Despite the recent string of bad news, Toshiba introduces new HD DVD-based products

Toshiba recently suffered a crippling blow by the hands of Warner Bros. The film studio announced on Friday that it would phase out the introduction of new HD DVD titles in May 2008 and instead will focus on standard definition DVDs and Blu-ray titles.

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(Image from X-bit Labs)

 

X-bit Labs take us on a tour of this laptop:

The U1 series is interesting for a number of non-standard solutions utilized in it. Particularly, the use of new materials (such as magnesium-aluminum alloy, robust carbon fiber, polished stainless steel), LED-based backlighting of the display, longer battery life, etc. Today we are going to take a real close look at this solution in our review!

Computer Reseller News:

In a year of ups and downs for chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, this counts as an "up."

Notebook maker Toshiba said Tuesday it will bring its Satellite lineup back into the commerical channel, and build a series of the new laptops using AMD's Turion 64 X2 or AMD Athlon dual core chips, as well as systems using Intel's Core2Duo. Previously, Toshiba used only Intel processors in its business lineup.