Pound for pound, inch for inch, the Toshiba Portégé 2010 is one of the most effective ultraportables out there...The 2010 ships with an impressive 512MB of memory and a second battery that attaches to the underside of the unit...The 2010 is by no means a perfect system, however...
And the Portégé 2010 doesn't win any records for performance, either...For example, the AC-power supply bumps the 2010's total weight up to 4.2 pounds, but leaving the big battery and the AC adapter at home cuts the total weight to just 2.6 pounds...We found a few aspects of the Portégé 2010's design annoying, however...To minimize power consumption,...
We see a lot of notebooks at PC Authority, but like the BenQ JoyBook 8000 (page 37), the Portege2010 was an immediate crowd pleaser when it was removed from it's shipping materials, garnering lots of "oohs" and "aahs" from techies and non-techies alike...Evoking similarities to the Sharp PC-AR10 (reviewed March 2001, page 72) which we described at the time as...
Shame the pad is not as good as the one on my old Latitude LT, which was a rebranded Sharp Actius I believe and one of the greatest lightweights ever, with bonus 6+ hour 2nd battery...none Toshiba may make good products, but their support is the worst i have ever come across...Good Job Toshiba! The R100 (Centrino version of 2010 - released May 2003) is great! Performance is great...
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