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Toshiba Protégé is now added 128GB SSD

With all the recent talk about the future of storage for both portable computer and computer systems, it comes as no surprise that Toshiba has chosen to feature its latest Protégé ultraportable laptop with 128 GB SSD. And, just in case that is not familiar with the Protégé family, the company's new product will be commendations a 12.1-inch display. Even more, he weighs only 2.4 liras, which makes this notebook features high portability.

The company's latest model is dubbed Protégé R500-S5007V, and is the newest addition to the series of ultraportable notebooks, coming from a company that aims to provide support mainly to business users.

Toshiba, the world's fifth largest manufacturer of computer, has managed to increase storage capacity of its SSD-based offer from 64GB, that the R500, offered by another model in 2007, to 128GB with this latest Protégé. However, what is more exciting is that this storage upgrade is not raise starting price tag of $ 2999, which should offer all the more interesting. Toshiba also managed to maintain the same features the previous model, as one ultra-low-volt Intel Core 2 Duo U7700 processor with a clock speed of 1.33GHz, 2MB of L2 cache and 533MHz front side bus.

Toshiba of Protégé can be placed in the same category as Lenovo of X300 and Apple MacBook air, as these two products also fell somewhere between standard ultraportable notebooks and laptops. However, according to IDC, best suits R500 in the ultraportable category, which is laptops weighing less than 4 liras, which have a 12 - inch display, or smaller.

According to IDC, currently, ultraportables account for between 8 and 10% of the PC market in the world. But because of the Lenovo ThinkPad and MacBook X300, the market is slow, but definitely changed.

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