Five of the Best Toshiba Notebook Computers

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Toshiba, the Japanese electronics giant, manufactures a wide range of electronic products including the notebook laptop. Toshiba's notebook laptops come with the best hardware possible and provide seemingly unlimited processing capabilities. 

Toshiba laptops also provide the best value for money to its customers. Among Toshiba's notebook laptops, five of the best notebook laptops are reviewed in detail here.

1. Toshiba Portege R705-P35

This Toshiba notebook uses one of the fastest processor available in the market place. It uses the Intel i3-370M processor that has a clock speed of 2.40 Ghz and is built with 2 cores. Toshiba portege comes with a hard drive capacity of 500 GB and a RAM capacity of 4GB. The type of memory used is DDR3, which has a speed of 1,066Mhz. It uses a Li-Ion Battery and has the capacity to last for 8 hours. It has a built in Web cam and a memory card reader. It belongs to the LED display type and the display size is 13.3 inches. This Toshiba notebook comes with an Intel Graphics card and an enhanced optical drive in the form of DVD- Super multi drive.

Connectivity Features:

It has the capability to support 4G wireless connectivity and has additional connection options in the form of Ethernet port, HDMI and USB 2.0.

2. Toshiba Satellite A665-S6058

This is one of Toshiba’s best computers period. It has a built in web cam and a memory card reader. The keyboard comes with a numeric 10 key keypad and multi touch touchpad. The speakers used in is this model are the popular Harman speakers that supports Dolby Advanced Audio capabilities. The Battery used is the Lithium-Ion battery that has the capacity to last 4 hours. It has a storage capacity of 500GB and comes with a 4GB DDR3 RAM. The display size is 16 inches and comes with a aspect ratio of 16:9. It comes with the NVIDIA graphics card, manufactured under optimus technology and a DVD Superdrive optical drive system.

Connectivity Features:

This model comes with a Wi-Fi connectivity and other connectivity options including HDMI port, Ethernet port, Headphone output and S-Video capabilities.

3. Toshiba Portege R835-P322

The main features available with this Toshiba model include backlit keyboard, Wireless display capability, memory card reader, fingerprint reader, touch pad mouse, multiple level password utilities and reinforced security cable lock slot. The display size is 13.3 inches and has an associated aspecr ratio of 16:9. The storage capacity is slightly higher than the other models at 750GB. The RAM used is a DDR3 6GB RAM, which can be extended up to 8GB.

Connectivity options:

This Toshiba notebook laptop supports Bluetooth, DLNA and Wi-Fi connectivity and has separate ports for HDMI, USB3.0 and Ethernet connections.

4. Toshiba Satellite E305-S1990X

This Toshiba model comes with Wi-Fi wireless connectivity and supports USB 2.0 and 3.0. Some of the features available include wireless display capability, built -n web cam and back lit keyboard. It has a display size of 14 inches and uses Intel graphics card for running multimedia applications. It weighs 4.9 pounds and has a hard drive capacity of 500GB and a RAM capacity of 4GB with the option of increasing it to 8GB.

Connectivity Options:

This notebook comes with everything you’d expect from Toshiba including Bluetooth, Wi-fi connectivity and DLNA. Plus Ethernet, two USB 3.0 connections and HDMI.

5. Toshiba Satellite P775-S7372

This is another excellent Satellite model that comes with amazing features including 8GB built in RAM, 750GB hard disk capacity, Intel HD graphics chip and the options for providing Wi-Fi connectivity. This notebook uses a Lithium-Ion battery and lasts for 4 hours. The display type is LED and the display size comes to 17.3 inches.

Connectivity Options:

Comes with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HDMI, a USB 3.0 socket and DLNA. This is one of the best lower end computers if you want the connectivity of more expensive models.

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I have recently decided that a Toshiba notebook laptop was the best option and bought the exceptional A665-S6058 model. You should too!

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Toshiba announces 7-inch color e-reader in Japan

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If you're gonna be late to a party, you should at least be fashionably late. That's the mindset behind Toshiba's entry into the dedicated e-reader space with its new 7-inch BookPlace DB50. Toshiba hopes adding an e-reader alongside its existing AT200 and Thrive tablets will push more eyeballs towards the 100,000 or so titles in its BookPlace online bookstore. The ¥22,000 ($284) BookPlace DB50 sports a TFT-LCD screen with an LED backlight, a 1GHz Freescale i.MX535 processor, 8GB of internal flash memory and a microSD slot. The device also measures 120mm wide, 190mm tall, 11mm thick and weighs 330 grams (11.6 ounces), with battery life rated at up to 7.5 hours. Toshiba did not mention the operating system in its release though the hubbub in the Interwebs is that it will use customized versions of Linux and Android Gingerbread. The Japanese debut is pegged for February 10th and the company is apparently considering a release outside the country, too. 

