Looking for a touch screen tablet PC, well the boys over at Toshiba have just launched the latest addition to their Portege table PC range with the M700. The M700 comes equipped with a digitised pen plus a touch sensitive screen allowing your fingers to do the walking as it were. Extras include finger print recognition, shock protected HDD chassis and a spill resistant keyboard. Here are some hard figures for you to get your teeth into

* Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7250
* Windows Vista Business
* 12.1-inch, 1,280 x 800 res display
* 120GB SATA HDD spinning at 5400rpm
* 2 GB memory
* DVD Dual Layer drive
* Gigabit Ethernet LAN
* Wireless 802.11a/b/g + a/b/g/Draft-N connectivity
* 305 x 239 x 39.4 mm
* 2.0kg
* 4.5 hours of battery life

This little sucker is available at Toshiba for US$1,700.

Source: Pocket-Lint

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Toshiba announced their entry into the NAND flash-based SSD market with a selection of units, the most notable of which is 1.8 inch form factor SATA 128 GB unit which unfortunately won’t be in mass production until May next year. The units have a max read speed of 100 MB/s and max write of 40 MB/s with a SATA-2 interface (3 Gbps).

Now that SSDs are becoming a bit more mainstream hopefully the price tags will follow that trend too, but we’ll have to wait and see until May what these suckers from Toshiba will set you back.

And if you want an early sneak preview of these units then get yourself on down to the CES in Las Vegas on Jan 7th as apparently Tosh will be showing them off at the show.

Source: Toshiba

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It was only six days ago that Wal-Mart cut its price of the Toshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD player to a staggering US$200 but now in response to very little from the Blu-Ray camp they have dropped the price again to a mind-blowing $98.97. Don’t believe it? Check it out for yourself!

Not quite sure why the sudden price drop again, there’s certainly been nothing in response from the Blu-Ray camp and although as a consumer it gotta be good news, you have to feel for those of us who bought the unit at the ‘unbelievable’ price of $200. Perhaps nobody did buy it at $200 and ‘desperate times call for desperate measures’!

Perhaps more likely a reason for the sudden drop is the much rumoured price tag of $180 for the unit’s big brother, the A3, over at Sears.

Anyway I’m off out to buy a packet of breakfast cereal - apparently you get a HD-DVD player free with each purchase. :)

Source: Electronista

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Handy with a screwdriver and need some more hard drive space on your laptop? Well, the latest 2.5 inch 250 GB notebook storage kits from Toshiba may be just the answer for you. They’ve just unleashed a series of five hard drives ranging in capacity from 80 GB through to 250 GB that the untrained user can upgrade their laptop or suitable external storage device with. These suckers also talk nicely to Macs as well; here are a few more bits and pieces about them

* SATA Interface
* 0.37 x 2.75 x 3.94 inches
* 3.5 oz
* 8 MB buffer
* 5,400 rpm (4,200 for the 200 GB model)
* Windows, OS X and Linux will all talk to these babies

The price for the 250 GB model is US$190 dropping down to $80 for the 80 GB which seems a steal to be able to ramp up your laptop.

Toshiba have incorporated these drives into a new range of external drives too. Rather bizarrely the 250 GB external is the same price as the standalone model at US$190. The externals have USB 2.0 connectivity and will talk with both PCs and Macs.

Source: Toshiba

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It’s been reported that a couple of outlets have cut the price of the Toshiba A2 HD-DVD player to under $200. Wal-Mart will officially start selling the unit at US$198 as of November 3rd although it’s been spotted on their shelves for this price already. Whilst Circuit City have beaten them to the punch by offering the same gadget online for a penny less as of now. Remarkably the five free movie offer is still available with this puppy too so if you’re looking for an exceedingly cheap entry into the hi-def player market this has to be the option for you.

When the A2 was released last December it had a price tag of US$499, so there’s been an incredible 60% price drop in less than 12 months. Now I’m well aware that all electronic goods are well known for this kind of price reduction but an annual reduction of 60%? That just seems quite excessive - either Toshiba were creaming a lot off the top at the unit’s release last year or they are desperate to control the HD player market in the build-up to Christmas. Either way it’s all good for anyone on the lookout for a player for the holiday season.

Source: DailyTech

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Just when you thought you had to upgrade to all that ‘fan-dangled hi def malarkey’, Toshiba have come out with an HDD recorder, the RD-X7, that can write hi def video to an old-fashioned DVD disk. Obviously there are capacity issues with DVD disks being slightly smaller than their big brother HD DVD disks, but the boffins at Toshiba have found a way around that too. Toshiba have used their unimaginatively entitled ‘HD Rec technology’ to squeeze all the zeroes and ones required for two hours of HD action onto the 4 GB or so offered by the DVD disk. Hurrah!

Oh yeah, what about the recorder itself, well there’s very little spec out there on the sucker apart from the usual support for 1080p/24. So whilst actual details are a bit sketchy the concept sounds good.

There’s bound to be a few gotchas around this new tech from the boys at Tosh, one of which is that we assume a HD enabled DVD disk won’t give you the full blown HD experience when played back on a common garden DVD player, you’ll actually need a DVD player that can spurt out the hi def output in the first place. So it may not be the ideal solution that it sounds like but hey its another option for the hi def consumer and options are good!

By the way heard the rumour that 8-track is the new CD ;)

Source: engadget

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The boffins at Toshiba have done it again, they’ve managed to squeeze more zeroes and ones onto a HDD through Discrete Track Recording (DTR) technology. Here’s the techie blurb and a pretty picture from Toshiba that for once made sense to me!

So what does this mean to you and me. Well for some reason DTR is best applied to small form factor HDDs, namely the 1.8 and 2.5 inch variations so it means more disk space for your iPod and laptop. Currently the 1.8 inch HDDs max out at 60 GB - Apple slap two of these platters together to make their 160 GB iPod - but with DTR the platters will reach a 120GB capacity allowing Apple to come out with a 240 GB iPod with the same physical size as the 120 GB model. Cool, eh?

1.8 inch HDDs are also used in other devices such mobile PCs, digital vid cams and car nav units, so their capacities should be increased as well. And for those of use who are keeping track of the score Toshiba now squeeze in 333 Gb per square inch on these new drives.

The downside? Well Toshiba doesn’t plan to start mass production of drives boasting the new DTR tech until 2009, so it’ll be a while before a bigger capapcity iPod appears, but at least it’s on the horizon.

Source: Toshiba

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