Toshiba Portege 2010

Toshiba Portege 2010 Laptop reviews - CNET Reviews

Page 2 Most notebooks include one battery and two internal drives, but the Toshiba Portégé 2010 turns the tables, with just one internal drive and two batteries. The result? An ultraportable notebook that costs a little more than $1,800 and runs for 5.5 hours with both batteries attached--long enough to fly from Los Angeles to New York, weather permitting. Unfortunately, this laptop can't back up your files to any drive but its own, unless you buy an optional external floppy or CD-RW drive. And the Portégé 2010 doesn't win any records for performance, either. But if you travel frequently with your notebook and can live with these trade-offs, this Toshiba combines the uptime that your workaholism craves with the portability that your road trips require.It's hard to imagine a better attempt at notebook miniaturization than the Portégé 2010. This Toshiba's beautiful, magnesium-alloy case weighs only 3.35 pounds with both batteries attached, but when you pack your briefcase, you can mix and match components to get just the right combination of portability and working time. For example, the AC-power supply bumps the 2010's total weight up...