Toshiba Portege A600 - New Mainstream Ultraportable

Toshiba announced yesterday the Portege A600 mainstream ultraportable laptop PC, featuring a 12.1-inch display and Intel Centrino 2 technology.

The Toshiba Portege A600 weighs 3.2 pounds. It’s 1.18-inches thin at its thinnest edge, according to the PC maker.

The company currently offers only one A600 model – the A600-S2201, priced at $1,399. It comes with the Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 processor at 1.2GHz, GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics, 3GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB hard drive, and built-in DVD burner. The notebook’s widescreen display has a resolution of 1280-by-800 pixels and LED backlight.

Along with embedded web camera and fingerprint reader, the Portege A600-S2201 provides 802.11a/g/n wireless, Bluetooth, and Gigabit Ethernet LAN connections, two USB ports plus an additional USB/eSATA combo port with “Sleep and Charge” functionality, an ExpressCard slot, SD Card reader, and VGA output.

The A600-S2201 comes with Windows Vista Business OS.

The laptop can be purchased now through ToshibaDirect.