Toshiba Portégé 3500
The Toshiba Portégé 3500 looks like your everyday notebook. It’s quite thin and light for a notebook only weighing 1.8kg, however for a Tablet PC it feels a little too heavy.
The Toshiba has a reasonably fast processor even for a standard notebook. The Pentium III 1.333GHz processor comes with 256MB of RAM that can be expanded to 1024MB. The slate-style Tablet PCs we looked at only supported up to 768MB of RAM. The Toshiba also comes with a 40GB hard disk drive that spins at 5400 RPM.
The Toshiba also has a large 12.1in screen that can be rotated and folded back over the keyboard to form a very powerful Tablet PC. The Toshiba doesn’t use a docking station, but like the other tablets in order to keep its weight down it doesn’t integrate a CD-ROM drive. You can however attach an external one to one of its USB ports (the external drive is an optional extra).
In terms of performance, the Toshiba was the fastest of the lot. This was hardly surprising since it featured the fastest processor. Battery life was also quite good. Despite it having a large screen and a faster processor than the other Tablet PCs, it still managed to do well in this area.
| Product: | Toshiba Portégé 3500 |
| Price: | AU$4,840 |
| Vendor: | Toshiba |
| Phone: | 13 30 70 |
| Web: | www.toshiba.com.au |
| Interoperability: |
½
Features CF and SD media slots and VGA port. |
| Futureproofing: |
½
Large display, large HDD, max RAM 1GB. |
| ROI: |
½Fast, good features, but heavy. |
| Service: |
3-year warranty. |
| Rating: |
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4%
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You really need to date your articles. I is a pain when Internet Articles are not date stamped. Clearly many of the rveiews are out of date or do not include the laterst products. Tablet Pc's is one such example. I would like a review of the Toshiba M200. I agree that when Tabet PCs are integrated into the Laptop market they will tak off. I also would be interetsed in a version that supports a blue-tooth Mobile phone built in along with a DVD drive for those long hall flights and bring hotel rooms. Oh... One other thing would be a Voice modem that can support an Aswering Machine when the Computer is left on at hme or in the hotel room.