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    Toshiba Launches First SSD Laptop with Half-TB Storage

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    May 14, 2009
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      Toshiba’s Digital Products Division on May 14 unveiled the world’s first laptop with more than a half-terabyte of solid-state storage capacity, but at this point, it isn’t exactly cheap.

      The Portege R600-ST4203, which becomes available for general release in early June, features a second-generation 512GB eSATA SSD from Toshiba’s own fabrication plant. Initial price tag: $3,500.

      In only two years, Toshiba has increased its SSD capacities on laptops from 32GB to 512GB. The new laptop weighs in at 2.4 pounds, is about three-quarters of an inch thick, and has a LED backlit indoor/outdoor transreflective 12.1-inch diagonal widescreen display.
      Toshiba’s own second-generation SSD uses multilevel cell NAND flash memory which increases the density of the disk to allow more storage space. This new, denser processor enables faster boot time, application loading and up to three times faster access times, compared to a conventional 128GB solid state drive (SSD), Toshiba said.
      SSDs in general feature up to 100 times faster data access times than regular spinning hard disks.
      As in all SSDs, the lack of moving parts reduces noise and the risk of mechanical failure. Toshiba claims that the Portege R600 is impact resistant and designed to withstand higher impacts than a conventional HDD.
      The new laptop is powered by an Intel Ultra-Low Voltage Core 2 Duo SU9400 processor, features an eSATA/USB Combo Sleep and Charge port, and has the Windows Vista Business operating system pre-installed.
      “Toshiba invests more in research and development than any other laptop company,” said Carl Pinto, Toshiba’s vice president of digital product development.
      “We recognize that the market for SSD technology is growing, and to meet that market need, we produced a high performance laptop with the largest solid-state storage capacity available today.”
      The Portege R600-ST4203 will become available in early June exclusively on this site for about $3,500.

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      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor-in-Chief of eWEEK and responsible for all the publication's coverage. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he has distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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