 320-GB hard drive. Then have options to GTS 360M NVIDIA graphics, a 64 GB SSD and up to 6 GB of RAM. Basically, the Qosmio is a mother of a drilling rig. Views holidays for full specifications.

If a manufacturer is the Intel or AMD chips for a particular model is often only a single marriage. Toshiba is on its new 11.6-inch T115 and T135 ultra-portable 13.3-inch, passionate, Neo, AMD Athlon or Intel Pentium SU4100 can be operated. Nothing, absolutely brilliant, but the starting point of $ 450 (for AMD), which only after a cost of something much Peppi netbook. The phones that are less than an inch thick and weighs 3.5 kilograms and 3.9, or offer up to 9 hours of battery life for Intel and AMD in 6 hours, with the ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics in the past provide some decent low Power Video Decoding (including Blu-ray, if you have an external hard drive). Price range up to $ 700 on a drive of 320 GB and 4 GB of RAM.

We played with both models, and although it suffered any special measures, we can not say we are impressed with Toshiba’s super tough, ultra-light approach. It feels a little cheap and the last generation, especially in comparison with refined mini NB305 – Chiclet keyboard that’s almost better, the slightly soft keys in this exhibition. The price and feature set is certainly worth a look further, but Toshiba does not want more of her fetish plastic and do something a little more desirable.

Toshiba has introduced two new Satellite notebooks with Windows 7 touch screen, the Touch Satellite M505 (M505-S4990-T), and then touch the Satellite U505 (U505-S2980-T). Both have a touchscreen and Windows 7 Windows Home Premium offers touch functionality enabled.

The new Toshiba laptop with housing for Toshiba, has come the two touch-enabled applications: the bulletin board for projects, tasks, and organize users in real time, easy to find files based on when they were opened with a simple story funny visual.

Toshiba Dynabook bestial last updated in April, but at the time, Toshiba was walking with her chin, refusing to Blu-ray integration into their products. But now, the 18.4-inch Qosmio G60 (MX Dynabook foreign markets) is finally putting together high-definition video a Cell processor SpursEngine cooperation based on a Blu-ray, the games the luck to see the film enough strength lugging around this thing. Further facilities include a 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo P8700 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 million GPU, HDD 500 GB, 4 GB of RAM, a dual TV tuner, 7 Windows Home Premium and a 1080p panel. If all goes well, will be available next month (at least in Japan) for around ¥ 220,000 (2,457 euros), although your guess is as good as ours in a statement the United States.

Toshiba is certainly not for laptops, the smaller-sized and large these days, but it’s still determined to make things a bit more with two new models in Culver: The 13.3-inch and MX/43 Mix 11.6 MX / 33 inch. Of course, to come with some compromise on performance for even more mobility, but you have a slightly better balance with MX/43, an Intel Core 2 Duo T9400, 2GB RAM (up to 8 GB’s) hard drive with 250 GB promised 10.5 hours of battery life and Windows 7 Home Premium operating system. The MX/33, but the matter still do with a 1.3 GHz Celeron processor 743 and a smaller battery and other similar data, but you can get your choice of three different colors. Persons Not a word in a statement here, but Japan is in a position (an improvement you guessed it) 22. October show.

We know that love just announced a Toshiba Satellite laptop beware, so: We have two new ultra-CULVER UK and Stateside Market: Satellite T135 (or T130 announced, as it is known) for Agent 13.3 — inch beauty, with options that are either an Intel Pentium, Celeron single-core or Celeron Dual-core, hard drive up to 3 GB of DDR3 RAM and 250 GB. The satellite-T115 (or T110 in the United Kingdom) sports a 11.6-inch screen, an Intel Pentium or Celeron only, and up to 4 GB of RAM and 500 GB hard drive. Moreover, like the children in more than laptops have given the old and the new T135 has found that business is good, “said a little less than the competition,” the $ 710-unit, reserved is the good performance and elegant design. Maybe is the only key and touch the speaker silence is a turnoff to some, but it takes all kinds, does not it? Look for the T135 and T115 on 22 October for $ 600 and $ 450 respectively – their counterparts in the United Kingdom should leave the same day for 430.