Toshiba Portege R500-12Q surfaces with 128GB SSD
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 14th 2008 2:40AM
posted Apr 14th 2008 2:40AM
Well, would you cast a keen eye on this? Over on Toshiba's European website (among other regions), an atypical Portégé R500 (the R500-12Q, to be precise) has made an appearance, and while most everything looks to be the standard fare, the included hard drive certainly isn't. Looking past the 12.1-inch LED-backlit display, Core 2 Duo ULV U7700 processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM and dual-layer DVD writer lies a drool-worthy 128GB SSD, sure to send the flash faithful into a tizzy. There's no pricing information to be immediately found, but those scouting an ultraportable with a solid state disc have likely already come to grips with the lofty premium sure to be attached.[Thanks, Philippe]
Definitely drool worthy....can't wait for a 500 GB SSD to swap into my Thinkpad T61p
Now that will be exciting indeed.
Actually, a reasonably priced 500GB SSD would not only be exciting, but ORGASMIC! O_o
SSD in this size at any "reasonable" price is just too far off at this point. I do look forward to it, but I am not holding my breath. It's still all about spinning discs at this point and I expect to see advances in density with spinning discs long before I expect to see advances in density with SSD. It's coming I'm sure, but we still have a long wait.
But that is one damn sexy looking lappy.
I just wish they would offer 32GB or so SSDs in laptops in addition to the hideously expensive larger models. I just want to install Vista and have a little bit of room left for some applications when it comes to a laptop.
You "just want to install Vista" on the 32G drive? Sorry, not going to happen. My 34G partition is often full even though I moved all user directories off it. With just a 32G drive, I can't imagine the machine would be useful for anything.
Granted, I use 64-bit version (which is more space hungry) but it's 2008.
@Andrew
You are insane. I am using 64bit and it is like, MAYBE 15GB at the end of the day. Google "Vista x64 Requirements" and you will find the same.
Ouch... Based on how much 64GB SSDs are, a 128GB SSD will literally tear your wallet to shreds.
Yeah, but prices will go down eventually. At least we are making progress with SSD. Hopefully one day they will replace regular hard drives.
@ Shawnmos
I wouldn't think they would be replacing traditional HDD's for at least another 10 years because of price issues. Still quite expensive to produce
Indeed. Right now I just want a fast, efficent 16 GB SSD..
With LogFS to take full advantage of the differences between the structure of SSD's and mechanical drives of course...
Hehe...Toshiba +1 on Apple
Does it come with a "Get Out Of Jail"-card? Because once you've robbed your local bank of 5 000-7 000 in order to afford this baby, you'll be in a lot of trouble.
I'm a faithful follower of flash.
I can confirm that I am in a state of tizzyness at this moment in time.
That is all.
Seriously, this is so much better than the Macbook Air, it isn't even funny. Thinnest laptop in the world my ass.
2199$
Even much cheaper than the Macbook Air.
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?section=1&group=1&product=7170
No, it's $3099 for the 64GB SSD and slower CPU and less ram.
CDN$2299 with a 20" monitor. That is a hot price for an SSD. They could compete well with the MacBookAir for that kind of money.
I wonder if any other contenders will step up? Competition will be what gets SSD into the mainstream.