Toshiba lights up the streets with Satellite U500 Ducati

Ducati may have its roots firmly planted on the highway, but the high-end label certainly isn't scared of stepping out from time to time. After gifting firms like SanDisk and Sony Ericsson with the right to use its name on various gizmos, the motorcycle maker is now linking up with Toshiba on a special edition laptop. The Satellite U500 Ducati is a 13.3-inch ultraportable equipped with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 (512MB), an Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 and 4GB of RAM. Naturally, the primarily white device will boast its fair share of Ducati badging, but seemingly lacks the company's trademark desmodromic valve actuation. Precise pricing information wasn't made public, but you can bet only those with more money than sense will take interest when it ships later this month in Italy.

[Shinigami Posted Sep 4th 2009 10:59AM]

$500 pwease xD

[Dafrety Posted Sep 4th 2009 11:03AM]

You must be kidding. I don't see this going for less than $900 MSRP.

[Processing Posted Sep 4th 2009 11:19AM]

Yeah I hope so. An small gaming laptop like that looks to be $500, but I think it'll go about $650. Unless some other companies can price it for about $575. I could go for that! =D

[Shinigami Posted Sep 4th 2009 4:29PM]

Priced wisely this becomes best all-around Nvidia Ion murderer.
But I'm afraid it will be more like three-ions-per-u500

[kjb434 Posted Sep 4th 2009 11:11AM]

So now I can use this lap top on my Ducati! LOL

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 11:14AM]

AHAHAH!!

DUCATI?????

DU CA CA !! it more like it!

Please... these crap mopeds are over... Killacycle Electric is where it is at.

[fourthletter Posted Sep 4th 2009 12:26PM]

DUCATI don't make mopheads lame brain, just some of the world's finest racing superbikes, so no electric bikes don't really compare.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 12:58PM]

You nub!!!

All DUCACA's are MOPEDS compared to... the KILLACYCLE!!!

Trying to compare a shit bicycle like a Ducati to the KILLACYCLE is like trying to compare a 67 Mustang( That was shite to begin with because we all know that only maggots drove Mustangs and real men drove Pontiac Big block 4 Barrels with the dam Ram blower out the hood and to a lesser extent Hemi's) With that of the awesomeness that is the Buggati Veyron.

Face it, anything less than a Killacycle is basically a tricycle.

[UnixSystemsEngineer Posted Sep 4th 2009 1:53PM]

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a pathetic lowlife of a troll.

Then I realize they deserve their miserable lives :)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 11:25AM]

Great... now coffee houses will be filled with D-bags wearing brightly colored leather crotch-rocket outfits, and carrying dumb looking laptops.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2009 11:54AM]

Then they'll fit right in with the other D-bags wearing pink Izod shirts and penny loafers.

[RanDMC Posted Sep 4th 2009 12:05PM]

It's more dollars than sense. *geez*

[fourthletter Posted Sep 4th 2009 12:27PM]

ICK! Toshiba copied Acer's Gemstone look ICK!

[rchives Posted Sep 4th 2009 12:32PM]

This article has nothing to do with satellites, nothing to do with Ducatis, it may or may not have to anything do with Toshiba but I stopped caring after you fucked me over on the first two.

[fastm3driver Posted Sep 4th 2009 1:49PM]

Why is it not red? And does it come with some way to mount it to my bike?

[Professor Kaos Posted Sep 4th 2009 4:11PM]

Why Ducati would ever pair with Toshiba is beyond me. Toshiba Laptops = fail, Ducati = Freaking awesome. Them together? Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That laptop doesnt scream ducati to me anyway.

[bk0 Posted Sep 4th 2009 4:42PM]

Great job naming a new laptop after an overpriced, finicky motorcycle with notoriously high maintenance costs...

[artshark Posted Sep 4th 2009 5:01PM]

oh hey, a 500 dollar Acer piece of shit with branding