The Toshiba Portege Z835, Toshiba’s first ultrabook will debut as a Best Buy exclusive for $899.

Technical specs are as follows:

• 13.3 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display
• 1.3 GHz Intel Core i3-2367M processor
• 4GB of RAM
• 128GB solid state disk

The Best Buy model, the Toshiba Portege Z835-P330 is expected to be the least expensive of them all but the device is expected to come in various configurations.

The Ultrabook is the new trend for the thin and light laptop category which offers the portability and mobility of the netbook in a machine with processing power of a laptop.

SOURCE: GottaBeMobile

The Toshiba NB550D is coming to Australia and Europe, and it’s pretty interesting to find out how the new AMD C-50 Ontario with ATI Raderon 6250 graphics would compare to the industry leader, Intel Atom processors. But sadly, the company isn’t planning on releasing the netbook in the US any time soon… or any time at all for that matter, according to Liliputing. While that could change in the future, as far as Toshiba is concerned, the NB550D will not be released in the States.

If you’re itching to get your hands on a netbook with an AMD C-50 processor and don’t care about the netbook brand, you can check out the Acer Aspire One 522 which comes with the chip (AMD A50M Fusion Chipset, ATI Radeon HD 6250 Graphics). It’s currenly available from Amazon.com for $329.99.

But if you’re bent on getting a Toshiba with an AMD chip, they’re going to be releasing a 15.6 laptop with an AMD Zacate so you might want to watch out for that.

Toshiba has the Toshiba NB550D up on the company’s German site and PC Authority in Australia has gotten their hands on a demo unit.

So far, we know that it comes with a 10″ screen, a 1GHz AMD C-50 Ontario chip with a Radeon HD 6250 that can handle DirectX11 and 1080p videos.

There’s no mention as to if and when the new mini-notebook would make it to the US though. PC Authority says that the netbook is snappy, loads programs quickly and has reasonable boot time.

The dual-core Toshiba Mini NB305 was announced at CES last week, and, unlike some of the gadgets announced that will most likely not see the light of day, it’s already available for purchase.

Here are the new-ish specs:

• 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core CPU
• 1GB of RAM
• 250GB hard drive
• 802.11b/g/n WiFi
• 6-cell battery
• Windows 7 Starter Edition

Nothing surprising or out of the ordinary since it still has the older NB305′s chassis, but the dual-core processor is pretty much a good upgrade. Plus the NB305′s a reliable little machine.

Check out the product page for the Toshiba NB305-N600 (Blue) from Amazon.com. It’s up for pre-order for $379.99.

SOURCE: Netbook News

Toshiba has launched two more 10″ netbooks, the Mini NB505 and the Mini NB305. Nothing new apparently, just a bit of upgrade and downgrade of some of the company’s old computers.

The Mini NB505 is practically identical to the NB500 and has an Intel Atom N455 processor, 1GB of RAM, 250GB hard drive and Windows 7. They’re selling it for $300 and it comes in five attractive colors: orange, turquoise, lime green, brown and blue.

The second device is the updated Mini NB305 that they’re selling for $380. It comes with a blue aluminum lid with a dual-core Atom N550 processor, 250GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM.

They’re already up and available from J&R (the NB505 for $299.99) and Buy.com ($329.99).

SOURCE: Netbook News

Toshiba recently launched the NB500 and NB520 netbooks. The latter comes with a dual core processor, a USB port that can charge your gadgets even if the netbook is powered off, and high-end Harman Kardon speakers. The former is a lower end version of the NB520 which only comes with a single core chip. Now Toshiba is introducing the next member of the series is the Toshiba NB550D which was announced in Germany.

It comes with an AMD Fusion ‘Brazos’ APU which is pretty much the same as the also very recently leaked Acer Aspire One D522.

Specs are as follows:

• AMD Radeon HD 6250M graphics
• 10.1″ 1024 x 600 display
• 250GB HDD<.li>
• 1GB DDR3 RAM
• 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0
• 6-cell battery (9 hours of battery time)
• Windows 7 Starter

It also has the Harman Kardon speakers and the USB port that charges your gadgets even while the netbook is off. Comes in orange, brown or lime green.

SOURCE: Notebook Italia

Toshiba has introduced the newest netbooks to join their 10″ line: the Toshiba NB500 and the higher end Toshiba NB520.

Toshiba NB520
It comes with a 1.5GHz Intel Atom dual core processor, 250GB HDD, 1GB of DDR3 memory, and Windows 7 Starter. It also comes with Harman Kardon speakers which should improve the sound… at least as far as 10″ netbooks are concerned. What’s cool about it is that it looks like you can use the speakers even if you’re not using the netbook. Just connect your MP3 player. It also allows you to charge your gadgets through the USB port even if the netbook is powered off.

While there’s no word on how much it will cost in the US, or if it will make it to US shores, it costs $599 in Singapore. Yes, it comes with the colorful, cheerful lid options.

Toshiba NB500
The Toshiba NB500 is a lower end (at least on the wallet) version of the NB520. It also comes in nice colors but without the speakers and without the ability to charge your phone or MP3 player if the netbook isn’t powered on. Processor is an Intel Atom N450, but it shares the 10.1″ 1024 x 600 pixel display, 250GB HDD, 1GB of DDR3 memory with it’s more powerful brother. Also comes with 802.11b/g/n WiFi capability, and a 6 cell battery.

Check out the press release here.