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Toshiba Italy has announced the availability of the Portege M800 notebook in all of Europe sometime in during Q3 of 2008. Sporting a stylish design with white pearl finish, Toshiba is marketing this product towards business professionals who are always mobile, as attested by its light weight, which is a little less than 4.5-pounds.

Like the other Toshiba Satellite laptops, the Portege M800 was also treated with Toshiba’s Fusion design that provides for a smooth and slightly rugged exterior finish. Now, here’s the skinny on the other features of the M800; a 2GHz Core 2 Duo T5750 processor, 1GB RAM, 13.3-inch WXGA display with a 1280 x 800 resolution, 250GB SATA hard drive, Super multi-DVD and running Windows Vista Home Premium.

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Toshiba has announced that it is now shipping its new A300 series laptops with three models to boot – the A300-S6845, the A305-S6839 and the A305D-S6831. These models boast of Toshiba’s new Fusion design with horizon pattern which is blended with the laptops’ chassis.

The three laptops are equipped with Toshiba’s Sleep-and-Charge USB ports, LED-luminated “Feature Touch” multimedia command keys, and built-in webcam with Toshiba’s facial recognition software.  Plus the laptops come equipped with a 15.4-inch widescreen TFT LCD with a native resolution of 1280 x 800.
Aside from these similar features, the three laptops feature their respective technical details which also determine their unit prices.

The Satellite A300-S6845 retails for $1,299.99 and is equipped with 2.10GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 3GB of RAM, and a 400GB hard drive. The Satellite A300-S6839 retails for $1,149.99 and has a 2.10GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 3GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. And finally the Satellite A305D-S6831 retails for $949.99 and has a 2.2GHz AMD Turion X2 Dual Core Technology processor, 3GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive.

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