Enjoy better, faster Internet connections with draft N Wi-Fi®. Videoconference or chat face-to-face with a built-in Webcam. Log on easier with Toshiba Face Recognition. And stay fast and loose with your smart phone, because this laptop offers a USB Sleep-and-Charge port for charging your portables, even when it's asleep or off.
Immersive Virtual Surround Sound
On the move? harman/kardon® stereo speakers on the Satellite® A500 laptops bring a new dimension of enjoyment to all your listening with rich, enveloping virtual surround sound. Using just two speakers, you'll hear deeper explosions and bass tones, crisper highs and more realistic conversations.
Get the best entertainment experience with Microsoft's latest operating system. Windows® 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music.
Tuned for HD Entertainment
With the Satellite® A500 laptop you're never far from dazzling entertainment, even when you're far from home. Choose from select models with a Blu-ray® Disc player for watching the latest HD movies. Or enjoy standard features like a premium sound package with harman/kardon® speakers and Dolby® Sound Room® that envelop you in surround sound, plus an HDMI connection for tapping into a home theater.
The Latest Quad-Core Processors
The A500 Series features only the latest Core i processors from Intel®, including optional upgrades to the amazingly fast quad-core Intel® Core™ i7 processors, for blazing speed.
More Media Enjoyment-in More Places
If you're into high-def movies, games, music and photography, this Satellite® laptop is for you. New Windows® 7 gives you more ways than ever of savoring your digital entertainment. Intel® Core™ processors and NVIDIA® graphics (select systems) pump up the power, up to 500GB of storage gives you plenty of room to hold it all, and a Hard Drive Impact Sensor keeps jolts and drops from spoiling your day.
High-Speed Components
Move at the speed of life with this Satellite® laptop. You'll have fast DDR3 memory to keep your PC humming through a day's worth of multitasking, number-crunching or fun, advanced eSATA and FireWire® IEEE 1394 ports for moving your files and multimedia around, or customize it with a 7200rpm hard drive for accessing your data faster.
Exceptional Styling
This multimedia notebook offers features that add up to some serious style points - including an LED backlit keyboard for typing and gaming, a clean-looking edge-to-edge display, and our acclaimed Fusion™ Finish, which is sure to start a conversation or two.
Exciting Extras
This Satellite® model offers things you won't find on just every laptop - like a touchpad with multi-touch control that puts more power in your fingertips, a Hard Drive Impact Sensor to help safeguard your files and other stuff in case of mishaps, plus a power-saving eco utility™ to keep you and your laptop more attuned to the environment.
Enhanced Touchpad Versatility
The Satellite® A500 Series also offers a touchpad with multi-touch control, which gives you more freedom than ever; the ability to pinch, swipe, rotate or scroll through images on the display with a brush of your fingers. That's convenience!
Additional Features
USB Sleep-and-Charge
Power your smart phone and other portables - even when your laptop is off.
DDR3 Memory
Get the bandwidth to get the most from today's software, multitask all day and run applications without a glitch.
NVIDIA® Graphics on Select Models
Blazing fast 3D gaming, video playback and HD movie editing, plus speedier performance overall.
Eco Utility
Now with just a click you can quickly adjust the settings and power plan of your laptop, and monitor your ongoing power usage too.
Works Great With:
Toshiba Primary High Capacity Li Ion Battery Pack
This rechargeable back-up battery is perfect for staying connected longer while on the go.
Get things done on the run with advanced energy-efficiency, designed so you can go longer on a single battery charge.
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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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It's your ticket to brilliant HD movies on the go or splashed across a home theater with your laptop's advanced A/V connections.
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Solid state drives offer lightning-fast access times and greater data reliability.
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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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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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When the room's dim or the lights go down, you can keep right on typing thanks to these energy efficient keyboards.
Experience a more convenient way to communicate, log on or share your laptop among the family.
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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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Tap into a home theater system to take advantage of big multi-speaker sound.
These notebooks transform into a "tablet" with a digital pen for sketching ideas, calculating math problems, marking up documents, or tapping open files.
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High-speed 7200RPM SATA hard drives give you quicker access to your files and multimedia, so you'll spend less time waiting and more time enjoying.
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Transfer files easily from our your digital camera, camcorder, MP3 player or smart phone, sharing home movies and playlists with SD cards, Memory Sticks and more.
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.
Download, email and access the Internet - far from mobile hotspots - using your carrier's wireless broadband network.
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Gain access to wireless metropolitan area networks at broadband speeds.
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Used with remote management software, Active Management Technology on Intel® vPro™-equipped Toshiba laptops lets you remotely configure, diagnose, isolate, and repair infected PCs—even if they're off.
harman kardon stereo speakers bring an added dimension to music, movies and gaming with rich, immersive audio. Enjoy deeper, richer lows, crisper highs, and more lifelike conversations.
Safeguard your data by 'parking' the hard drive heads in the event of a drop or sudden movement.
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Stay more agile, productive and competitive with Toshiba's exclusive EasyGuard® Technology which offers greater mobile reliability, security and convenience.
Quickly adjust the settings and power plan of your laptop and monitor your ongoing power usage with just a click.
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Engineered with respect to our planet, 93% of Toshiba laptops, netbooks and Tablet PCs have met the ENERGY STAR 4.0 standard since it was established in 2007.
Designed for those who work with highly sensitive information, smart card readers are a sophisticated way to limit PC access using highly advanced security token encoding.
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EPEAT™ Gold is the highest possible ranking of the acclaimed Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool which measures products across 51 different dimensions.
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This unique transreflective widescreen LED-backlit display lets you work effectively in the office―or even out in direct sunlight. It also produces rich color in most any lighting condition.
Plug right in and get access to the Web or other networks to work, communicate and enjoy yourself.
Dedicated graphics enliven and enhance the way you view movies, photos and games, all without robbing the performance you need to get other things done.
Toshiba's PC Health Monitor alerts you to issues before they become problems, constantly gauging your machine's temperature and power usage, while checking the hard drive to help protect against shocks.
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Zoom in with a two-finger pinch, move files with a one-finger drag-and-drop, and do many other things with greater ease.
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Plug in an LCD monitor and enjoy a higher resolution viewing experience.
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Get an adapter that supports Intel Wireless Display and wirelessly project multimedia to your HDTV with great image clarity and sound.
