While Toshiba’s stateside reps had us convinced its 14-inch Ultrabook wouldn’t see the light of day until sometime in June, that message of withholding apparently didn’t make it Down Under. Outed by its Australian arm today, that would-be Portege is actually the company’s Satellite U840. We already knew the electronics giant had intended on shuffling this Windows 7 machine out under that brand umbrella back at CES, but now we have a ,500 AUD (about ,608 USD) price tag to go with a list of confirmed specs. Officially on deck for this aluminum-bodied laptop are an Intel Core i5-2467M processor and HD Graphics 3000 GPU, 720p-capable 1366 x 768 LED display, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB of storage, in addition to ports for HDMI, mic, headphone and USB (1x USB 3.0 and 2x USB 2.0). We still don’t know much about the capacity of the six cell battery powering this svelte notebook entry or a concrete landing date for that matter. But from the looks of this Aussie product page, that release is creeping mighty close.

Toshiba Satellite U840 goes official for Australia, still waiting on its US passport originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Toshiba Thrive 7-inch slate officially drops tomorrow, December 11th originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While we’ve already seen Ultrabooks from a bevy of brand name manufacturers — Toshiba (which we caught on video below), Lenovo, ASUS and Acer — ODMs are now joining the thin and light party here at IDF. There’s one catch, however: this row of Ultrabooks from the likes of Pegatron, LG, Invetec and Foxconn aren’t nearly as svelte as their branded counterparts, leading us to believe that Intel’s specs aren’t quite as rigorous as we’d originally thought. Video proof after the break.

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Ultrabooks invade IDF 2011, Toshiba Portege Z830 makes cameo (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here’s one that momentarily escaped our attention during all the IFA hullabaloo: the Qosmio DX730, which Toshiba says borrows both its design and ‘Resolution+’ picture processing technology from Regza TVs. The base model bears a rather lousy Pentium processor, but the range also includes Core i3 and i5 models, along with up to 6GB of RAM, 1TB of storage, a Blu-ray drive, TV tuner and Onkyo speakers. The multi-touch Full HD 23-inch panel also works in its favor. Pricing has yet to be announced, although Akihabara reports a similar bunch of models in Japan starting at a rather incredible ¥120,000 (00). We’ll have to rely on the Dell Vostro 360 to keep Toshiba’s expected margins firmly in check.

Toshiba Qosmio DX730 all-in-one brings Regza styles to your desktop originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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