Toshiba has added two new widescreen laptops to its range with the introduction of Satellite L500 and Satellite L550. Both machines are equipped with a choice of either an Intel Celeron / Pentium / Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon / Turion processor, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD burner, a VGA web camera supporting Toshiba’s Face Recognition software, an HDMI port, a 4-in-1 Bridge Media slot, two USB 2.0 ports, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet and an additional eSATA/USB combo port. The main difference is that the L500 only comes with a 15.6-inch HD TruBrite display with 1366 x 768 resolution, meanwhile, the L550 offers a bigger 17.3-inch HD TruBrite display with power saving LED backlight technology, and a resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels. Both systems will be available in the third quarter of 2009 throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Toshiba will release a new laptop from its Qosmio notebook series for the Japanese market in the end of July 2009. Dubbed as the Qosmio G50W/95JW, the laptop features a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 processor with a 4GB of RAM, a 500GB of HDD, an Intel PM45 Express Chipset, a 18.4-inch LCD screen with a Full HD resolution, and an nVidia GeForce 9600M GT with 512MB of VRAM. If you are interested, you should spend at least 304,800 Yen ($3,145) to purchase this laptop.