Relish your High Def media — Big Time. Satellite® P500
Uniquely styled with a colorful textured finish
A Full-featured laptop built for mobility
Solid performance and components
Starts at $699.00
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Seamless Home Theater Connectivity
Want to go big with your entertainment? Offering support for full 1080p high-definition video* and sound, the HDMI-CEC connection on select models lets you scale up your movies, music and games by tapping into a home theater — and run the show with just a single remote control.
WiMAX Optional
Take advantage of the growing number of WiMAX markets across the country to stay wirelessly connected throughout an entire city—even while in motion.
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.
Full-Size Laptop Features
Though light and compact, this laptop still offers the comfort and convenience of a full-size keyboard, a built-in optical drive, a bright, energy-smart LED Backlit display, along with powerful Core™ i processors from Intel®. They really get the job done—without hammering your battery.
A Beautiful Textured Finish
The Satellite® U500 laptop is designed with a compact, lightweight chassis set off by a gorgeous, fingerprint-fighting textured finish — available in Luxe Red, Luxe Brown or Sweet Pink. It's sure to start a conversation wherever you take it.
Optional Touch Screen
The touch-enabled display on this laptop lets you tap open files, plus swipe, rotate, push, scroll or zoom in on images with a simple brush of your fingers
NVIDIA® Discrete Graphics Available
Customize your U500 laptop with the latest GeForce® 310M HD graphics to enjoy blazing fast 512MB DDR3 graphics memory and a gorgeous high-definition picture.
Dazzling Energy-Efficient Viewing
The ideally sized 13.3" TruBrite® HD diagonal display on this laptop is very compact. Yet it brings out color and detail you never thought existed — in movies, photos, websites and more. Plus, its LED design (select models) uses less battery power. So start looking at life in brilliant high definition.
Entertaining Extras
Other laptops entertain you, but this one takes you one step further. Some models come with an HDMI connection for scaling up your movies, music and gaming on a home theater to enjoy full 1080P video and high-def surround sound. Or enjoy an LED backlit keyboard that not only looks cool, but lets you keep typing even when the lights go down.
Extra Protection for Your Data
Accidents do happen. So, the Satellite® U500 comes with a hard drive impact sensor that helps safeguard your files and multimedia by "parking" the hard drive heads in the event of drops, jolts or sudden movement.
Additional Features
USB Sleep-and-Charge
Power your smart phone and other portables — even when your laptop is off.
Hard Drive Impact Sensor
Helps safeguard your data by parking the hard drive heads in the event of a drop or sudden movement.
Optional Slot-Loading DVD Drive
Works great in cramped quarters, and adds to the streamlined look of your laptop.
Eco Utility
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.
