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Wrapping up the R500-S5007V's specs is its SuperMulti 7mm, 8x read and rewrite DVD drive, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth support, a fingerprint reader and a battery boasting up to eight hours of power.
Ringing up at US$2,999, the R500-5007V's relatively hefty price makes up for its diminutive size.
"For solid state, that's not so expensive. For the PC market in general that's really expensive. That said, it can act as a halo product and bring attention to some of the other Toshiba offerings, which are also very interesting. This is really for your CEO types who run around a lot traveling on planes," Gownder pointed out
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The push in the ultraportable segment has led other hardware makers like Apple and Lenovo to sacrifice components in an effort to build a thinner, lighter machine. The MacBook Air, for instance, has no optical drive and features a single universal serial bus (USB) port. Toshiba appears to be headed in the opposite direction, retaining its optical drive and sporting three USB slots.
In order to fit in the laptop's DVD drive and meet its design and platform objectives for a thin system, Toshiba engineers had to rethink how they laid out their motherboard, Marking told TechNewsWorld.
Toshiba created a motherboard that was one-third the size of the motherboard in a standard 15-inch system. This was the major factor that enabled designers to fit more components into the computer.
The R500-S5007V will give the Macbook Air a run for its money, Forrester's Gownder said, but more importantly it will help stem the flow of first-time Mac buyers, roughly 50 percent of purchasers in the first quarter of 2008, according to numbers released by Apple.
"Insofar as people we're talking about who would be new to Macs, this is an important bulwark against that kind of defection. If you're willing to spend a good bit on an elegant laptop solution, you have an attractive option now compared to the Macbook Air," Gownder explained.
Computer manufacturers will increasingly straddle the line between ultraportable notebook PCs and the bare-bones ultra mobile PC (UMPC) categories as they design thinner and lighter machines.
"It's tough, and what they should be doing to navigate that is some really intensive thinking about what the consumer audience and business audience is, because it's very dependent on what application you're interested in working from," Gownder suggested.
Asus' UMPCs predicate their designs on the belief that users will not be doing anything that requires computational capability on the desktop, according to Gownder. Rather, it will be used to access cloud-based data, making Asus systems ideal as a third or fourth PC, he said.
HP took a different tack with the Mini-Note, offering the system at $599 with a very basic version of Windows Vista installed.
"This gives [users] access to a wider variety of computational abilities like simple photo editing or having your music on your laptop other than getting it only from the cloud," he continued.
Systems such as the R500-5007V give users the ability to use any and all applications with an emphasis on productivity, which is critical to "the road warrior and those who straddle the line between business and consumer," Gownder noted.
As the two segments continue to grow, manufacturers will "throw stuff out there to see what works."
That, however, will be a tough road, because they'll first need to understand what the audience for a particular design really is.