Introduction Toshiba’s Portege R500-S5002is one of today’s most ultraportable laptop. The screen is 12-inches but it is still lighter than Sony’s 11-inch VAIO TZ150. This is a quite expensive ultraportable laptop, you will be able to find many cheaper alternatives but not with high-end facilities like this.
Design
The R500 features a stylish design and with a good keyboard and responsive touchpad the laptop is close to be perfect. Even though the laptop is so small its still very comfortable to work on it. The screen features great brightness and contrast, I also have no problems watching the screen from different angels. The native resolution of the screen is 1280 x 800 this is perfect for a laptop at this size. The R500 also has a matte screen not a glossy one like we usually see these days. That is also a big plus in my book. The laptop also features many connection facilities like 3 USB 2.0, mini-FireWire, SD card reader, PC Card slot, modem, Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. This is quite okay for such a small machine.
Performance
The laptop features a Core 2 Duo processor from Intel and 2GB memory. The laptop’s performance is average. If you are running many applications ate the same time it tends to slow down and lag from time to time. This was with Windows Vista, but I bet it would run a lot better in XP. You won’t be able to do much gaming on this laptop because the Intel GMA965 is way too weak for that. However this laptop is not meant for games anyway.
Conclusion
This is a small ultraportable lightweight laptop with good facilities. It is simply perfect for a business man or a student with the matte screen and cool design. The battery life is also great it and beat the Vaio TZ with 20 minutes when testing the battery eater program. So far this is one of the best ultraportable machines out there.
Pros
+ Good design
+ Very small
+ Very light
Cons
- Poor graphic performance
- Slow under Vista
Value For Money
Our Rating
Design
The R500 features a stylish design and with a good keyboard and responsive touchpad the laptop is close to be perfect. Even though the laptop is so small its still very comfortable to work on it. The screen features great brightness and contrast, I also have no problems watching the screen from different angels. The native resolution of the screen is 1280 x 800 this is perfect for a laptop at this size. The R500 also has a matte screen not a glossy one like we usually see these days. That is also a big plus in my book. The laptop also features many connection facilities like 3 USB 2.0, mini-FireWire, SD card reader, PC Card slot, modem, Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. This is quite okay for such a small machine.
Performance
The laptop features a Core 2 Duo processor from Intel and 2GB memory. The laptop’s performance is average. If you are running many applications ate the same time it tends to slow down and lag from time to time. This was with Windows Vista, but I bet it would run a lot better in XP. You won’t be able to do much gaming on this laptop because the Intel GMA965 is way too weak for that. However this laptop is not meant for games anyway.
Conclusion
This is a small ultraportable lightweight laptop with good facilities. It is simply perfect for a business man or a student with the matte screen and cool design. The battery life is also great it and beat the Vaio TZ with 20 minutes when testing the battery eater program. So far this is one of the best ultraportable machines out there.
Pros
+ Good design
+ Very small
+ Very light
Cons
- Poor graphic performance
- Slow under Vista
Value For Money
Our Rating
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