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Toshiba Protégé R500-S5007V comes with a 128GB solid state drive

Toshiba has announced their latest entry into the world of ultraportable laptops with the launch of Toshiba Protégé R500-S5007V.

Toshiba Protégé R500-S5007V comes loaded with a 128GB solid state drive along with a 12.1-inch display.

It weighs just around 2.4 pounds which makes it one of the lightest notebooks around.

The prices start at $2,999.

It comes loaded with an ultralow volt Intel Core 2 Duo U7700 processor with a 1.33GHz clock speed, 2MB of L2 cache and a 533MHz front side bus.

It would take on the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 and Apple MacBook Air in this segment of the market.