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Well it had to happen - Dell issued a recall notice over Sony batteries and then Apple issued a recall notice over Sony batteries and now it’s Toshiba’s turn to issue a recall notice for laptops that contain a Sony battery.

Toshiba says that about 340,000 laptops are affected and they are all either Dynabook or Dynabook Satellite laptops manufactured between March and May 2006.

I wonder if Sony are now wishing they had never got into the battery building business because this latest recall pushes the total number of affected batteries up over the 6 million mark.

There are many who expect that Tablet PCs will one day replace the humble laptop and a machine like the Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet PC goes a long way towards making that prediction quite plausible.

For those who aren’t quite sure what the difference is between a tablet PC and an ordinary laptop these photos of the Portege M400 should give you some idea of the versatility of a tablet PC

Follow the link for a review of the Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet PC

Laptop’s are an invaluable tool for anyone who needs to work online at time s when they’re not near the office. Anyone who has lugged a laptop around with them knows that they’re not as light and portable as they’re made out to be. After a while they become weighty little monsters that become a nuisance.

But any laptop that weighs in at 1.15kg is worth having a look at and the Toshiba R200 is one laptop that isn’t going to weigh you down.

The specs for the R200 are:

1.6 GHz Pentium low-voltage chip

512MB of DDR2 RAM

Wi Fi

60GB hard drive

And that’s all packaged in a magnesium alloy case that is less than 2 cm thick.

There’s no reoom for an optical drive and so it doesn’t have one.

Now if all those specs and the ultra thin image really made you want to rush out and buy one then perhaps you should take a deep breath first because they are not cheap. Here in Australia they retail for around$3.5k and I saw one in the US advertised for $1999.

But they are a nice looking unit and they only weigh 1.15kg …