Larry Dignan has written a new blog over at ZDNet on Toshiba’s new slimmed down look for its Portege range of laptops. This has been made possible because of the new 128GB solid-state drive that’s been added to the range, and it means as well as being far slimmer, the R500-S5007V will be the lightest laptop of its kind, with a 128GB SSD and a DVD SuperMulti drive - at a featherweight 2.4 pounds.

Larry makes note that ultra-slim laptops are all the rage at the moment, but what differentiates Toshiba from the rest of the gang is the fact that the Portege’s have a much better storage capacity than their rivals; many of whom “expect you to live in the cloud and store information there too–or use attached drives”. Toshiba, by including a SSD card and 7mm DVD SuperMulti drive, keep the weight down but don’t skimp on the storage capacity.

Larry also lists other key points on the R500-S5007V sych as battery life, software and technical specifications which you can read by heading over to the article here.