Toshiba's Portege R500 laptop in the wild

Just after seeing Toshiba's mysterious X200 roaming free in France, it looks like that isn't the only machine from the firm running wild in the land of fragrances and fashion. The ultrathin Portégé R500 was also spotted in Paris recently, and while we wish that NTT's 3D glove contraption was already a reality so we could feel this thing for ourselves, we'll just have to judge from afar for now. Sure looks as thin as advertised to us, but be sure and click through to see (more) for yourself.

Update:More shots from Engadget China.

[humpty @ Jun 22nd 2007 10:47AM]

There's a first review here.. check out the video, the flex on the lcd is insane.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3769

[Patrick @ Jun 22nd 2007 11:00AM]

Whoa...that's crazy. Cool laptop, but yeah, build quality is a little questionable.

[Artr @ Jun 22nd 2007 10:57AM]

this laptop is amazing.

perfect for travelling and commuters alike.

[darkstar @ Jun 22nd 2007 11:12AM]

i currently own the toshiba r200.
i would definitely buy the r500 again, when the price comes down

[boe @ Jun 22nd 2007 11:43AM]

Other than the slow processor this seems like a good unit - I wonder if they'll make one with a 2 GHz core 2. Vista is a beast if you decide to go that route and I just think laptops should reasonably support Vista at this point in the game.

[Doug McKay @ Aug 19th 2007 3:22PM]

I agree with the duel core comment. I have a two Toshiba Qosmios the first is a F-20 the other is a G-30. I use them for business and pleasure so they get loaded with Engineering/Project stuff and up to 20,000 digital photos. I have loaded Vista in the F20 and it is mostly a success, took months of chasing and down loading drivers to have a good working machine again. The new G30 is absolutely space age duelcore, masses of memory,400Gig hard drive and all the bells and whisles you would expect of Toshiba+it comes preloaded with Windows Vista Ultimate. The only way to go these days.

[Simon @ Jun 22nd 2007 1:35PM]

Isnt anyone at all concerned by the amount of light bleeding on those screens? Shit iv not seen bleeding like that on new monitor for at least 5 years.