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posted on 19 June 2008 12:11

Toshiba's new R500-S5007V notebook is 0.77-Inches thick art its thinnest point, and weighs just 2.4 pounds with its 128GB solid state drive (SSD).

The Macbook Air weighs 3 pounds and Lenovo's Thinkpad X300 weighs around 2.93 pounds, so Tosh has quite an edge in the weight stakes.

The specs are:-

- 7mm DVD SuperMulti drive.
- Widescreen 12.1-inches transreflective LED backlit display letting daylight to pass through the screen and enable the LED backlight to be turned off.
- In excess of 8 hours battery life.
- Encryption and fingerprint reader access.
- Windows Vista Business (32-bit version) or XP Professional
- Intel Core 2 Duo Processor U7700
- 1.33GHz, 2MB L2, 533MHz FSB with 64 bit
- 2GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM
-128GB Serial ATA solid state drive(1)
- 12.1-inch diagonal widescreen high brightness display ------1280 x 800 (WXGA) - Transreflective backlit LED
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
- 7mm, 8xDVD-SuperMulti (+/-R Single Layer) drive supporting 9 formats
- Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN
- Intel PRO/1000 - 10/100/1000 Ethernet
- Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
- 3-Year Standard Limited Warranty

The price is said to be $2,999. The specifications may vary from those above.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}