Specs:
Laptop: Toshiba Portege A600-122
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300
Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Display: 12.1 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels and shiny.
Weight: 1.5 kilograms (lighter than most laptops)
Rates: from $ 1399 upwards

Description:
The Toshiba Portege A600 is a good-looking, smooth and light laptop with a built-in modem HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) - which isJust the new protocol for mobile data transmission (MDA). HSDPA) is a significant improvement on W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access - 3G protocol. HSDPA can achieve data rates of 8-10 megabytes per second, which means faster video and music streaming, among other positive features.

The notebook has a 12.1 inch display and is capable of running multiple programs at once with joy.

Several characteristics make it different from itsPrevious:

• Environmentally friendly: The Portege A600 is ENERGY STAR 4.0 rated achieved gold status through the Green Electronics Council's Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). For the uninformed, ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy to promote energy-efficient products are, cost-friendly and help protect the environment.

• LED Display: The 12.1-inch display has an LED(Light Emitting Diode), the back-lit living color images provides a sharp, superior quality. Most of the backlight LED indicators at the expense of quality at the expense of thicker, heavier and less easily portable laptops. The Portege A600 surprises, but with all the features of the backlight is slim, lightweight and has excellent battery life / power consumption.

• Integrated Optical Drive: High Density Mounting Technology (HDMT) gives this Toshiba notebook-duo-sidedMotherboard component mounting technology. This mass-reducing technology is what to select the Portégé A600, so you have a beautiful and slim figure and is light and good looking. (There is also no need for extra cables).

• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: The shared-memory GPU and GM45 chipset (Montevina) is activated, the speed through the addition of two shaders and a high core clock. This notebook is not really supported by games, apart from DirectX 10 gameswhich are playable on very low settings. The video-processor support for HD video decode and provide effortless Blu-ray playback with slow CPU's.

• Intel Core 2 Duo (with Core Solo coupled), the 5-20% more speed without reaching the need for more power consumption. As an additional feature, it is fourth decoder, SSE-unit and further strengthened ALU (Arithmetic Logical Unit).

• Sleep-and-Charge USB / eSATA Combo Port: The port of the Portégé A600 combines twoFeatures:
1. Ability to deliver an external USB devices regardless of whether Portégé A600 is an on / off, in sleep / hibernation mode.
2. Data transfer from external eSATA hard drives, five times faster than USB 2.0.

• Toshiba's EasyGuard Technology with PC Health Monitor: alerts the user when the system will need attention. This function remembers the hard drive, battery life, temperature, etc., and forms an essential part of the Portégé A600, ensure HDDProtection. The keyboard is spill-resistant.

Judy Wolvaardt

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