Toshiba's Dynabook SS RX1: world's first laptop with 128GB SSD

Your 64GB SSD getting you down? Right, you should be so lucky. Regardless, Toshiba just updated their 12.1-inch Dynabook SS RX1 in Japan with a new 128GB SSD option. Build RX1/TAE bundles 128GB of solid state disk with internal, KDDI EV-DO data module, 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo U7600 processor, 2GB of memory, Intel 945GMS Express graphics, a 1,280 x 800 pixel panel resolution, and choice of 6.2 hour or 12.5 hour batteries. How much? Try something like ¥400,000 or more than $4,000 when it pops for Japanese retail next month.

[Via Akihabara News]

[CrackedButter @ Mar 17th 2008 7:28AM]

I would buy this and install OSX if I could afford it. Screw the MBA.

[soviet_vexxer @ Mar 17th 2008 7:40AM]

hey chief.....Why not save 3000 bucks and get a more powerful macbook. buy yourself a nice backpack to carry it in, 4-5 extra batteries, a massive hard drive, and 4 gigs of ram. that'll leave you with enough for the next two mortgages.

[soviet_vexxer @ Mar 17th 2008 7:42AM]

maybe its just the "more money than brains crowd" who buys this stuff i dont know.

[mike @ Mar 17th 2008 10:11AM]

hey chief..... please be cool :)
don't feed the trolls

[webon @ Mar 17th 2008 7:39AM]

what no thank you note?

[Esat @ Mar 17th 2008 7:42AM]

I would like this laptop very much.

That is all.

[webon @ Mar 17th 2008 11:28AM]

very important info thanks

[Macindows @ Mar 17th 2008 7:50AM]

Screw you Toshiba! I love my TZ!

[Chris @ Mar 17th 2008 2:51PM]

Why must you hate? What exactly has Toshiba done to make your TZ any worse?

[Macindows @ Mar 17th 2008 3:07PM]

It was a joke Chris, relax!

[Aaron @ Mar 17th 2008 8:03AM]

A 12.5 hour battery? Can that be right? I am imagining a battery about as big as the laptop.

[Jamar @ Mar 17th 2008 9:35AM]

SSD= no moving parts=less drain=more time. Now, the optical drive... bet they're counting battery life without it.

[Rob @ Mar 17th 2008 9:21AM]

What, no HD-DVD drive? Toshiba is so lame.

[Liam @ Mar 17th 2008 9:44AM]

£2k+ on a Toshiba laptop? They sure want to make up for those $1bn losses from HD-DVD don't they?

[db2 @ Mar 17th 2008 9:40AM]

What a coincidence, it costs precisely 128 gigadollars too.

[Erik @ Mar 17th 2008 5:44PM]

I never thought I'd live to see the day we could measure things in G$.

Just when I was getting used to M$ (double entendre intended).

[aleks @ Mar 17th 2008 11:24AM]

Obviously the lesson Toshiba learned from HD's demise is that if your product is too affordable people won't think it's any good.

[lindtdale @ Mar 17th 2008 1:07PM]

I LOVE THIS NOTEBOOK! this is my notebook for 2008!

[Elliot @ Mar 18th 2008 8:00AM]

Why would you spend $4,000 just to get a small laptop when you could take the money and get a super powerful Alienware. It might be a little larger but for the same price it would out preform this in every aspect.

[Rex @ Mar 20th 2008 12:51PM]

um, battery life? i heard biz-men place a lot of value on battery life...
and maybe the ssd too, may be so that it isnt hurt by all the juggling and falling...
and you mention thickness...i assume travelling biz-folks don't have much space?

[mrs. krabappel @ Mar 17th 2008 5:50PM]

fuck MBA

[Nish Vamadevan @ Mar 17th 2008 8:54PM]

I want one of those...

[Lediur @ Mar 17th 2008 10:42PM]

What is really disadvantageous with a 128GB SSD is that it has a read-write cycle limit.

With that much space, how many months do you reckon it'll last?

[Sam @ Mar 17th 2008 11:49PM]

"With that much space, how many months do you reckon it'll last?"
The expected lifespan is measured in decades thanks to wear leveling.

[fpg @ Mar 17th 2008 11:35PM]

normal hds have write limit too. its called i get a new computer so i trash it.

[Cheapo @ Mar 19th 2008 10:20AM]

This is way too expensive for me... I hope this laptop is popular to drive the SSD market to more GB at lower prices.

Also 128GB is a hard drive size that might actually sell in todays market. Personally I couldn't see myself ever choosing a 32GB or 64GB SSD over todays traditional HDs no matter the price, they are just too small by todays standards.