CES 2007: Buy Bill Gates’s personally endorsed signature Windows Vista PC, Toshiba’s priddy Portége R400

Microsoft has been spreading its love around a lot recently, as we saw at the Bill Gates keynotes speech on Saturday night, and one of the lucky punters has been Toshiba. They’ve joined together, made sweet, sweet love, and created the signature Windows Vista PC, with a birth certificate labelling it the Portégé R400. Funny name for a baby, that. We got our hands on it today, and were quite impressed with the features it has, predominantly the ability to view email and calendar dates using Toshiba’s Edge Display. Without lifting the lid of the notebook, just by glancing at the edge of the lid, you can see exactly how many emails you have, who sent them, and what the subjects are, regardless of whether the computer is on or off.

But that’s not all the Portégé R400 has. It also has steak knives! Well, actually, it’s the ability to be not only a notebook, but also a tablet PC, and is also the world’s first wirelessly dockable notebook computer. For the budding CSI agents out there, it also features a biometric fingerprint reader, multi-level passwords, and a whole host of other security measures, due to its exclusive EasyGuard technology. Available at the end of January, prices start at $2,599 - a huge expense for something that will satisfy every craving your body has. It’s worth it, believe me.

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