Toshiba brings android on laptop

Toshiba introduced its first Android-based portable laptop and calls it MID (Mobile Internet Device) AC100.

At 870 gm it is extremely light for a 10.1-inch netbook. The technology major claims it also offers an incredibly long standby battery time of 7 days.

The laptop runs on NVIDIA's Tegra 250 Mobile Processor, which has 1 GHz speed, 512 MB DDR2 RAM and has 8 GB flash storage. It also has 1.3 megapixel web camera to video chat, and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for data transfer and internet.

This personal portable PC has Android version 2.1 as its operating system and comes with pre-loaded applications to browse the net with the facility to download more applications from the Android store.

The notebook retails for Rs 18,721.

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