http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/ Engadget Comments for Toshiba intros four new Portege machines, Tecra R10 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/Oct 9th 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/
25.5 mm is claimed to be thinnest?

> the Portégé R600 with suggested list pricing between $3299 and $1499 is the world’s thinnest and lightest laptop weighing 2.14lbs

compared to what?

And lightest? How about the Razorbook, Eee PC 701 etc. (netbooks) or Toshiba's own Libretto U100?

Is it the lightest or thinnest with > 12" display?]]>Oct 9th 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/Oct 9th 2008 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/Oct 9th 2008 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/
Also damaged the sides of the body while opening my notebook..... And my DVD-RW is not repaired even after giving it to them for 5 times!! It just says Power calibration failure when I burn a disk....

I'll never buy a TOSHIBA again!!]]>Oct 9th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/
I have also had a bad experience with their service. Now I have to say I spent a long time investigating and discovered that while Toshiba didn't put any viruses on my computer, I got a lot of false positives from a bunch of garbage they installed without my permission and the most important problem here was that when I told them it needed a new motherboard, they still managed to delete 10+ gigabytes of personal photos and videos (like of my wife and me during our recent pregnancy -- our first child was born and I lost most of the documentation). I would say I should have backed it up but upon cracking open the case I learned the SSD is coverless in there and has a flat ribbon cable connected directly to one of those little pressure headers. I had no way to back it up. :(

See http://www.fruzzetti.org/toshiba for the more complete picture.]]>Oct 9th 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/
You don't have to take the drive out to back it up...]]>Oct 9th 2008 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/Feb 25th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/Oct 9th 2008 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/Oct 9th 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/toshiba-intros-four-new-portege-machines-tecra-r10/
Seriously? You read "it needed a new motherboard" as "it would have been possible to back it up and restore it to its original state?" The machine would light up for about half of its boot sequence before auto-killing and flashing an error message on the LEDs at the front of the trackpad. And as I said, I had no way to get the data off the disk because of the ribbon cable (as opposed to a regular sata setup -- clearly used for its compactness).

I considered just leaving the disk out and sending it back minus a hard disk, but the warranty paperwork essentially forbade that (stating they reserve the right to not perform service on it if it's been 'tampered with'). So instead I spoke to the actual tech doing the actual work, and she assured me she would not touch the filesystem. If you read the link I posted before, you'll see just how right I was in being worried. And if you could have solved my catch-22 I would have paid you to do it :P]]>Oct 9th 2008 4:18PM