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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 Cheap Laptops
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,
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 Cheap Laptops
X1, which includes a smaller battery, but over a half-pound less than lcd screen laptop computer
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 a time.
Two programmable buttons sit to the keyboard's left; the first launches the application of your choice, Cheap Laptops
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 cleaning laptop computer screen 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 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 Cheap Laptops
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, 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 Cheap Laptops
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,
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 Cheap Laptops
X1, which includes a smaller battery, but over a half-pound less than lcd screen laptop computer
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 a time.
Two programmable buttons sit to the keyboard's left; the first launches the application of your choice, Cheap Laptops
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 cleaning laptop computer screen 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 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 Cheap Laptops
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, protecting the hard drive from damage, and altering the included Trusted Platform Module chip that encrypts your sensitive data.
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