World's Most Efficient Notebook Computer

Notebooks are already five-times more efficient than desktop computers, but they could be better. Toshiba believes they have found the way, and they did it by making it light and using LCD lite screens and flash-drives instead of hard-drives.

Toshiba's new Portégé R500 will be on sale soon with an option for the lowest-power laptop I've ever seen from a major manufacturer. The high-end laptop weighs less than two pounds and can operate for a whopping 8 hours on a single battery charge.

But, of course, it's not a special battery that keeps the laptop alive, it's just that the laptop uses so little power. Two innovations make this possible. First, ultra-efficient LED back lighting which also makes the screen more crisp even in full sun. And second, the computer doesn't use a hard drive. Instead of the constant spinning up and down of a normal laptop, the Portégé R500 uses a 64 GB solid state flash drive. EcoGeek.org

The laptop might be energy efficient but it comes with a hefty price-tag of almost $3000 can. Well its a step in the right direction. In the meantime make sure your computers are on standby or turned off when not in use.

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Joshy 79 said:

that is very green cool

Posted at 11:51 AM, on August 15 2007

World's Most Efficient Notebook Computer

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