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    Anyone Purchase the Tecra R840 Yet?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by austinro30, Apr 21, 2011.

  1. austinro30

    austinro30 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Been looking at a lot of laptops: thinkpad T420/420s, E420s, Dell lattitude, Sony...The R840 seems to have pretty good specs minus the display. Anyone have any comments or suggestions??? Will there ever be an option for a higher res screen? I chatted with Toshiba and they have no info regarding display upgrades.
     
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    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    I doubt they will go higher on screen res; not usually Toshiba's game plan.

    The new Tecras seem to be pretty inline with the new Portege's. I think Toshiba merged the 2 and used the same chassis, but different sizes (portege 13.3" vs Tecra 14" [r840] and 15.6" [r850]).

    I would just look at Portege reviews/issues.

    Good luck


    **EDIT**
    Looks like the Tecra r840/r850 have more "upgrades" than the portege r830.
    http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/laptops.to?family=tecra&model=R840#resultsMatrix
     
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