Toshiba Portege R500-S5003 Reviews

Extremely thin and light laptop; includes solid-state hard drive.

Fixed configuration; no mobile broadband; expensive external optical drive option; ULV CPU limits performance without seeming to do all that much to extend battery life.

Toshiba's SSD version of the Portege R500 may be the best ultraportable laptop available right now, and it packs in much of what the MacBook Air lacks while weighing nearly half as much.

I bought R500S5007V and very disappointed. Wo... 

light weight

bad screen, heat problem, fragile, short battery life. R500 and R600 are the same design and built, very deceptive ads. "high brightness" screen? Look and feel like old passive matrix screen.

Within 3 months of purchasing TOSHIBA Portege... 

Good looking, Less weight

Technically defective product and service is worst

If you are concern about he weight. This unit... 

It's lightweight. Runs Vista, Adobe CS3, Lightroom, Perfect for travel, Sending email and web browsing, Wifi enabled, Bluetooth, 3 usb.

Aero on vista so slow turn it off, Trackpad is interrupted when there is a slight force near the fingerprint device, Slow to boot, No DVI, Very hot especially on the left side, Be sure to have a backup electric fan. Heavy battery pack.