Toshiba's rocks Sonoma on their new Dynabook SS MX & LX

In our society, where the computer industry is told to stop referring to IDE drives as master and slave to be more politically correct, we're a little glad Toshiba's SS line won't be headed here any time soon (at least not but through importers). But their new Sonoma-based Dynabook SS MX/LX lineup still makes our little hearts go pitter-patter: the 1.1-inch thick SS MX features a matching 1.1GHz CPU (we're assuming that means it's one of Intel's Ultra-low Voltage Pentium Ms, unless we haven't been told something), a 12-inch XGA screen, 5-hour battery, DVD-R/RW/RAM (RAM?? Weird!), 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, 60GB HDD, SD and CompactFlash slots, and, oddly, only 256MB RAM. The larger of the two, the 4.3-pound 0.89-inch thick (what!) SS LX features an Intel 725 1.6GHz CPU, 14-inch display, 512MB RAM, 802.11b/g, 80GB SATA HDD, 64MB nVidia GeForce 2 Go 6200, Gigabit Ethernet, SD and CompactFlash. Expect these to retail somewhere between unaffordable and unbelievable.

[Via Akihabara News]

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

DVD-RAM is not weird. It is supported by most of those DVD recording devices (Panasonic makes 'em, I belive), and it makes a very awesome backup medium.

I use DVD-RAM in my LG DVD burner on a PowerMac G4 tower with Panther, and it's a fairly quick drag & drop medium to work with.

Don't knock it 'til you try it!

Chris

[Joey Geraci @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

I think dvd-ram is pretty cool too, but unfortunately, it is pretty weird to be included in a drive. I think lg and panasonic are the only companies to support them in their desktop burners, and I don't believe there are any notebooks out with drives that support them, but I might be wrong about that one.

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM]

"Expect these to retail somewhere between unaffordable and unbelievable."

lol