Toshiba Portégé Z830 price and specs, a very thin laptop for under $1000

After Samsung released a thin laptop aka ultrabook to compete with the MacBook Air, Toshiba has come into competition with the Portege Z830 specifications like the following:

• Thickness 15.9mm
• 13.3 "LED- backlit display (1366 × 768) • 2.5 pounds
• Intel i3, i5, i7 processors
• Onboard Intel HD 3000 Graphics
• 128GB SSD
• Magnesium alloy chassis with honeycomb structure for rigidity
• Backlit, spill-resistant keyboard
• 2xUSB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0 (right side), HDMI and VGA out
• 1.3 -megapixel Webcam
• Fingerprint Reader (optional, on the B2B model)

RAM is unknown. Toshiba told Techcrunch that they will set the price of this laptop is under U.S. $ 1,000, cheap enough for a thin laptop.

They also claimed the sound system has been enhanced, thin laptops usually have an ugly sound because of the limited places unuk good speaker driver.

The possibility of this laptop will be available November. But hold on, because it looks like Asus, Acer and others will also release ultrabook before the end of the year.

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Toshiba TG01 using Windows Phone 7, is it possible?

You may remember Wondows Mobile smartphone which is produced two years ago, Toshiba TG-01. This turns out older smartphones can use the Windows 7 Phone.
It is actually quite reasonable because the specifications are very supportive of the 1GHz processor and 256MB RAM. First phone using Windows Mobile 6.1, and can update to Windows Mobile 6.5. Apparently there are now trying to use Windows 7 Phone and succeed.

It is not known the purpose of the use of WP7 on this smartphone, whether for internal testing or Toshiba that are being experimented with WP7? Of course not everything goes smoothly, it was reported that the camera does not work, so pinch to zoom and matters related to multitouch, because Toshiba TG-01 still uses a resistive display types.

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