New Toshiba Notebooks Well Guarded

Written by Adam Gosling

Thursday, 07 September 2006

Toshiba's latest laptop offerings for the Australian market all feature Toshiba's comprehensive EasyGuard suite of security and protection features. The EasyGuard features include things like hard drive shock protection, spill resistant keyboards and the like. The new notebooks are all based on Core Solo/Duo rather than Core 2 Duo processors from Intel. The company says the decision to offer the features in its latest notebooks is a big to "raise the industry benchmark in notebook reliability". There are three new business notebooks in the range; the fully ruggedised Tecra A8 desktop-replacement, the ultra-portable Portégé M500 and the Tecra M7 14 inch tablet. First launched in 2005, Toshiba EasyGuard, provides enhanced security, system protection and connectivity through proprietary design features including a patented, three-dimensional HDD accelerometer and shock absorbent casing, a spill resistant keyboard and improved casework design. An 18 month evaluation by Toshiba indicates that EasyGuard features improve notebook reliability by up to three times over previous models. To underpin its confidence in the reliability of the products, Toshiba is providing an EasyGuard Replacement Guarantee for all Tecra M, S and Portégé models purchased between 21 July 2006 and 31 October 2006. Under this guarantee, Toshiba will automatically replace any notebook if a main component fails within warrantee. This is in addition to standard warranties available on all notebooks. "By their mobile nature, notebooks are subject to greater amounts of stress than their desktop equivalents," said Justin White, product marketing manager, Toshiba ISD.  "By looking for these sorts of features, users can still achieve the greater productivity and flexibility associated with mobile working whilst protecting themselves against data loss and downtime." Spec Check - Tecra A8 Spec Check - Portégé M500 Spec Check - Tecra M7 www.isd.toshiba.com.au Related news items Toshiba Gets Serious With New Gaming Laptop -27/06/2007 Toshiba Becomes Latest AMD Customer -27/06/2007 New Toshiba Qosmio Slightly Smaller -27/06/2007 Samsung Quits Notebook Business -29/01/2007 Tougher Laptops On The Way -06/12/2006 Newer news items Massive Sony Battery Recall Completes Debacle -24/10/2006 MacBook's Get Processor Upgrade -24/10/2006 Pioneer Adds Grunt To UMPC -27/09/2006 Acer Low-Cost Vista-Ready Laptop -18/09/2006 Acer's Core 2 Duo Laptops -12/09/2006 Older news items Core 2 Duo Screams Into Laptop Market -29/08/2006 HP Docking Station Has Own Storage -30/07/2006 Dell's Embarrassment Grows: Another Laptop Fire -30/07/2006 Lenovo Slashes US ThinkPad Price -26/07/2006 Notebook Shipments to miss 2006 targets -12/07/2006 Tag This Now: