Toshiba's L635 Laptop Is Aimed At The Kiddie Market
I’m sure you’ve all had this nightmare: It’s your kid’s first day in Kindergarten, and when you pick her up from school, she’s crying. “What’s the matter, honey?” “Daddy, all the other kids have real laptops, I only have an iPad!” — what do you do?! Toshiba to the rescue. They’ve got a young’un-oriented laptop that will let your kid can run Excel on and that will survive a direct cupcake strike.
There’s a built-in DVD drive and the usual ports. So I was kind of exaggerating when I said it was for kindergartners. It’s really more for the clumsy teen who has a bad habit of spilling shakes on his electronics. No specs are available, but it’s $500, so I’m guessing it’ll be competitive with the lower-end ultraportables out there. Low-power CPU… 2GB of RAM… onboard graphics or a combo chip, that sort of thing. It’ll be available September 26 at Best Buy.