Touch Toshiba’s New Satellite M505 and U505 Touch Enabled Notebooks

Josh Smith
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Well, Go on, touch them already, they didn’t add a multi-touch screen and touch specific programs like a Bulletin Board and ReelTime to the new Satellite M505 and U505 laptops just for you to look at. Launching November 1st these Windows 7 laptops can be configured with a 14″ or 13.3″ touchscreen and bundled with Toshiba’s new touch ready software package called Toshiba LifeSpace.

Touch Apps:

These Satellite notebooks will both ship with two touch apps that are exclusive to Toshiba LifeSpace and are designed to, “increase personal productivity in a unique and fun way.”

Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board Gives users fast access to day-to-day activities, tasks and projects in a simple, visual and fun way. Get creative when organizing projects with the ability to drag and drop photos, videos, links, documents and applications into one place. Personalize and organize the board by moving, rotating and resizing using gestures to fit personalized style. Bulletin Board also includes several built in gadgets such as labels, calendars, a clock and a to-do list.

Reel Time

ReelTimeâ„¢ Helps users easily find files based on when they were opened with a simple, fun visual history. With the flick of a finger, quickly scroll through automatically generated previews of documents, photos, videos and more, filter by file type or use the calendar to go back weeks or months.

Toshiba Satellite Notebooks:

The Satellite M505 Touch laptop will be available for $949.99 on October 22nd and the Satellite U505 Touch laptop will release a week later on November 1st for $1,049.99.

Sample configurations and features of the Toshiba Satellite M505 Touch and the Toshiba Satellite U505 Touch notebooks below.

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Features available on the Toshiba Satellite M505 Touch (M505-S4990-T) laptop include:

  • · 14.0-inch diagonal widescreen HD TruBrite® LED Backlit TFT LCD Touch-screen display
  • · Windows® 7 Home Premium
  • · Intel® Coreâ„¢ 2 Duo processor T6600 (2.2GHz)[vii]
  • · Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
  • · 4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM, upgradable to 8GB[viii]
  • · 500GB HDD[ix]
  • · Slot-loading DVD SuperMulti drive with Labelflash® supporting 11 formats
  • · Webcam and microphone
  • · Fusion Finish in Sonic Black
  • · 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN[x] and 10/100 Ethernet
  • · 5-in-1 Memory Card Reader
  • · HDMI-CEC
  • · S/P DIF output port
  • · 6-cell Lithium Ion battery
  • · 1 eSATA/USB combo port with USB Sleep-and-Charge[xi] and 2 USB 2.0 ports
  • · Toshiba PC Health Monitor
  • · Toshiba eco utilityâ„¢
  • · One-year international limited warranty and award-winning Toshiba service and support

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Features available on the new Toshiba Satellite U505 Touch (U505-S2980-T) laptop include:

  • · 13.3-inch diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT LCD Touch-screen display
  • · Windows 7 Home Premium
  • · Intel Core 2 Duo processor T6600 (2.2GHz)1
  • · Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
  • · 4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM, upgradable to 8GB2
  • · 500GB HDD3
  • · Slot-loading DVD SuperMulti drive with Labelflash supporting 11 formats
  • · Webcam and microphone
  • · Textured Finish in Luxe Brown
  • · 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN4 and 10/100 Ethernet
  • · 5-in-1 Memory Card Reader
  • · HDMI-CEC
  • · S/P DIF output port
  • · 6-cell Lithium Ion battery
  • · 1 eSATA/USB combo port with USB Sleep-and-Charge5 and 2 USB 2.0 ports
  • · Toshiba PC Health Monitor
  • · Toshiba eco utility
  • · One-year international limited warranty and award-winning Toshiba service and support

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