Toshiba Portege A605 introduced the portable, lightweight laptop that consumers borrow some of the features of the Portege R500, but is not as thin or light. The Portege A605 has some nice features, including an aluminum housing and 6.9 hours of battery life.

The Portege A605 weighs 3.3 pounds, has a 12.1 inch screen and 1.18 inches thick. Toshiba to squeeze an optical drive in the Portege A605. The ULV processor is one of the reasons why the Portege A605 offers a 6.9-hour battery life, and that is very good for the consumer notebook.

The basic price for the Portege A605 is $ 1399, of which 3 gigabytes of memory, 250GB hard drive, a DVD burner, Windows Vista Ultimate, a Web camand Ultra-Low Voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Toshiba also features a number of professionals such as protection of the spill keyboard, hard drive protection and a fingerprint reader.

If the battery life and portablility are a priority for the Portege A605 is probably worth it a look.