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A CNET editor hit the nail on the head when she described the ultraportable Toshiba Portege R200 as a "thing of beauty." This featherweight laptop for frequent business fliers has a razor-thin, muted-gray case that weighs less than three pounds. The Portege R200 adds plenty of function to its fine form, including a wide keyboard, a fingerprint reader, and a Wi-Fi on/off switch. It also offers sufficient speed and battery life for most business tasks. All in all, the Toshiba Portege R200 makes a smart, albeit a bit costly, addition
to any mobile employee's carry-on. Measuring 11.3 inches wide, 9 inches deep, and 0.8 inch thick, Cheap Laptops
the Toshiba Portege R200 is a bit wider, deeper, and thinner than competing ultraportables, such as the Dell Latitude X1 and the ThinkPad X41. The very light 2.74-pound Portege R200 still weighs nearly a quarter-pound more than the Latitude X1, which includes a smaller battery, but over a half-pound less than the ThinkPad X41, which comes with a bigger cell. Fortunately, the Portege R200 is more than just a pretty case. The system's 12.1-inch display with a standard 1,024x768 native resolution provides enough real estate to
open two application windows side by side. The laptop lacks the usual stunted ultraportable keyboard, shipping instead with a broad keyboard that allows you to type comfortably for hours at Cheap Laptops
a time. Two programmable buttons sit to the keyboard's left; the first launches the application of your choice, and the second exports video to a TV or an external monitor at the resolution you determine. A convenient fingerprint sensor along the bottom edge helps protect your data without forcing you
to remember an alphanumeric password. Our only issue with the Portege R200's design is with its weird mouse buttons, which are molded from a thin piece of plastic covered with a reflective metallic coating. Not only does the coating show off every fingerprint smudge, we suspect it may crack and peel over time. The Toshiba Portege R200 features all of the ports and slots that the average business traveler requires. The Cheap Laptops
list includes VGA and two side-by-side USB 2.0 ports; Gigabit Ethernet, 56K modem, and headphone jacks; one Type II PC Card slot; and one slot for Secure Digital flash memory cards, which we
wish also supported other flash memory types, such as Sony's Memory Stick. The Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system kicks off the Portege R200's software package. Like most business laptops, the Portege R200 omits an expensive productivity suite, though it does include the Microsoft Works 8.0 minisuite and Sonic RecordNow 7.0 for use with an
optional external CD or DVD burner. In addition, Toshiba bundles several utilities for managing important system functions, such as locating available wireless networks, Cheap Laptops
protecting the hard drive from damage, and altering the included Trusted Platform Module chip that encrypts your sensitive data.
A CNET editor hit the nail on the head when she described the ultraportable Toshiba Portege R200 as a "thing of beauty." This featherweight laptop for frequent business fliers has a razor-thin, muted-gray case that weighs less than three pounds. The Portege R200 adds plenty of function to its fine form, including a wide keyboard, a fingerprint reader, and a Wi-Fi on/off switch. It also offers sufficient speed and battery life for most business tasks. All in all, the Toshiba Portege R200 makes a smart, albeit a bit costly, addition
to any mobile employee's carry-on. Measuring 11.3 inches wide, 9 inches deep, and 0.8 inch thick, Cheap Laptops
the Toshiba Portege R200 is a bit wider, deeper, and thinner than competing ultraportables, such as the Dell Latitude X1 and the ThinkPad X41. The very light 2.74-pound Portege R200 still weighs nearly a quarter-pound more than the Latitude X1, which includes a smaller battery, but over a half-pound less than the ThinkPad X41, which comes with a bigger cell. Fortunately, the Portege R200 is more than just a pretty case. The system's 12.1-inch display with a standard 1,024x768 native resolution provides enough real estate to
open two application windows side by side. The laptop lacks the usual stunted ultraportable keyboard, shipping instead with a broad keyboard that allows you to type comfortably for hours at Cheap Laptops
a time. Two programmable buttons sit to the keyboard's left; the first launches the application of your choice, and the second exports video to a TV or an external monitor at the resolution you determine. A convenient fingerprint sensor along the bottom edge helps protect your data without forcing you
to remember an alphanumeric password. Our only issue with the Portege R200's design is with its weird mouse buttons, which are molded from a thin piece of plastic covered with a reflective metallic coating. Not only does the coating show off every fingerprint smudge, we suspect it may crack and peel over time. The Toshiba Portege R200 features all of the ports and slots that the average business traveler requires. The Cheap Laptops
list includes VGA and two side-by-side USB 2.0 ports; Gigabit Ethernet, 56K modem, and headphone jacks; one Type II PC Card slot; and one slot for Secure Digital flash memory cards, which we
wish also supported other flash memory types, such as Sony's Memory Stick. The Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system kicks off the Portege R200's software package. Like most business laptops, the Portege R200 omits an expensive productivity suite, though it does include the Microsoft Works 8.0 minisuite and Sonic RecordNow 7.0 for use with an
optional external CD or DVD burner. In addition, Toshiba bundles several utilities for managing important system functions, such as locating available wireless networks, Cheap Laptops
protecting the hard drive from damage, and altering the included Trusted Platform Module chip that encrypts your sensitive data.
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