TOSHIBA Portege A600 CORE2 DUO SU9400 3G/250G 12" DVDRW

New 30mm Thin, 1.46kg Ultraportable Toshiba Portege A600 Provides Mobile Professionals PC Health Monitor and Extended Battery Life

The Portege A600, Toshiba’s mainstream ultraportable laptop PC. This affordably priced 12.1-inch laptop PC weighs 1.46kg, measures 29.9mm thin and includes the following innovations, such as Toshiba's fourth-generation EasyGuard Technology with PC Health Monitor, Intel® Centrino 2 processor technology and an integrated optical drive. Designed, engineered and manufactured exclusively by Toshiba, the Portégé A600 provides mobile professionals with a high-quality, highly-reliable laptop PC. Prices $2530 (RRP) for this mainstream ultraportable, which delivers up to 5 hours of battery life

“Toshiba continues to assert its expertise in the ultraportable market place by today's release of the mainstream Portégé A600,” said Carl Pinto, vice president, product development and marketing, Digital Products Division, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. “This new laptop PC is an incredible new design that is specifically engineered by Toshiba to meet the needs of mobile professionals and is available at an extremely attractive price.”

Toshiba's Portégé A600 includes the following leading-edge technologies:

·         EasyGuard® Technology: Toshiba's Portégé A600 laptop features Toshiba's fourth-generation EasyGuard Technology with PC Health Monitor. This new feature is a preventative maintenance utility that continuously checks the performance and functionality of a laptop's critical hardware components and will alert users when the system is in need of a tune up. PC Health Monitor tracks the status of critical components, such as hard drive status, battery life and CPU temperature and system cooling warnings. In addition to PC Health Monitor, Toshiba's EasyGuard Technology is a proprietary, value-added series of hardware and software enhancements designed to better protect and secure one's laptop during everyday computing. Components include HDD Protection, a spill-resistant keyboard(6), fingerprint reader and Trusted Platform Module (TPM).

·         Integrated Optical Drive: Toshiba's Portégé A600 laptop uses Toshiba's proprietary High Density Mounting Technology process to enable dual-sided motherboard component mounting. This innovative technology provides enough system real estate for the incorporation of a built-in optical drive, which reduces the laptop's travel weight by providing users with an all-in-one solution, eliminating the bulk and inconvenience of carrying additional drives and cables.

·         LED Display: The Portégé A600 features a 12.1-inch LED backlit display to provide users with an image rich in color saturation and superb quality. The use of LED backlighting provides Portégé A600 users with reduced thickness, reduced weight, increased brightness and decreased power consumption, compared to a conventional CCFL backlighting display.

·         USB Sleep-and-Charge/eSATA Combo Port(7): This unique port provides convenience and speed by allowing data transfers to and from an eSATA external hard drive at rates up to five times faster than USB 2.0, and the ability to charge select USB mobile devices whether the laptop is on, off, or in sleep or hibernation mode.

·         Toshiba Quality Engineering. Sure, it’s powerful and stylish. But when it comes to quality, this machine is every inch a Toshiba laptop. We know because we designed it, engineered it, and manufacture it, unlike many others.

·         Excellent Communications Suite. Thanks to 802.11a/g/ draft n wireless, onboard Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR, and an integrated Webcam and microphone, this laptop gives you the tools to connect virtually anywhere and stay in touch with friends and family.