Toshiba announces dynabook SS S30 Notebooks / Toshiba Posted by zmcnulty on Aug 25, 2006 - 10:22 AM Toshiba is ready to release their newest dynabook, the "dynabook SS S30" in early September. It features a 12.1" widescreen display and single spindle (e.g. no optical drive). It's one of Toshiba's smaller dynabooks, measuring 283 x 196.6 x 26.9 ~ 35.5mm. Some other nice features of the SS S30 include a "Water Block Construction" that prevents water that may have spilled on the keyboard from reaching the unit's internal components, lock feature (like the one on your portable audio player to prevent accidental keypresses), fingerprint security, and a presentation button for changing to external output with a preset resolution. Two models will be available: the "lightweight and long battery life" model with a 1280 x 800 dot screen, Core Solo U1300 (1.06GHz) processor, Intel 945GM Express chipset, 512MB of memory, and 30GB/4200rpm hard drive, and the "high speed hard drive model" that knocks the hard drive up to 40GB/5400rpm. Each model is equipped with three USB 2.0 ports, a Type2 PC card slot, SD card slot, IEEE 802.11a/b/g LNA, Gigabit Ethernet, a modem, and mini D-Sub15 pin. The battery on the "long battery life" model lasts roughly 9 hours, and on the fast hard drive model about 7.7 hours. Inspired by: http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2006/0824/toshiba.htm [1] Press Release: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2006_08/pr_j2402.htm [2] dynabook This article is from TechJapan   http://www.techjapan.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1328 Links in this article   [1] http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2006/0824/toshiba.htm   [2] http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2006_08/pr_j2402.htm