Toshiba’s Digital Products Division today announced the addition of a 128GB solid state drive (SSD) into the innovative Portégé laptop series. Toshiba’s 2.4 pound Portégé R500-S5007V is the world’s lightest laptop with a 128GB SSD and DVD SuperMulti drive and one of the world’s thinnest with a SSD and DVD SuperMulti drive.
Utilizing the industry’s largest solid state drive capacity of 128GB, Toshiba’s Portégé R500-S5007V provides ample storage space for carrying critical company data and sensitive personal data while traveling. With no moving parts, SSD technology provides customers with an enhanced level of reliability, durability and system responsiveness.
To provide added convenience and on-the-go productivity, the Portégé R500 series was the world’s first laptop to ship with a 7mm DVD SuperMulti drive. The built-in optical drive reduces the Portégé R500-S5007V’s travel weight by providing users with an all-in-one solution, eliminating the bulk and inconvenience of carrying additional drives and cables.
The Portégé R500 series incorporates the world’s first widescreen 12.1-inch transreflective LED backlit display, a feature that embraces the variety of lighting scenarios, so the display produces images rich in color saturation and superb quality both indoors and outdoors. Outdoors, the transreflective screen lets the sun’s light pass through and reflects it out to bring the images on the display to life so users can switch off the LED backlighting while outdoors and decrease overall battery consumption.
The Portégé R500 series uses Toshiba’s proprietary High Density Mounting Technology process to enable dual-sided motherboard component mounting. This innovative technology produces a motherboard that is one-third the size of a mainstream 15.4-inch notebook’s motherboard, while still providing users the same functionality.
For executive durability and security, the Portégé R500-S5007V incorporates Toshiba’s EasyGuard™ Technology including advanced encryption, multilevel passwords and a fingerprint reader. These innovative features help keep confidential information secure. The elimination of all mechanical moving parts from the hard drive further enhances the level of reliability and durability.
On the Russian market the model will get the Portégé R500-12P index.
The Portege R500-S5007V specs: 
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