Touching Toshiba
Toshiba has announced its launch of its ninth generation of Tablet PC product line: the Portégé M700. This is the company's first Tablet PC to incorporate a touch screen LED backlit display, and supports both fingertip input capabilities and traditional pen-based input.
“Toshiba's Portégé M700 Tablet PC provides mobile professionals with an exceptionally intuitive Tablet PC to meet their mobile computing needs,” said Jeff Barney, vice president of marketing, Digital Products Division, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. “Building upon many years of successful Toshiba Tablet PC platforms, the Portégé M700 incorporates our customer's most requested features resulting in Toshiba's most powerful and versatile Tablet PC to date.”
The Portégé® M700 detects the presence of a digital pen or a user's fingertip, automatically switching between the different input methods, with the digital pen given priority when both inputs are simultaneously detected.
Improved viewing
The series incorporates an LED backlit display with anti-glare coating, which allows it to be viewed in a wide range of environments both indoors and outdoors. The LED backlit display produces superb image quality and rich color saturation indoors. While outdoors the anti-glare display delivers a clear, easy-to-view image.
The resolution offered by the widescreen 12.1-inch WXGA display is designed to yield 30% more detail than a standard 12.1-inch XGA display. This affords users enhanced clarity for viewing multimedia files and multiple page documents side by side. The display mirrors the layout of a standard sheet of paper when in portrait mode to give users a familiar writing workspace.
On the inside
The Portégé M700 series uses high-performance Intel® Centrino Pro processor technology, including Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Intel 965 Express chipset, Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN supporting draft 802.11n, and Intel Active Management Technology (AMT 2.6). Intel's AMT 2.6 delivers the ability to remotely deploy systems and supply proactive security and maintenance measures. This provides the network manager better control of mobile computing assets to minimize user downtime and provide greater efficiency at the office or when traveling.
The Ultra SlimBay® on the Portégé M700 gives users the flexibility to change the configuration of the Tablet PC to adjust to their individual user needs. With support for an internal optical drive, second hard drive or weight saver, the Ultra SlimBay helps eliminate the bulk and inconvenience of carrying additional external components. The Portégé M700 comes with a DVD SuperMulti Drive and weight saver as part of the standard configuration.
The latch-less design
To simplify the transition from notebook computer to Tablet PC, the Portégé M700 design incorporates an improved hinge and display guide/peg mechanism as well as latch-less design to provide greater ease of use and industry leading stability. This combination of features ensures the display is securely locked into position in both notebook and Tablet PC mode.
The inclusion of the latch-less design enables Toshiba to cleanly integrate a Webcam and microphone on the bezel of the machine. The 1.3 megapixel Webcam provides mobile professionals the flexibility to communicate face-to-face with anyone when out of the office or traveling. It can also take still photos, record video clips and record audio notes.
Featuring the full suite of Toshiba's third-generation EasyGuard™ technology, the Portégé M700 brings a more reliable and secure mobile computing experience that includes:
- HDD Protection
- Shock Absorbing Design
- Spill Resistant Keyboard
Additional information about Toshiba's EasyGuard technology is available at www.EasyGuard.Toshiba.com.
In addition to providing a reliable and secure mobile computing experience, Toshiba has incorporated several value-added features, including two “Sleep-and- Charge” USB ports. These ports allow users to charge compatible electronic devices, such as select cell phones or MP3 players whether the system is on or off. The Sleep and Charge USB ports eliminate the bulk and inconvenience of carrying extra chargers to recharge mobile devices. Toshiba's Portégé M700 is compatible with several Portégé M400 accessories including: Express Port Replicator, digital pen, reserve pen, battery and secondary battery.
More information and complete product specifications for Portégé M700 models are available at www.toshibadirect.com.
Source: eMediaWire.com