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Samsung : Transparent Flexible AMOLED Displays (New video)

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On the past we wrote an article about flexible paper thin AMOLED and transparent displays. Samsung Mobile Display, produced recently, a new short Video (in Korean) showing a transparent, flexible 3D AMOLED display based tablet. This is obviously just a concept device, and it'll take years before they'll be able to commercialize something like that, but it's still very cool.

Flexible OLEDs are still not available, but Samsung does plan to start producing these in 2012. The first screens will probably not be bendable ones, but Samsung will be able to produce them on curved surfaces. Several other companies (including Sony, AUO, LG, HP, Toshiba, TDK and others) are working towards flexible OLEDs. 

This technology is exciting device makers, too - check out Nokia's Kinetic prototype - a completely flexible mobile phone : 

The idea is that you can bend and twist the whole device to perform certain actions : for example bending it towards you is used to select an option or zoom-in on an image. 

Nokia didn't say what kind of display technology is used in this device , but it's most likely a flexible OLED. 

The display is 4" in size and has impressive viewing angles according to reports. In the past two years we've seen several companies present flexible/bendable OLED Prototypes: Samsung, LG and UDC, Toshiba, Sony, AUO and the FDC with UDC. Nokia is already buying AMOLED panels from Samsung and LG, so it's likely they are collaborating with one of the Korean makers.  Apple is also interested in such displays.

Transparent OLEDs have been commercialized already actually - TDK is producing 2.4" PMOLED screens, and the first product to use them is Lenovo's S-800 phone. But these rigid and simple displays are a far cry from what Samsung shows us in this concept. Enjoy the video!

 

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Samsung,Sony,LG,Toshiba on flexible paper thin AMOLED and transparent displays

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We are witnessing the greatest shakeup in the world of computing that has ever taken place.

Today's Mobile phones, PCs and TVs can already send e-mail, browse the Web, and keep you in touch with friends and colleagues via voice or text message. 

Tomorrow's handsets will add even more to the menu, morphing (as needed) into always-connected portable game consoles, full-featured TVs, and credit cards. Here's a quick look at what's coming :

Samsung Flexible AMO-LED Display at CES 2011 : 

Samsung showed off their flexible AMO-LED displays at CES 2011 Las Vegas. The displays are rollable, bendable and can even survive impacts from a hammer. Impressive stuff!

Samsung Transparent AM-OLED Display at CES 2011 :

We take a look at the transparent AMO-LED display technology from Samsung at CES 2011. By sacrifing some AMO-LED pixels as blank spots, Samsung has created AMO-LED displays that you can see right through.

Samsung Flexible AMO-LED and transparent OLED Screens :

Samsung's booth over at FPD 2010 in Japan was definitely the highlight. This is a showcase of various Samsung flexible AMO-LED and transparent OLED Displays :

- Clamshell 5 inch Dual Screen MID 

- 7 inch AMO-LED Display (Galaxy Tab) 

- Flexible and Foldable Displays 

- Transparent Display

A Demonstration of Samsung's Flexible AMO-LED Display :

Showing you that this display is indestructible!!! All other displays break with this test except Samsung Flexible AMO-LED Display. 

Sony's Flexible full-color OLED :

Sony has unveiled what is billed as the world's first flexible, full color OLED (Organic Light Emmiting Diode) 

LG 31 in OLED :

Thanks to OLED's being so thin, LG has been able to make this TV just 2,9 mm thick, and its staggering to behold, Read the full story following the source link below this video! 

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Toshiba flexes its paper-thin LCD muscle :

Toshiba found an interesting use of flexible LCD technology : user input. At SID 2010, the Japanese display manufacturer showed off an 8,4inch wide, 0,1mm thick SVGA panel that could be grabbed and physically bent to zoom in or out using Google Earth.

While it's a far cry from SDOF and perhaps not as entertaining as controlling the time-space continuum with forefinger and thumb, the bend sensor seems like an obvious addition to the gamut of crisp, rollable, data storing, energy generating flexible tech already in development. It's also worth noting that Toshiba isn't the only one working on the idea. IBM filed apatent application for "flexible displays as an input device" back in 2006. 

Sphere Multitouch Interactions on a Spherical Display :

Sphere is a multi-user, multi-touch-sensitive spherical display in which an infrared camera used for touch sensing shares the same optical path with the projector used for the display. Sphere has been developed by Hrvoje Benko, Andy Wilson and Ravin Balakrishnan at Microsoft Research. 

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