Toshiba Portege M700: slim tablet with touchscreen
Japanese electronics maker says new Portege is the first tablet PC with a backlit LED display. Toshiba announced on Monday the introduction of the Portege M700, a tablet PC which it claims is the first to incorporate a touch screen LED display. Most laptops and tablet PCs use LCD (liquid crystal) displays, which are generally cheaper to manufacture but are susceptible to glare and awkward viewing angels. By using LED (light emitting diode) technology, the Portege M700 produces bright image quality even in bright sunshine and from different angels.
The 12.1-inch WXGA display is meant to mirror the layout of a standard piece of paper for tablet fans who like to the ability to manipulate documents through the touch screen interface. The M700 also uses the Intel Core 2 Duo and the Santa Rosa edition of Centrino. Other features include a DVD SuperMulti Drive, 1.3 megapixel webcam, a shock absorbing design, a spill-resistant keyboard and “sleep-and-charge” USB ports that can charge compatible electronics (cellphones, MP3 players) whether the system is on or off. The Portege M700 retails for $1,800 (2.2 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 160GB drive, Intel GMA).
Source: infosync
Comments(32)
Crap name, not sure how to pronounce it.
Im getting one, looks good.
Oh no, I was first and I forgot to mention it! Damn, will have to think of another way to convince people I’m an eejit…
would go for this, but has a crappy video card
where can i download one lol….
which M700 is this? Is it the S7002, S7001X
I want to slip my tubesteak into your sister.
can i play halo 3 and crysis on this with maxed out settings???????
What will you take in trade?
@9 what do u mean
yea pretty much you will be limited to the games you can play on a tablet. I have a tx1000 (amd 2.2 & Nvidia 6150) and I can do HL2 and EP 1 at 1021z768 all at low to medium settings. EP 2 and portal are pretty much unplayable on it, except at 800×600 at low.
Tablets are nice but until they into the 15.4 range they can’t really do much graphics power. Of course at that large that is a lot of weight to be carrying around.
Also, on the led. I was thinking it was just a normal lcd screen but instead of the normal back light, it was a led back light. Or is this screen using leds for every pixel instead of lcds?
angels?? shouldn’t that be angles?
Haha joker. Good stuff.
Will this work on my monitor? I have a 19″ flat widescreen.
Where do I download it?
Merry Christmas Chaps!
rapidshare links pleeeze!
Where’s the link I really wanna get this!
i will never buy toshiba laptop and i doubt that this model can change my mind.
@11
That is correct, it uses LEDs as a backlight rather than compact fluorescents.
Ouch, GMA graphics for $1800. You’re really fronting the cost for the tablet feature. I have a $400 Toshiba M115 that I bought over a year ago and just use a $20 Graphire4 4×5 tablet (OS X has a handy built-in handwriting recognition called Ink).
I have the M200 tablet (a predecessor) after I have owned ~5 laptops and I never want to go back to a normal notebook.
But I must say I was hoping they would bring out a model with a decent graphic card one of these days. The M200 has a nice Nvidia (well, it was nice for its time I guess) but since then all models had integrated Intel graphics.
m0r0ns, where exactly did it say this was a gaming laptop? this is for carrying a lightweight laptop around for business, school, etc., not to go teamkilling on a bf2 server during lunch break.
besides, only r3t@rds play games on laptops, they are always inferior to desktops.
and yes, where is the torrent for this download, ima dowloaw it and try it out before buying………
@21
except that games are not the only thing that need good graphics. I do cad cam work and was hoping to get a tablet that would run autocad, pro-e, and UG but sadly non-exist.
Merry Christmas everyone!!
its a great idea but how on earth do you pronounce the name? lol
what about the new Dell Latitude XT
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9980
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006046.html
is this better that RapidShare scams ?
I think since you guys are advertising for toshiba they should send all the crew one of these babies for Christmas.
Regular laptop with a detachable wireless display would be my choice for a new computer if I ever could afford one and if there was such available.
Pronounciation:
Portégé (pronounced port-ay-zhay). The soft G ending sounds like “protege”, as in someone who seeks help from a mentor.
It doesn’t actually mean anything from what I can see, it’s just a term Toshiba uses for ‘laptop’.
oh my…
Protégé is French; fosterling.
Portégé is obviously a play on words including “portable”.
will my m700 tablet run command and conquer tiberium wars
will my m700 tablet run gta IV