The Dual Display Toshiba Libretto W105

There's been lots of buzz for the high-concept Toshiba Libretto W100 series since it was very first announced in June 2010

. This dual-touch-screen minilaptop is really a limited-release showpiece designed by Toshiba to celebrate the company's 25th anniversary within the mobile computing company, and is greatest witnessed as an experiment that pushes the boundaries in between laptops, tablets, and portable media players. Despite the far-out thinking behind it, the Libretto labored in practice far better than we expected in some areas, which includes particular kinds of media playback and general Net surfing. That was specially surprising, because the system is running Windows 7 Home Premium over two simultaneous displays, all from a 1.2GHz Intel Pentium U5400 CPU and 2GB of RAM. Our configuration (the only a person presently offered, according to Toshiba's Internet website) is known as the W105-L251 and sells for $1,099.

Design and style

When closed, the all-black Libretto W105 seems to be like a thicker version of your Sony VAIO P, an additional unit that's neither fish nor fowl. The Libretto W105 measures 8 x 4.8 x 1.2 inches and weighs 1.8 pounds, just .4 pounds far more than the VAIO P. The Libretto's W105 footprint is roughly the similar because the iPad, but when its opened, its audacious style and design is revealed. The two halves are dominated by big 7-inch touchscreens. For the upper half, a power button sits towards the correct with the screen; the left includes a webcam. The underside half has only two buttons: the left a single activates the on-screen keyboard, as well as the correct is the Home button, which moves the taskbar towards the upper display and opens Toshiba's Bulletin Board app in the underside display.

Display

Truly navigating around the Windows interface was mostly lag-free, that is some thing even a lot of notebooks cannot say. At the exact same time, a 7-inch contact screen, no matter how a lot of navigational tricks you consist of, merely isn't optimal for contact, and we spent a good amount of time hunting and pecking, attempting to center the tiny cursor on buttons and tabs. Pressing the button on the best aspect of your bottom display switches in between the standard Windows OS desktop and a series of Toshiba's proprietary Bulletin Board screens, which enable you to arrange photos and notes on a touch-friendly surface. It appears snazzy, but we cannot say it is particularly helpful, specially as it (like almost any proprietary app) has its own learning curve.

Performance

The system's benchmark scores have been stable compared with single-core notebooks, that is obviously a benefit of going having a non-Atom CPU, and the application speed was largely comparable with all the new generation of AMD-powered premium notebooks. Video playback of local 720p video files was flawless, but on-line streaming video was trickier. On YouTube, 480p videos played smoothly, whereas 720p ones stuttered. On Hulu, 480p video was choppy, but the lower-res alternatives labored well, and still looked decent for the tiny 7-inch 1,024x600-pixel screen. Gaming, as one may imagine, is largely out of the question, even though the handful of Facebook games we tried labored fine and animated smoothly.

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