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Toshiba Portege R200-S234 Notebook (1.2GHz Pentium M 753, 512MB DDR2, 60GB, Windows XP Pro, 12.1

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Pros
Lightweight, with a great keyboard
Cons
Omits a built-in optical drive

Performance: Fair: 66
Features: Good: 76
Design: Good: 74

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	1062
Adobe Photoshop	530
Adobe Premiere	768
Ahead Nero	1268
Battery Life (Office Applications)	4:38
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	567
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	1006
Microsoft Office XP	668
Mozilla	599
Musicmatch Jukebox	866
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	619
Windows Media Encoder	687
WinZip	671
World Bench 5 Score	60
World Bench 5 Word Score	Fair

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	1106

Performance
WorldBench 5: Performance word scores reflect comparisons of notebooks in the same category running the same operating system. See Guide to the Top-Rated Products for more details.	Fair: 60 (Windows XP Professional)
CPU	1.2-GHz Pentium M ULV 753 processor
Screen size	12.1 inches
System memory	512MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM
Hard drive	60GB
Graphics	Intel 915GM using main memory
Pointing device	Touchpad
Bays	None
Bundled removable-media drives	External DVD±RW/-RAM drive
Floppy drive	None
Ports	Two USB 2.0, microphone, headphone, docking station, PC Card slot, SD Card slot
Communications	V.92 modem, gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11g, SD Card
Business suite	Microsoft Works 8, Microsoft OneNote 2003
Other features	Fingerprint scanner
Overall design	Good
Battery life (hours:minutes)	Very Good: 4:38
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	Light: 5.0/2.8
Vendor's reliability/service	Average/Average
Support policy	Three-year parts and labor warranty; 24-hour daily toll-free support

What You Should Know about the Portege R200-S234 Notebook (1.2GHz Pentium M 753, 512MB DDR2, 60GB, Windows XP Pro, 12.1

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.