Toshiba Touch Screen Laptop | Protege M700
April 2, 2010 by admin
Filed under Touch Screen Laptop Reviews
The Toshiba Portege M700 Tablet PC is the company’s new Toshiba touch screen laptop with a 12.1 inch screen powered by a 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor. It separates itself from other touch screen laptops in its lightweight design. While it is not the lightest of pc tablets, 4.7lbs is very good comfortable to carry around. Also, that’s excluding the optional slice battery which adds much more battery life but increases the laptops weight and that means in actuality it’s weighs just as much as any standard touch screen laptop out there. If you don’t need an optical drive, the custom laptop builder on their website allows you to remove the DVD drive to save some weight.
The hinge design is like most other tablet PCs in that it swivels around and folds backward into full tablet mode. In notebook mode it functions more like a regular laptop than some of the other brands available in the market. The touch screen is very nicely responsive when used with the included pen.
The LED backlight display is one of the best screens compared to other touch screen laptops. And unlike some screens, this laptop doesn’t glare in brighter environments. The screen also automatically detects what mode the laptop is in so it will change orientation by itself. There are some programmable function buttons on the screen that comes in handy when in tablet mode. The laptop includes both touch screen and active digitizer technology to record anything you write or draw with the pen. The touch screen allows for navigation of windows with the pen or your fingers.
It comes with built-in wireless as all laptops do and the connectivity seems to be decently strong and volume controls in the form of a wheel on the front of the tablet which is convenient. The speakers itself are typical of laptop speakers and aren’t anything special.
The Toshiba M700 touch screen laptop is a good deal and is designed with functionality over aesthetics. Its minimalistic design offers all the typical features of any touch screen laptop.
