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 eSATA Port
Store it Smarter. Get it Faster.
Faced with a growing collection of personal and professional files, blossoming photo albums, and a catalogue of home movies, many have begun using external hard drives to ease the strain on their laptop. But if only you could transfer those files faster. Well, with the introduction of high-speed eSATA USB ports on new Toshiba laptops, now you can.
Enjoy a stellar storage solution
Typical home video files can range up to 1GB or more. Add thousands of pix, humongous amounts of music plus millions of miscellaneous files and even the biggest hard drive can feel the pinch. But with external storage and an eSATA port on your Toshiba laptop you can offload those files and transfer them faster than via a standard USB port. What a relief!
Fast-forward your movie-making
If you enjoy making movies on your notebook you know how quickly precious hard drive space can vanish. But with an external hard drive and an eSATA port on your Toshiba laptop you quickly gain access to tons of high-speed storage. What’s more, you also get a fast way to move around those chunks of video while making a saga of your big summer party.
Kick up your back-ups
Use an external hard drive to back-up your data? That’s a very smart solution. But with an eSATA port it quickly becomes an absolutely brilliant one. You can transfer your files up to 5 times faster than via a standard USB port. So you’ll be done in a flash and back enjoying the million or so things you can do on your Toshiba laptop.
Where to get this great technology:
Satellite M300, A300, A350, P300, A500, P500, U500, L550, L510, L500; Qosmio X300, F50, G50
Face Recognition
Log on—with just a smile.
Toshiba Face Recognition is the ultimate hands-free, hassle-free way to logon to your laptop. No keeping track of hard-to-remember passwords. No unnecessary typing. Just your unique visage gazing into the built-in Webcam on your notebook and presto―you’ve got access! How’s that for sci-fi technology?
Share the love, and your laptop.
If you’re using one laptop for the whole family—or your small business, Toshiba Face Recognition multiplies the convenience by letting you switch profiles with one simple look. After Mom’s done with the budget, Dad can come along and get his personal desktop icons, documents and favorites just by facing the camera. It’s a great time-saver.
Where to get this great technology:
Satellite M300, L300, A300, A350, L350, P300, A500, P500, U500, L550, L510, L500; Qosmio X300, F50, G50; Mini NB200
FM Tuner
Ride the airwaves… Catch your favorite music on-the-go
Anywhere you can catch a good FM signal, our FM tuner offers the convenience of having a radio wherever you are. Camping, at the beach, on family vacations, or catching up on work in a park.
We put a smile on your interface
The Toshiba FM tuner comes with an easy-to-use interface that lets you preset your favourite stations for instant listening pleasure, quickly scan for new stations, plus easily control volume and other settings—all from your laptop’s touchpad.
Get cheers from your ears
Add the Toshiba FM tuner to all the other advanced audio features available on our select multimedia laptops―booming harman/kardon® stereo speakers and Dolby® Sound Room™ for amazing virtual surround listening—and the message is clear: Toshiba cares about your entertainment in a very big way.
Where to get this great technology:
Qosmio F50, G50
S/P DIF Digital Audio Port
Amid today’s over-compressed, download-driven audio scene it’s easy to forget the pleasure of high-fidelity tones―songs, movies or games― heard over an elaborate sound system. Which is why Toshiba has equipped the headphone jack on many of its laptops for double duty, serving as an S/P DIF digital audio port so you can plug into a home theater system. Toshiba innovation triumphs again―by giving you more freedom and enjoyment!
Punch-up your listening pleasure
Use the S/P DIF connection with Dolby® Home Theater® on your Toshiba laptop, tap into a home entertainment system, and there you have it—a pulsating pipeline pumping out clear, rich 5.1 surround sound to glorify your favorite music, movies and games. You’ll be astounded at what a portable PC can do with this technology.
Hear it loud and clear
S/P DIF technology offers some of the best sound you can get—crystal-clear digital audio, free of many of the defects you’d find in a typical analog set-up. You’ll enjoy virtually every note from every single instrument, along with brighter highs and gorgeous lows. Plus, the quiet parts of songs or movies will seem all the more breathless. It’s a whole new listening experience.
Get your entertainment to go
As you’re starting to discover, Toshiba is not just the laptop expert, but the leader in mobile entertainment as well. With advancements like an S/P DIF connection, your richly equipped Toshiba multimedia notebook becomes a portable juke box, movie theater and superb gaming console—ready to deliver uncompromising sound at the snap of your fingers.
Where to get this great technology:
Satellite M300, A300, A350, P300; Qosmio X300, F50, G50
USB Sleep-and-Charge Ports
Quench your thirst for power.
Simplifying your life? Now Toshiba laptops can do it in their sleep, thanks to USB Sleep–and–Charge ports. 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 ports. 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 ports make 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.
Where to get this great technology:
Satellite M300, A300, A350, A500, P500, U500; Qosmio X300, F50, G50; Mini NB100, NB200
HDMI Connection
Enlarge your entertainment
HDMI makes it easy to experience big-screen high-definition video in full 1080p with 5.1 surround sound through a single cable. Simply connect your HDMI-equipped Toshiba laptop to a HDMI-compatible home theater and suddenly you’re right in the middle of the action, lost in the drama, blown away by the crisp highs and rich bass tones.
Go high-def in your home office
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 ports. And your notebook doesn’t have to be awake to do it. Now that’s convenience!
Use one remote. And lose the frustration
Along with a better picture and sound there are other benefits to Toshiba laptops offering HDMI with REGZA Link™. Connect to other HDMI-CEC electronics—A/V receivers, TVs and DVD players—and you can run the entire show using a single remote control. It makes adding or upgrading equipment easy too. And used with a camcorder it’s also great for faster home video editing.
Where to get this great technology:
Satellite A500, P500, U500, L500; Qosmio X300, F50, G50
Hard Drive Impact Sensor
Get the drop on unexpected falls
You can thank Toshiba innovation for your first line of defense against unforeseen knocks, dings and drops. It’s called the Hard Drive Impact Sensor―a complex system of hardware and software designed to detect sudden movements (as when your laptop starts to fall off a table) and “park” the heads of your hard drive before damage occurs. It works faster than you can blink to help protect your laptop and all-important data.
Dial in just the protection you need
Because everyone uses a laptop differently, we made sure you can customize the Hard Drive Impact Sensor to suit your situation. Safely docking your laptop on a desk for awhile? It’s okay to “tune” the sensor to its lowest sensitivity level. Taking your laptop around town? Putting it on a school desk or dining table? Better crank up the setting to help keep the unexpected from ruining your work.
Where to get this great technology:
Satellite A500, P500, U500, M500
Eco Mode
A "Green" laptop
Toshiba’s Eco Utility helps monitor power savings by showing approximate real time power consumption as well as accumulated power consumption and power savings when using eco mode daily, weekly, and monthly. You can realize measurable power savings by using the Eco Button continuously.
Here are some of the default features of eco mode. These settings are in addition to the standard Power saver plan settings of Windows.
- The brightness of the display is lowered.
- Where applicable, LED illumination and keyboard backlight are turned off
- The unit will also enter sleep mode within a short period of time:
Running on battery power, the unit will go in to sleep mode within 5 minutes.
Running on AC Adaptor, the unit will go in to sleep within 10 minutes
- CPU performance is also restricted
Where to get this great technology:
Satellite A500, P500, U500
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