New Libretto W100

At long last, Toshiba has revealed it’s new Libretto laptop that will be succeed the U100, which whilst being a fantastic machine, is a little dated at almost 5 years since the original release date.

Toshiba has now revealed information about their new Libretto W100 laptop, which is almost more of a cross between a tablet computer and a laptop.

Official Website http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/libretto/W100

There is a video of the new machine at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=164UUxegmvU&feature=player_embedded

Announced price 1100 Euro.

- Dual 7.0-inch diagonal multi-touch displays (1024 x 600)
- 6-mode virtual keyboard with haptic response
- Windows® 7 Home Premium operating system
- Intel® Pentium® U5400 processor1 (1.2GHz)
- 2GB DDR3 memory
- 62GB Solid State Drive
- 1.0 megapixel HD Webcam with Toshiba Face Recognition
- WLAN 802.11 b/g/n wireless
- Bluetooth 2.1+EDR5
- MicroSD card slot
- One USB 2.0 port
- 8-cell battery
- 7.95″ (W) x 4.84″(D) x 1.2″(H) = 200 x 123 x 30 mm => about the size of my L110 !
- 1.8 lbs = 800g

(thanks Hal|dor for digging up the specs)

It is interesting that Toshiba decided to use Windows 7 for this laptop, based on it’s size and touch nature, Android would seem like a very good fit, although I’m sure someone will port it regardless of whether it ships as a Windows-only device or not.