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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
"It's a very elegant solution. I think they deserve a lot of credit for being able to engineer something like this. Toshiba has that engineering expertise to be able to be innovative," he continued.
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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 battery also held its capacity well in temperature extremes. Toshiba said its tests found that it gives out 80 percent of its power capacity at minus 40 degrees and 95 percent when tested at temperatures as high as 113 degrees after 1,000 charge and discharge cycles.