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Toshiba Portege R100 notebook is a sexy little number
Review Super slim magnesium unit
By Perry Longinotti: Wednesday 26 May 2004, 08:37
THE TOSHIBA Portege R100 ultra slim notebook makes a powerful first impression. I have owned a lot of portables ranging from sexy Apples to business workhorses and even a VAIO ultra slim. None can match the R100 for sexiness. I think that the M2, R100, M200 are among the best-engineered notebooks you find these days. The R100 immediately struck me as being much better engineered than the laptops that preceded it in my collection.
The unit is comprised mostly of magnesium and has a very solid feel. Mine was slightly warped but this was easily corrected with some light flexing - the kind of flexing common with plastic laptops when doing such things as simply opening and closing them. We aren't talking about torturing the thing.
This R100 was built around the ultra low voltage Pentium M 900 processor (it is also available with a 1GHz CPU) and is a "Centrino" system. It has Intel's 2100 series 802.11b mini PCI wireless card, and is equipped with a 40GB HD and 256 megabytes of RAM. The total RAM is a bit low, but an open slot is available to add more (up to 1.25 GB). More RAM is a good idea as the 1.8-inch drive in this unit spins at 4200rpm so you will want to avoid relying on a disc page file. Despite the fact that this drive only spins at 4200rpm, compared to newer 2.5-inch laptop drives, the system boots fast and you won't be waiting for apps to load.
The operating system is Windows XP Professional. This is definitely a business notebook and the additional software that comes with it is quite Spartan. I love this! The only thing I needed to remove was WinDVD 4. Toshiba has bundled a bunch of its utilities for network configuration and battery setup. Personally, I wish these systems would work well without the added memory consuming utilities. Having said this, the Toshiba utilities are quite benign and can be hidden from view, but still eat up bits of memory.
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Review Super slim magnesium unit
By Perry Longinotti: Wednesday 26 May 2004, 08:37
THE TOSHIBA Portege R100 ultra slim notebook makes a powerful first impression. I have owned a lot of portables ranging from sexy Apples to business workhorses and even a VAIO ultra slim. None can match the R100 for sexiness. I think that the M2, R100, M200 are among the best-engineered notebooks you find these days. The R100 immediately struck me as being much better engineered than the laptops that preceded it in my collection.
The unit is comprised mostly of magnesium and has a very solid feel. Mine was slightly warped but this was easily corrected with some light flexing - the kind of flexing common with plastic laptops when doing such things as simply opening and closing them. We aren't talking about torturing the thing.
This R100 was built around the ultra low voltage Pentium M 900 processor (it is also available with a 1GHz CPU) and is a "Centrino" system. It has Intel's 2100 series 802.11b mini PCI wireless card, and is equipped with a 40GB HD and 256 megabytes of RAM. The total RAM is a bit low, but an open slot is available to add more (up to 1.25 GB). More RAM is a good idea as the 1.8-inch drive in this unit spins at 4200rpm so you will want to avoid relying on a disc page file. Despite the fact that this drive only spins at 4200rpm, compared to newer 2.5-inch laptop drives, the system boots fast and you won't be waiting for apps to load.
The operating system is Windows XP Professional. This is definitely a business notebook and the additional software that comes with it is quite Spartan. I love this! The only thing I needed to remove was WinDVD 4. Toshiba has bundled a bunch of its utilities for network configuration and battery setup. Personally, I wish these systems would work well without the added memory consuming utilities. Having said this, the Toshiba utilities are quite benign and can be hidden from view, but still eat up bits of memory.
Full story here