An Inexpensive Thin And Light Notebook
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Thin-and-light notebooks are very popular with business travelers and offer the best balance available anywhere between performance and Portability. These powerful but extremely portable small computers usually have hard-working mobile chips like the Pentium M from Intel, which gives them the sort of performance that easily rivals that of larger notebooks that may be up to twice their weight.

When you consider other additional features of the Toshiba Satellite M50-S418TD, like the wireless networking, 14-inch displays and combo the CD-RW/DVD drives you quickly realize why this has become the hottest-selling category of notebooks. It has actually been especially popular with entrepreneurs and businesspersons.

Until now the greatest hindrance for many has been the price. The premium charged for thin-and-lights usually pushes up the price substantially and beyond the realistic range of many. Now that has changed.

The Toshiba Satellite M50-s418TD is without doubt one of the most inexpensive thin-and-light notebooks in the market. More so when its’ performance versus its’ weight and size is taken into account. It weighs in at a mere 4.9 pounds but can be purchased at only around $850

Many folks find this a real bargain when the loaded powerful specs, which easily rival those of many a desktop, are also considered.

The basic specs for the Toshiba Satellite M50-S418TD include the M 1.4GHz processor from Intel Celeron and the RAM of 256 MB. All this goes with a 40 GB EIDE Hard Drive.

This model also includes a DVD burner that is double layer. Dual layer drives entered the market in late 2004 and have swiftly become the norm. These drives have the ability to write to single-sided discs that have two data layers and can hold 8.5 GB of data. That’s plenty of data in fact enough to hold an entire full length feature film or movie. Prices for DL drives have fallen dramatically and are now in the $150 range

The dimensions of this notebook are 13.5 x 9.5 x 1.2 (W x D x H).

The Toshiba Satellite M50-S418TD also features an Intel GMA900 graphics with a generous 128MB of Video RAM.