Specs:
Laptop: Toshiba Portege A600-122
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300
Graphics adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Screen: 12.1 inches, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels and bright.
Weight: 1.5 kg (lighter than most laptops)
Pricing: Starts at $1,399 and up
Description:
The Toshiba Portege A600 is an attractive, stylish and lightweight laptop with a built-in HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) modem, which is simply the new protocol for mobile data transmission (MDA). HSDPA is a great improvement on W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access – 3G protocol). HSDPA can achieve data transmission speeds of 8 to 10 megabytes per second, which means faster video and music streaming, among other positive features.
This laptop has a 12.1-inch screen and can run multiple programs at the same time with alacrity.
Several features make it stand out from its predecessors:
o Environmentally friendly: The Portege A600 is ENERGY STAR 4.0 qualified and has achieved Gold status through the Green Electronics Council’s Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). For those who don’t know, ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy that supports energy efficient products that are affordable and help protect the environment. ambient.
o LED Display: The 12.1-inch display has an LED (Light Emitting Diode) that provides vibrant color backlit images with superior, sharp quality. Most LED-backlit displays sacrifice quality at the expense of thicker, heavier, and less portable laptops. The Portege A600 surprises, however, with all the backlight features, but it’s thin, light, and has excellent battery life/power consumption.
o Integrated optical drive: High Density Mounting Technology (HDMT) provides this Toshiba notebook with double-sided motherboard component mounting technology. This mass reduction technology is what has allowed the Portégé A600 to have a nice, slender shape and to be light and attractive. (There’s no need for extra cables, either.)
o Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Shared memory GPU and GM45 (Montevina) chipset are speed enabled due to the addition of two shaders and high core clock. This laptop doesn’t really support gaming, apart from DirectX 10 games, which can be played at very low settings. The video processor can help decode HD videos and provide effortless Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.
o Intel Core 2 Duo: (combines with Core Solo) which achieves 5-20% more speed without excessive power consumption. As an extra, it has a fourth decoder, amplified SSE unit and supplementary ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit).
o Combo USB/eSATA Sleep-and-Charge Port: The port on the Portégé A600 combines two functions:
1. Ability to charge external USB devices regardless of whether the Portégé A600 is on/off, in sleep/hibernate mode.
2. Data transfer from eSATA external hard drives: five times faster than USB 2.0.
o Toshiba EasyGuard Technology with PC Health Monitor: Alerts the user when the system needs attention. This feature keeps track of the hard drive, battery life, temperature, etc., and is a vital part of the Portégé A600 as it ensures hard drive protection. The keyboard is spill resistant.