
Billed as the world’s thinnest 10 inch tablet, and looking pleasingly slender to our eyes is the Toshiba AT200,

Billed as the world’s thinnest 10 inch tablet, and looking pleasingly slender to our eyes is the Toshiba AT200,

Toshiba has shoulder barged its way into the Android tablet party, with the arrival of its ultra-thin Honeycomb slate, codenamed AT200 (which will quite possibly end up being called the Excite).

Unlike Microsoft’s much-desired Courier project, Toshiba’s twin screen concept laptop has actually made the jump into the real world, with the innovative Libretto W100 twin screen device now available for order in the US.

Netbooks have come a long way since the basic offerings of a few years back, and although the initial surge in sales may be relaxing slightly, they’re still very useful things and very much in demand.
With hundreds of different models now competing for your wallet, we’ve taken a look around at the very best and selected four netbooks which we think are in the current cream of the crop.

Toshiba has served up its first Android-based netbook, the Toshiba AC100 running Android 2.1 on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset.

We used to love our old Toshiba Libretto 50, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Toshiba’s laptop business, the company has unveiled a dual-screen Windows 7 laptop, the Libretto W100.
We loved our pint-sized Toshiba Libretto when it came out way back in 1997, and it looks like its spirit will live on in NEC’s new Windows CE-based device for Japan’s NTT DoCoMo – the N-08B.
Like a lot of people, we find it hard to get too excited about a Windows CE device, but NEC N-08B’s dinky style is making us go all nostalgic for our old Tosh.

A new study by warranty company SquareTrade analysed failure rates for over 30,000 new laptops covered by their plans, and found Asus and Toshiba to be the most reliable machines, with Sony not far behind in third place.
Worryingly, one in three of all laptops failed within 3 years, with SquareTrade discovering that netbooks were 20% more unreliable than regular laptops.

Surely a late candidate for one of the best adverts of the year is the incredible video by Toshiba advertising their range of REGZA SV LCD TVs.
The advert – part one of two – shows an armchair being lofted 98,268 feet to the edge of space by a helium balloon.
With netbooks recently overtaking laptops in worldwide sales figures, we were prompted to dig out our trusty old Toshiba Libretto 50 and see how it shaped up to modern rivals.

Released over twelve years ago in January 1997, the Tosh was seen as something of a mini-marvel in its day, being the first mini-notebook computer to both pack an Intel Pentium (hurtling along at 75MHz) and run Microsoft Windows 95.
The Libretto 50 was Toshiba’s second mini-PC, succeeding the Libretto 20 released in the previous April.
The latest l’il Libretto managed to run a full version of the Windows 95 operating system and came with Microsoft Word for Windows 95, Excel, Lotus Organizer 97 and Internet Explorer V3.0 pre-installed.
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