Compare Prices : Toshiba Portege A600 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The Portégé A600-112 is a well specified ultraportable with particularly good wireless connectivity. However, the build quality seems a touch flimsy in places, including the keyboard.

Pros: Integrated mobile broadband, Matte screen, Integrated optical drive

Cons: Build quality is flimsy in places, On the bulky/heavy side for an ultraportable

Verdict: At 28.6cm by 22.3cm by 2.99cm the A600 has a compact footprint, though its thickness makes it feel a little bulky. The system's 1.46kg weight is at the high end of the scale for today's ultraportables, but it's not unduly heavy. Build quality is ...

Review summary: A lightweight laptop with a five-hour battery life

Pros: Lightweight ; battery life

Cons: Thin screen needs protecting when carried around ; pricey

Verdict: The Portg A600 is ideal for people who are still not convinced by netbooks, but want a small highly portable notebook with a built-in optical drive, but it's not cheap

Review summary: A lightweight laptop with a five-hour battery life

Review summary: Color up your life.Toshiba wants to pep up the dismal world of no ...

Pros: Several Colors to choose from , Bluetooth and UMTS , Numerous safety measurements for personal data , Long runtime in battery mode , Optical drive can be deactivated, Several Colors to choose from, Bluetooth and UMTS, Numerous safety measurements for ...

Cons: Lack of case stability on the upper as well as the bottom side , Disappointing loudspeakers , Fan noise under permanent load, Lack of case stability on the upper as well as the bottom side, Disappointing loudspeakers, Fan noise under permanent load

Verdict: If you put emphasis on the colorful design of the compact subnotebooks, then more likely different models from Sony or Dell

Review summary: Toshiba has populated its ultraportable Portege line of notebooks with 12.1-inch models built on Intel Core 2 Duo mobile series processors. These ultralight notebooks range from $1299 to $2999 and differ in processor and HDD vs. SSD. The Portege R500 ...

Pros: Small size though not ultra thin. Good performance running most applications and has good gaming power for a machine in this class. Downgradeable to Windows XP. Good Wi-Fi range and good battery life.

Cons: Hard drive is too finicky about movement seems slow despite the SATA interface. The face recognition software doesn't work well. Display is just OK.

Verdict: With the growing popularity of netbooks, casual laptop users who need to check their email and browser the Net will find the slower Atom processor machines running either Linux or Windows XP adequate for the job. But "full notebooks" are better for ...