In spite of the recent rave reviews for its ultraportable convertible tablet, which seems Portege M200, Toshiba on a step backwards with its new Portege R400 S4931 have. It is for the most part successful - and stylish-looking - notebook, with good speed in its class. But the screen is too thick and no more good than Notepad. Considering that some of its other features would have been better as well, running recommend this notebook would be jaw-dropping $3.499 difficult, even if it does not cost (stand: April 11, 2007).
A robust magnesium polycarbonate unit, the R400 S4931 weighs light £ 3.8 - not with a dual-layer DVD-burners, you separately to set such as a USB peripheral. A 1, the add on 4000 milliampere battery includes also the unit the specified weight, 9-pound bottom slice included and how should the primary 4000-milliampere battery. We extend both batteries needed a period of 5.5 hours of the R400 S4931 in our battery tests to reach. Together, the batteries of the system find the weight up to nearly 6 pounds.Others Toshiba laptop batteries:Toshiba PA3356U-3BAS battery,Toshiba PA3356U-3BRS battery,Toshiba PA3357U-3BRL battery,Toshiba PA3382U-1BRS battery,Toshiba PA3383U-1BRS battery,Toshiba PA3384U-1BRS battery.
These design decisions not chiefly the R400 S4931 as a notebook to distract. It has a large keyboard (thanks to the battery slice) and a vastly bright LED-backlit and 12, 1-inch screen, comfortable angle. Fashionistas will appreciate the eye-catching black and white case. On the other hand, Tablet is a little cumbersome for users find the extra weight, and the pursuit of the additional pieces is a dispute.
Like many other wireless-enabled laptops, the R400 S4931 has no modem connection, but it lacks even the next-generation ExpressCard slot and a shared-memory-card slot. It is equipped for wireless communication, broadband completely but with integrated Bluetooth, WiFi and Verizon EVDO. A one-line status LCD on the front of the device uses to keep wireless networking and the new Vista SideShow ability, to on-the-go professionals in their next appointment to zero. The LCD synchronized and shows calendar alerts and status information email and Wi-Fi activity, battery life, and the time, even if the laptop into suspend mode or completely switched off. Since the LCD is visible at any time, you can stay loop with only a quick look in the communication.
For the use as a tablet, the R400 S4931 screen easily rotates 180 degrees and keyboard to write, but it includes against which no visual cues (such as the arrow the most tablets) in the vicinity of the hinge are printed, so that you could turn it the wrong way. Tablet buttons are abundant and easy to make, easier to navigate your work in tablet mode. Not everything worked smoothly, though. The switch to Tablet mode automatically rotates the screen in the portrait, but changing the alignment then can be troublesome. We had the orientation repeatedly press the key below the LCD while holding and shaking the device into his new position, and the picture took several seconds to change.
The screen is glossy, scratch-resistant coating makes great the notebook display and writing on it in tablet mode was fairly easy, as soon as we the additional thickness was used. But the shiny layer seemed to get on the path of taps. We had to tap hard and sometimes more than once to register decisions.
Performance is another weak area for the r = S4931. Equipped with a 1, 2-GHz Core Duo U2500 processor and 2 GB RAM, posted it to a fair WorldBench 6 beta 2 score of 48. His slow 4200 rpm hard disk probably their pedestrian contributed to performance.
The R400 S4931 is stylish, and the side LED and wireless-focused can design leading the way. But too many inconveniences design, along with difficult Tablet input, make this model of one of the rare unsuccessful Toshiba efforts.
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