Toshiba Portege R500 vs Apple MacBook Air

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Apple and Toshiba notebook that promote the andalannya, the Macbook Air and the Portege R500. From the target market and specifications, both as large-digadang grip required the businessman concerned will appreciate the design and mobility. Notebooks incoming Portege Series range has a super-thin design and lightweight magnesium with the chasis to make them remain firm.

Design is not impresses also are presented by the Apple MacBook Air. Aspect dimension be measured may not be too many expectations as ultraportable, but he entered in the category of small-sized notebook. With a thickness of only 0.76 inches, Apple as a call for the notebook in the world.

Design and engineering of making MacBook Air extraordinary. Effects of the first MacBook Air aluminum chasis is the same used in the MacBook Pro and fingerprint as standard equipment. When appointed MacBook Air weight reached more than 1.36kg. To make aluminum construction feels very solid and be solid when, and easily recycled.

While for the technical specifications, Portege R500 to be with the Core 2 Duo with a speed of 1.2Ghz and 1GB memory installed.


The technical specification of MacBook Air by dual-core processor will be supplied by Intel and with a 80GB hard drive memory capacity of 2GB. But unfortunately, by pursuing the design It is super, this notebook should limit the number of important facilities such as there is only one USB port, RAM and Hard Drive that can not be upgraded and does not own any Firewire ports,
Ethernet and Optical Drive. Overall, this product will only rely on technology Wi-Fi or other wireless technology as a network. Nevertheless, many praise the positive get the notebook at $ 1,799 USD this.

The interest in the Portege R500 is available media store 160 gigabytes hard drive capacity and it is the first notebook that has a solid state drive (SSD) with a single 128 gigabytes. SSD technology is able to make a notebook more realible with better performance and require more power sedikir, or energy efficient. Moreover, notebook worth around U $ 3,000 has a hard drive protection, spill resistant keyboad, and fingerprint security suites.