TOSHIBA RELEASES NOTEBOOK WITH CORE DUO PROCESSOR

Toshiba has released a new notebook computer with the new Intel Core Duo processor installed following similar moves by of other companies like Dell.

The notebook comes standard with:

• Intel Core Duo (doesn't state speed in specs)
• 1GB DDR2 RAM (with a maximum of 4GB)
• 100GB Hard Drive
• DVD-R/RW (including dual-layer)
• 14.1 monitor (@ 1280x800 resolution)
• 128MB integrated Intel Graphics Media accelerator 945GM
• 5 in 1 media card reader
• 1 Firewire
• 4 USB

You'll notice that I left out the battery power. You may buy this product for the power but you do sacrifice the battery life. Toshiba only installs a 6-cell battery in these thus leaving less battery life (go for an 8-cell next time Toshiba). This battery lasts about 3 hours according to their website. Compared to another product of theirs with the Core Solo processor it only gets half of the battery life. This other notebook is rated at 6 hours battery life.

You get all of this though for a small price actually for a notebook. Prices are at $1 799.99 (CAN) for the notebook. My own Satellite A10 cost the same amount and it was a 2GHz P4M (no not a Pentium M, it was a Pentium 4 M), 512MB RAM, 64MB Intel Extreme Graphics (weren't really extreme at all), 40GB hard drive, and to top it off, 2hrs of battery if your lucky (I'm currently at 5 minutes of battery now).

The M100 is a steal and if you're looking a adequate laptop for multi-media this is the one. And seeing that it is small is is portable as well.

*The image used in this story is sole property of Toshiba and has only been resized for reasons of bandwidth and desktop space.