Toshiba on Tuesday added a 128GB solid state drive (SSD) to its strawweight laptop, the Portege R500-S5007V, which now measures a scant 0.77 inches thin and tips the scales at just 2.4 pounds. With the announcement, the Tokyo-headquartered electronics manufacturer now claims to own the world's lightest laptop and perhaps the thinnest this side of the MacBook Air.
The Portege R500 is outfitted with a 7mm DVD SuperMulti Drive to go with the new SSD, which unlike hard disk drives has no moving parts and is thus more durable. Of course, the new drive also comes with a pretty steep price hike.
Porteges with the SSD will cost $2,995, roughly $1,000 more than the versions with hard disks in the 120GB to 160GB range, according to media reports.
The notebook also features a 1.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo chip, battery life of up to eight hours, and a transreflective backlit LED screen, according to Toshiba.
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