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Satellite® : U500
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Satellite® U500 — luxe-out while moving out
Uniquely styled with a colorful textured finish
A full-featured laptop built for mobility
Solid performance and components
Whether you’re a student, a traveler, or one who wants to stay connected and entertained on the move, look at our lightweight 13.3” Satellite® U500 Series. With a starting weight of 4.5 pounds, these laptops offer exceptional style, solid performance, connectivity and excellent battery life.
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A Beautiful Textured Design
The Satellite® U500 laptop is designed with a compact, lightweight chassis set off by a gorgeous textured finish in red, white and black. It’s sure to start a conversation wherever you take it. And it’s also less prone to fingerprints.
Full-Size Laptop Features
Though light and compact, this laptop still offers the comfort and convenience of a full-size keyboard, a built-in optical drive, a bright, energy-smart LED Backlit display, along with powerful dual-core processors from Intel®. They really get the job done—without hammering your battery.
Loaded with Convenient Apps
Media Controller allows you to share videos, music and pictures from your PC’s media library with your home entertainment network. Access your files faster thanks to Toshiba’s ReelTime™ and take advantage of our Bulletin Board feature to quickly manage your important tasks with to-do lists or calendars accessible in your own personalized space on your desktop.
Entertaining Extras
Other laptops entertain you, but this one takes you one step further. Some models come with an HDMI connection for scaling up your movies, music and gaming on a home theater to enjoy high-def video and high-def surround sound. Or enjoy an optional LED backlit keyboard that not only looks cool, but lets you keep typing even when the lights go down.
Advanced Connectivity
Equipped with onboard wireless-N, the Satellite® U500 laptop simply gives you more ways to stay in tune. Now you can connect, browse, share or collaborate faster than ever.
Additional Features available in select models
USB Sleep-and-Charge
Power your smart phone and other portables — even when your laptop is off. learn more »
Hard Drive Impact Sensor
This innovative 3D sensor helps safeguard your data by “parking” the hard drive heads in the event of a drop or sudden movement. learn more »
Touch Screen
The touch-enabled display on this laptop lets you tap open files, plus swipe, rotate, push, scroll or zoom in on images with a simple brush of your fingers. learn more »
WiMAX
Take advantage of the growing number of WiMAX markets across the country to stay wirelessly connected throughout an entire city—even while in motion. learn more »
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These sophisticated new drives not only simplify playing your music and movies, but they also work great in cramped quarters, and add to the clean, streamlined looks of your laptop.
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Do discs differently.
Bluetooth®
Synch your smart phone and other portables, or expand your laptop entertainment potential with external speakers, headphones and more... all without cords.
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Synch and expand—cordlessly.
HDMI port
Scale up your gaming, movies and music on a home theater - with full 1080p high-definition video, and amazingly immersive surround sound.
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Make home your home cinema.
starting at:
$699.00
or choose a pre-configured Satellite® U500 below.
Need help? Learn how to read specs in our buying guide.
"I bought mine on 09 Jan 2010, (Best Buy sold it to me before the GA date of 17 Jan 2010 --oops!) Brown Luxe with textured finish.
The system runs very cool, the bottom of this Laptop remains barley warm to the touch. I have installed various 64bit operating systems to include Win7, Linux: (openSUSE 11.1, openSUSE 11.2 Ubuntu 9.10) with success in most areas e.g. Ethernet, wifi, power management. Since the Intel Core i3 is so new, the integrated Intel GMA HD video support under Linux remains in non-accelerated mode and at a lower resolution (1024x768 32bit instead of 1280x800) at the moment. So far I have not found any problems with this Laptop. The default OS is Win7 and Toshiba does a great job of not loading BloatWare during the install; they give you the control to install what you like and disregard any apps you wish. Great job Toshiba."
Works Great With:
Toshiba Primary High Capacity Li Ion Battery Pack (12-Cell)
When you need extra power to take your laptop on vacation, or work outdoors, make sure you carry one of these. learn more »
Toshiba dynadock™ U Universal Docking Station
Now use a single USB cable to plug into your networks, or full-size equipment like a monitor, keyboard and more—in a snap. learn more »
Toshiba 14” Envoy Carrying Case
This airport checkpoint-friendly case keeps your laptop well protected when you travel, and has lots of compartments for your other things. learn more »
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