Toshiba's 12.1-inch Portege R500 is world's thinnest with disc drive

One thing that would drive me crazy about claims of 'thin' laptops is that most of them sucked. They would either not have a disc drive, lack serious horsepower or the screen would be the size of my cell phone display.

Not so with Toshiba's new entry!!!

The Portege R500 packs a first ever 7mm optical drive, 12.1-inch transflective (outdoor readable) LED-backlit screen, and does it all with a mere 0.77-inches of thickness, and a weight of 2.4 pounds. The R500 Core 2 duo U7600 1.2GHz processor, Intel GMA 950 graphics, up to 2GB of RAM, a 120GB HDD and a 1280 x 800 screen resolution. There's even a PCMCIA slot, gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth and VGA out.

The laptop starts at $2,000 with XP Pro, or $2,150 with Vista Business.

Read more after the jump. [laptoping]

Mac deal!!!

Apple is offering up to $200.00 off a refurbished Core 2 duo Macbooks from their special deal site.

Check out the specs:

• MacBook 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - White for $1099 - $150 instant savings = $949 shipped. 13.3-inch Widescreen Glossy LCD, 512MB RAM, 60GB hard drive, Combo Drive, iSight Camera, iLife software.
• MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - White for $1299 - $200 instant savings = $1099 shipped. 13.3-inch Widescreen Glossy LCD, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive, Super Drive, iSight Camera, iLife software.
• MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - Black for $1499 - $200 instant savings = $1299 shipped. 13.3-inch Widescreen Glossy LCD, 1GB RAM, 120GB hard drive, Super Drive, iSight Camera, iLife software.

Deals are as supplies last, so go get em' Mac heads.

product page here.