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Toshiba Portégé A100 review

8.0

Editors' Rating

Excellent

10.0

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Perfect

Typical price:£ 799

Verdict

The Portégé A100 is portable and practical, but perhaps a little pricey for what you get. It needs speeding up and fitting with fast wireless networking to justify its current price tag... Read Full Review.

Pros

  • More ports than the typical sub-notebook
  • Internal optical drive

Cons

  • Not very fast
  • Last year’s 802.11b wireless standard
  • Plastic lid

Key Specs

Processor manufacturer: Intel
Processor model: Pentium M
Clock speed: 1.4 GHz
RAM installed: 256 MB
Wireless LAN: 802.11b
Hard drive size: 40 GB
Graphics processor: Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (integrated)
Graphics RAM: 96 MB
Display diagonal size: 12.1 in
Dimensions (W x H x D): 28.8x3.5x23.8 cm
Weight: 2.2 kg
Operating system: Windows XP Professional

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