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The Toshiba Portégé R500-125 (£1350 inc. VAT) is one of the most portable laptops weve seen to date, weighing in at just 1.1kg, yet boasting a usable 12.1-inch display. The screen is one of the most unusual things about this laptop, as its a transflec...
Lightweight, Good battery life, Generous connectivity, Great feature set...
Doesnt feel very robust, Low performance, Screen wont be to everyones taste...
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Working while on the road can be inconvenient if you have to lug around a 15in laptop that weighs 3kg or more, so an ultraportable is the best way to go. For a while now, Toshibas Portege R500 has perhaps been the best ultraportable on the market for...
Built-in 3G module, great battery life, very light, built-in optical drive, plenty of ports...
Gets noticeably warm, screen has narrow vertical viewing angle, hard drive was slow, touchpad is sticky...
Its well-suited to road warriors thanks to its light weight and built-in 3G module, but its still not the perfect laptop. If youre going to go for the R500, opt for a solid-state drive instead of a conventional hard drive...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated: 2014-06-21 12:19:36
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Weve reviewed Toshibas incredibly light Portege R500 before (the 1.1kg R500-11B won a Best Buy award in Labs, Shopper 244), but the R500-126 is the lightest yet, weighing just 780g. This is an incredible feat, and youll barely even notice youre...
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Ultraportables are the latest hot-ticket item in the world of laptops, and while the ASUS Eee PC and the Apple MacBook Air are two of the most popular notebooks in that niche, the Toshiba Portege R500 trumps them both in sheer mobility. Weighing a feat...
Extremely lightweight, Builtin mobile broadband, Excellent keyboard...
Flimsy build quality, Lousy performance, Display has very limited viewing angle...
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A stylish and super-light notebook that will more than meet the need of the travelling businessman...
Light, great battery life, nice design...
Can run slow...
A stylish and super-light notebook that will more than meet the need of the travelling businessman...
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OK, something as small as, say, the Asus Eee you expect not to weigh much, but a full-size machine? No way. Yet the R500 is a 12.1 in laptop with all the features you’d expect from any standard laptop, including a optical drive, built in and ready t...
Toshiba’s Portege R500 is pricey and its construction doesn’t inspire confidence, but you simply can’t argue with how incredibly portable it is. Yes, you can buy cheaper full-size laptops. True, you can get yourself more powerful ones. B...
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Apple may get all the headlines with its super-thin MacBook Air (reviewed here), but Toshibas Portege R500-126 trumps it in many areas. True, it cant compete on thickness - the Toshiba Portege R500-126 is 19.5-25.5mm from thinnest to thickest, whi...
Even in terms of price, the R500 stands up well against the Air once you configure the latter with the 64GB SSD drive, coming in at £1,761 to Apples £2,028. If youre after a usable, super portable machine that weighs hardly anything then the Tos...
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itreviews.com Updated: 2014-06-21 12:19:36
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Pick up Toshibas Portégé R500-10U and youll be stunned by just how little it weighs. On the plus side its remarkably well priced considering that it has a solid state hard drive, but the down side is the overall fragility and rather poor battery li...
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zdnet.co.uk Updated: 2014-06-21 12:19:36
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Nothing beats the Toshiba Portégé R500-10U for sheer lightness. It lets itself down slightly due to its flimsy feel, and the battery life could be a bit longer, but its still an astonishing product.
Incredibly lightweight, Comfortable keyboard...
Feels flimsy, Lacks integrated 3G connectivity, Expensive...
Nothing beats the Toshiba Portégé R500-10U for sheer lightness. It lets itself down slightly due to its flimsy feel, and the battery life could be a bit longer, but its still an astonishing product...
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Slim, good-looking and affordable ? and you can even work outside in sunlight. Just note the niggles.
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smarthouse.com.au Updated: 2014-06-21 12:19:36
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One of the first notebooks that run on a Solid State Drive (SSD), the new Toshiba Portégé R500 is lightweight, has a great battery life, and even has that sophisticated look and feel. But are the consumers ready for this next generation flash-based no...
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Slim, good-looking and affordable - and you can even work outside in sunlight. Just note the niggles. On the face of it, the Sony TZ12 and the Toshiba Portégé R500 have plenty in common. They weigh practically the same, have similar-sized screens, and...
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Zdnet.com.au Updated: 2014-06-21 12:19:36
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Editors Note: This review is from our sister site, CNET.com. Some models mentioned in this review may not be available in Australia. Perhaps the laptop weve been most looking forward to checking out this year, Toshibas Portege R500 is very close to...
Extremely thin and light, Excellent battery life, Includes optical drive...
No mobile broadband, Optional solid state hard drive drives up price, Limited configuration options...
Toshibas much-anticipated Portege R500 may be the best ultraportable laptop available right now, but mobile broadband is conspicuously absent.
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Toshiba is touting its Portege R500 as the lightest notebook in the world. At 1.2kg without its power supply, we are inclined to agree. It is slim and stylish, but still manages to include an internal optical drive, an SD card reader and a basic set of...
Weight, Optical drive despite its size, Battery Life...
Screen flexibility The Final Word Although the Toshiba Portege R500 is clearly not a power users choice, its light weight frame, small size and good battery life make it an excellent choice for simple tasks such as email, Web surfing and simple office...
Although the Toshiba Portege R500 is clearly not a power users choice, its light weight frame, small size and good battery life make it an excellent choice for simple tasks such as email, Web surfing and simple office applications while travelling for...
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If the R500s design and screen had received as much love as its innards, it would have been the perfect ultraportable...
Extremely powerful. Unbelievably light...
Feels a little cheap. Screen not as good as competitors...
If the R500s design and screen had received as much love as its innards, it would have been the perfect ultraportable...
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asiaone.com Updated: 2016-11-24 07:35:32
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WHEN it was first launched last year, the Portege R500 was the worlds lightest and slimmest PC. It has now substituted its hard-disk storage with a 128 GB solid-state drive (SSD).Both the MacBook Air and Lenovos X300 have 64 GB SSDs. Unlike the MacBo...
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