Toshiba Portege R500 Reviews

Extremely thin and light; excellent battery life; includes optical drive. (cnet.com)

Weighs almost nothing; comfortable keyboard (cnet.co.uk)

alaTest Review Summary

We have collected and analysed 56 expert reviews and 38 user reviews from international sources. The alaScore™ for this product is 92/100 = Excellent. Experts rate this product 76/100 and users rate it 69/100. The average review date is November 28, 2007. We have compared these reviews to 101492 reviews from other Laptops. Last update: December 2, 2008.

94 reviews

December, 2008

76 / 100

56 Experts

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69 / 100

38 Users

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Rank  63

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Key Features

Core 2 Duo U7700 / 1.33 GHz ULV - RAM 2 GB - HDD 128 GB SSD - GMA 950 Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0 - Gigabit Ethernet - WLAN : Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, 802.11 a/b/g/n (draft) - TPM - fingerprint reader - Vista Business - 12.1" Widescreen TFT 1280 x 800 ( WXGA )

Expert Reviews (56)

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Toshiba Portege R500-S5002

By (cnet.com)

Toshiba's much-anticipated Portege R500 may be the best ultraportable laptop available right now, but mobile broadband is conspicuously absent.

Extremely thin and light; excellent battery life; includes optical drive.

No mobile broadband; optional solid state hard drive drives up price; limited configuration options.

Perhaps the laptop we've been most looking forward to checking out this year,...

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Toshiba Portege R500-10U

By Rory Reid (cnet.co.uk)

The Toshiba Portege R500-10U weighs in at a shocking 779g -- as much as a mug of coffee or a loaf of bread. With its long battery life and transflexive screen, Toshiba has created an ultra-smart ultraportable for Web browsing and office productivity. On t...

Weighs almost nothing; comfortable keyboard

Feels very flimsy; no 3G

Nothing beats the Toshiba Portege R500-10U for sheer lightness. It lets itself down slightly due to its questionable build quality, and the battery life could be a bit longer, but it's still an astonishing product

The Toshiba Portege R500 is an ultraportable in the truest sense of the word....

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Toshiba Portege R500-S5002

By Darren Gladstone (pcworld.ca)

The R500 is one of the lightest notebooks with its screen size that we've tested, but its overly flexible screen worries us.

User Reviews (38)

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"Lured into that Dream Again"

By DONKINGBOX (cnet.com)

So having been in a very abusive, incestuous ... 

Looks good

Hard Drive Crashed 3 hours

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"Top of the line for portability"

By F1Joe (cnet.com)

This is one of the best machines out there. I... 

Amazing laptop with exceptional performance

None to describe-Everything is perfect.

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"This laptop is amazing."

By jkeijser (cnet.com)

I have owned this laptop for 6months now and ... 

Very thin, Very fast, Quiet, Extreemly light, Bright screen, Small and compact,

Not many, curser in the middle can be annoying if your not used to it.

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