It seems Toshiba wasn’t happy enough to release five new laptops two days ago and thus adding another one on the line, the Tecra A8 laptop. Aimed at business consumers, this machine offers high quality and reliable mobile technologies with the incorporated exclusive EasyGuard technology – HDD Protection, Shock Absorbing design, and advanced encryption and security – and biometrics fingerprint reader that will protect data and components in any condition.

Currently, there are four configurations under the Tecra A8 laptop series – A8-EZ8311, A8-EZ8312, A8-EZ8313, and A8-S8314. The cheapest one, A8-EZ8311 laptop, priced at $699, features an Intel Celeron M 420 (1.60GHz) processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, 60GB of SATA HDD, 15.4-inch WXGA (1280×800) display with ATI Radeon XPress 200M graphics engine, DVD/CD-RW combo drive, and Atheros Wireless LAN connectivity. In the other hand, the most expensive machine on the series, A8-S8314, is equipped with an Intel Core Duo T2400 (1.83GHz) processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 100GB of SATA HDD, DVD SuperMulti drive, 15.4-inch WXGA (1280×800) display with TruBrite technology and Intel GMA 950 graphics engine, and Intel PRO Wireless 3945ABG WLAN support. This one is retailed for $1,349.

All of these four Vista-ready laptop configurations will come with three USB 2.0 ports, IEEE 1394 port, Infrared, SD card slot, integrated 56K modem, Ethernet LAN, headphone and microphone jack, and S-Video port. They will be pre-loaded with Genuine Windows XP Professional Edition operating system along with Microsoft Office OneNote and Microsoft Works applications.

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