Toshiba's sub-2 pound Portégé R500 includes optical drive, a

As you can see in the attached video taped at Digital Life in New York City, I can vouch for the fact that Toshiba's Portégé R500 sub-notebook has a built-in optical drive for CD-ROMs and DVDs. You hardly ever see this in a sub-notebook because they take up so much vertical space and as a result, if you're a subnotebook user who wants to listen to CDs or watch DVDs while on a plane or something, you need your docking station too. But not in the case of the Portégé R500. I was quite surprised to see the drive tray pop out of the Portégé's side bezel.

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[maher1952]

the most bad lap top gets hot and broke

[GEMINICT]

I purchased this with 160 Gb HD and 2 GB memory and optical drive. The screen is atrocious - very narrow viewing angles and lots of light leakage around the edges so the image is faded. Cannot watch a video on it - especially in dark conditions because of the uneven lighting. The keyboard is the nosiest I have ever heard and bends with each key stroke with a very poor feed back. It takes 5 mins to boot up and will not properly shut down and the battery lasts about 40 mins and gets hot. AVOID

[Bappy25]

I Thought it was solid state drive

[johnmonk66]

much better than macbook air, much lighter, better battery and a disc drive