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Satellite Pro® : U500
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Satellite Pro® U500 — Get the winning touch
Performance and Mobility
Multi-touch screen-enabled
Stylish and Functional
When you want the portability of a 12.1” business notebook with the workspace of a 14” system, we have the answer—our 13.3” Satellite Pro® U500 laptop. It has all the features you’re looking for, a stylish and functional design which helps reduce fingerprint marks and provides a better grip, and topped by an innovative multi-touch display with a Toshiba exclusive organizer software application.
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Ideal Touch-Enabled Viewing
Work where and how you like. The Satellite Pro® U500 laptop explores Windows® 7 touch and gesturing features with an ideally sized 13.3” diagonal TruBrite® multi-touch-enabled display. You can zoom in or out of a window with just a two-finger pinch, and much more.
Portable Power
Stay fully charged. With the USB Sleep-and-Charge port on your Satellite Pro® U500 laptop you can power all your USB devices—like smart phones and iPods®— even when the PC is asleep, leaving those bulky AC adapters at home.
Toshiba Innovations
Make your day easier. Two new Toshiba innovations on this laptop help simplify your life—Bulletin Board, a visual tool that uses the PC’s touch screen to keep you organized with sticky notes, to-do lists, and more; and ReelTime™, which helps you find the latest files fast, without searching endlessly through folders.
Extra Data Protection
Accidents happen. And when they do you’ll feel better knowing your Satellite Pro® U500 laptop comes with a Hard Drive Impact Sensor. It detects sudden movement and “parks” the hard drive heads to help safeguard your data.
Essential Connectivity
Out of touch can put you out of the running. That’s why this notebook offers Wi-Fi®, Fast Ethernet plus a Webcam and microphone so you can keep up with e-mails, touch base with colleagues, videoconference, and make sure you're always up-to-date.
Toshiba Innovation Features available on this laptop
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Simplifying your life? Now Toshiba laptops can do it in their sleep, thanks to USB Sleep-and-Charge support. It’s the easiest
way ever to charge your smart phone, MP3 player or other portable electronics, even when your laptop is turned off. Because,
believe it or not, sometimes you won’t want to boot your laptop all the way up or keep it all the way on.
Plug into a portable power station
Devices that are USB powered are so essential, yet so needy when it comes to power. But now you can keep them all happy,
helpful and showing full bars with a Toshiba laptop that offers USB Sleep-and-Charge support. And your notebook doesn’t
have to be awake to do it. Now that’s convenience!
You’re well connected
Select Toshiba laptops offer up to four convenient USB Sleep-and-Charge ports. So even if you’ve hooked up an external mouse
and keyboard, you’ll still have options for synching and charging your portable electronics—without the expense and hassle
of adding an external USB hub.
Have ports, will travel
USB Sleep-and-Charge support makes traveling easier too. When you and your gadgets come back to the hotel room feeling a
bit drained, just plug in and charge them right back up while you and your laptop are asleep. As for those bulky AC adapters
that came with your gear, you can leave them back at home.
S/P DIF Digital Audio Port
Tap into a home theater system to take advantage of big multi-speaker sound.
Built-in webcams and microphones let you chat face-to-face, collaborate with classmates, videoconference, and generally improve the way you interact with the world around you.
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Expand how you communicate.
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.
eSATA USB Combo Port
Experience faster data transfers when using an external hard drive. It’s the ideal solution for smarter back-ups, or storing your growing media collection.
S/P DIF Digital Audio Port
Touch Screen
USB Sleep-and-Charge
Webcam and Mic
HDMI port
eSATA USB Combo Port
Works Great With:
Toshiba dynadock™ U Universal Docking Station
Link your Satellite Pro® laptop to all your desktop devices—including external monitors and your sound system—with one USB cable.
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Toshiba Primary High Capacity Battery Pack (12 Cell)
Stop searching for power outlets and extend your unplugged working time even more. No serious road warrior should be without one of these and at least one secondary battery. learn more »
Toshiba 120W Global AC Adapter
Keep a second AC adapter at home, at work and in your case at all times, so you’ll never be without essential power.
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