Toshiba building world's lightest 13-inch laptop with fast charging SCiB battery?
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 7th 2010 6:25AM
posted May 7th 2010 6:25AM
Update: New details just came in: available in Core i3, i5, or i7-620 configurations with 4GB of memory, 500GB hard disk or optional 512GB SSD. And after talking to vozExpress, we have every reason to believe that Toshiba will be making this official in short order. New pic with Toshiba branding added after the break.
Lets hope in order to develop world's lightest 13 inch laptop, Toshiba didn't make it available only for people with world's heaviest pockets. we all known Toshiba's high end notebooks can be expensive as hell.
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Could be nice to see those batteries in electric cars. In cheap electric cars...
As stunning as the initial laptop design looks, it could all be moot if the battery life is poor, rendering it's ultraportability as little more than a boasting point in terms of weight. Personally, I still think some of the finest ultraportables made have been the Sony TX, TT and Z ranges, although, being very expensive, they have been beyond the reach of many.
so ummm .... any word on the release date?
I guess I need to start saving up for this. One thing is for sure, it wont be cheap.
Give is a 1440x900 resolution and I'll buy one the day it's released.
@jonyah
Its 16:9, so thats not happening. Hopefully 1600x900.
It's about time someone innovated other than apples.
@chodaboy19 - oh please. A lot of companies innovate in the laptop space. And other than the unibody design, what was the last innovative thing Apple did anyway? Sealed-in batteries?
I'm more interested in the battery, laptops seriously need better battery tech.
I WANT IT NAO!!!!!!!!!
Wow, when did Toshiba hire a designer?
Okay, okay, that was harsh.
Why would you make an ultraportable that doesn't use a ULV CPU?
@joefresco
Cause u don't have to?
That looks beautiful
What's this 1Kg stuff. I don't have the mental capacity to multiply 2.2 by 1. Convert for me now!
I'm curious to see what the battery life will be.
Hmm, if Blaze Mountain has anything to do with Jake Gyllenhaal spitting in his hand...I'm not buying.
Why do they never specify the graphics card capabilities? If this has something that's capable fo running anything decently... you know, anything other than Intel Integrated Graphics ... I would snap it up in a heart-beat.
I don't want to run Crysis on the thing, but it would be nice to be able to run StarCraft II for example. Yet almost universally, laptop graphics SUCK.
@pmbAustin
In smaller, ultraportable laptops? They're all mostly going to run on integrated graphics. It's the cost of wanting it "ultraportable". The people who will buy this likely won't attempt to do anything other than using it as a business productivity tool while looking snazzy at the local starbucks.
You want the good stuff, gonna have to pony up for a fat laptop.
@ounkeo
The Vaio Z is pretty small and light but has good graphics. This Toshiba is going to be like a pound lighter though, so yeah maybe it wont.
guess it'll only be $300...
@cw85739 that is the SSD part....
OMG, it's innovation! I love it! Where do I buy?
Damn, just wait until you get petabytes of storage within a square inch. Then things will start to get scary.
Uh, I'll make a plug for the fatties not that I usually like em bulky but in this case, I'd take the exterior design style (SEXY!), the new battery and all that goodness on a more conventional laptop with an optical drive, four USB's, decent ATI graphics...ya, that will be one laptop that I'd give up a kidney for. Thin and lights don't really wow me unless they can actually have some functionality to them more so than surf the web and look pretty.
yeah, I'm on board, USB 3.0...latest in tech...all right....^^
They should just have a giant capacitor in there.
Fake....., I created something yourself this silde & photo copy of the concept product from Toshiba last year.