Comments on: Toshiba’s in-between Portege R500 looks appealing

By: KoKo

KoKo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:53:45 +0000

The Toshiba R500 might be nicer than your Wind, but is it four times nicer? It costs four times as much.

The larger display is nice, but I don’t know what possible advantage the 1.33 Mhz dual core could have over the Atom in actual use.

10″ netbooks like the Wind, the Eee 1000H, the Lenovo S10 and the Samsung NC10, are the smallest computers with a usable keyboard, IMO. They are an amazing bargain.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:55:31 +0000

Why can’t someone make a tablet pc with this weight? That’s what I really want. I grade papers on my tablet and light is really important but there has been no progress on making tablets lighter (even slates) in a long long time. Will they ever get lighter?

By: Lukas Okmis

Lukas Okmis — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:11:30 +0000

Hi, I have to disagree… I have a toshiba R100, fujitsu Q2010, toshiba R500, vaio TZ. I will always love the R100, but the R500 is not worth 500 dollars. Its loud, its flimsy built, it makes sounds when you hold it in one hand – quiiks :) The touchpad is unresponsive, the touchpad buttons are waaay too hard to push, plus they feel very cheap. Altogether, its not a good investment. The screen is not as good as described everywhere…the transreflective layer makes it kind of blurry, not nice to look at. Of course when you work outside, its nice. Toshiba knows, why they issued the R600 so fast after the R500 – it was just not good. I would change the R500 instead of a new R100 anytime. PS: Ive got the 64gb SSD without dvdrom version of the R500.
Both the Q2010 and the Vaio are nice notebooks, with a LOT less flaws then the R500.
Hope that helps to see some prospective.

By: nomo

nomo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:23:04 +0000

Another comparable computer is the recently released Fujitsu P8020 with Montevina processor and graphics.

By: Alexh

Alexh — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:08:27 +0000

Yes kevin, go for it. I’m typing this on my toshiba r100, which is the much older version of the r500. My r100 is light weight, good resolution, plenty fast for my school needs, perfect keyboard, and incredibly long battery life. Leaving brightness to 40%, using wifi, and listening to music with the extended battery I get around 7hrs out of it. Once I graduate and get a real job I want to buy the Toshiba r600. I envy nothing out of the netbooks out there, well except for the feeling of getting something new. Good luck and hope you get it.