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The new Portege R400 was presented in the last CeBIT Exhibition at Hannover, Germany last month. Featuring 12.1-inch WXGA display, this new tablet pc comes with stylish design and white cover. The tablet powered by Intel Cetrino Duo Mobiletechnology, Intel 945GM Express chipset, Intel 950 GMA with 128MB DDR2-RAM UMA (256 MB max, using Dynamic Video Memory Technology) as the GPU, 80 GB HDD, and 2GB DDR2-RAM which expandable up to 4GB.

Unlike the cool design and excellent features, the performance considered relatively lower than expected, especially its short battery life (less than 2 hours, according to ZDNet.com). Regarding connectivity, the new Toshiba Tablet PC Portege R400 equipped with innovative toshiba’s own technology named Toshiba’s ConfigFree® software which automatically connect you to the strongest, fastest signal, switching between Verizon EVDO, Wi-Fi®, Gigabit and Ethernet connections.

The Portege R400 has small dimension 12 x 9.4 x 1.3 and weigh only 3.7 lbs. Another interesting feature is Toshiba Edge Display which has function displaying email receive whether the computer is on or in suspend mode, thank to Microsoft® Active Notifications as it offered by Toshiba for Portege R400 users. And finally, its comes with pre-installed Windows vista OS and costs $2600 for the base configuration but costs more if you prefer installing windows vista ultimate. [source avingnews]

Overview by TechDigest:

Toshiba has managed to successfully solve one problem with tablet PCs - the flimsy screen - but not others such as the overly reflective screen.
It’s a stylish design, but it comes at a price. At £1,573 it’s expensive for what you get and it’s a little short on the connectivity front.