CULV notebooks (thin, light, long battery life) are slowly becoming the new hot segment in mobile computing. They won’t be as hot as netbooks but they’ll be a better performing alternative.
Toshiba is coming out with an 11″ and 13″ slim and light notebooks under the Satellite T100 series.
Toshiba Latitude T115
11.6″ widescreen HD LED w/ backlit display
Windows 7 Home Premium operating system
Intel Pentium SU4100 or Intel Celeron 7435 @ 1.3GHz
up to 8GB DDR3 RAM
250GB HDD and higher
WiFi 802.11b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
eSATA/USB combo port with USB Sleep-and-Charge
HDMI port
webcam
5-in-1 card reader
6-cell battery
3.49 lbs.
Windows 7 Home Premium
Toshiba Latitude T135
13.3″ widescreen HD LED w/ backlit display
Intel Pentium SU4100 or Intel Pentium SU2700 @ 1.3GHz
up to 8GB DDR3 RAM
250GB HDD and higher
WiFi 802.11b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
eSATA/USB combo port with USB Sleep-and-Charge
HDMI port
webcam
5-in-1 card reader
6-cell battery
3.88 lbs.
Windows 7 Home Premium
Starting price for the 11″ is $449 and $599 for the 13″ but that depends on the upgrades that will come with it and the choice of processor. These models will go head to head with the HP DV2 and Acer’s Timeline series.
one more for toshiba
is this correct? Toshiba Latitude? as in copying Dell sub-branding? is it not Toshiba Satellite?
http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/Satellite/T100/T115-S1105
It’s now available. Just saw it at Octagon Megamall. The Toshiba Portege T110-P110 comes in Nova Red or Black Fusion Finish, is preloaded with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Basic and sells for Php39,990.
@Pusang Kulog
That’s not a CULV-based laptop because that has an AMD Athlon Neo processor, but yes, it should have much better graphics performance.
They are coming this October. No definite date though. Check out videos of the upcoming Satellite T100 Series and the new Qosmio X500 Corei7 gaming laptops at http://www.youtube.com/user/toshibalaptops
Wow hanep sa specs ah.. so 64-bit na ang OS neto? woooooooot!
The 11.6 incher is the T115, the 13.3″ is T135
So consumers will have to choose between CULV or Ion. I’m gonna go with Ion powered notebook because handle fullscreen flash HD and some 3D games.
@DJ – Thanks for the reply…
I’m looking right now aat a Gateway LT3102i / LT3103i (11in. UMPC + ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1270)… Isn’t this a CULV? It’s hard to really know the differences between laptop categories these days… :D
Anyway, if this Gateway is a CULV, wouldn’t the ATI Graphics be better than what the Toshiba laptop blogged here has?
3.88lbs is heavy. =(
Heavy —-
Yuga any word if these CULVs will come to the Philippines? I only know the Acer Timeline, but I haven’t seen the others yet.
@Sir Abe, Thanks for donating last night! We sent out about 10,000 packages yesterday alone. :-)
@Pusang Kulog
I don’t think you can expect anything better than Intel integrated graphics with CULV-based systems.
I’m wondering how much these would cost when ti arrives in our country.
I wonder what graphics chip is in these units…
I wonder what graphics chip is in this units…
Hmmmm… at least they could include an optical drive for the 13″ =)