Toshiba have an offer running until the of 15th January that can nab you a free netbook - it’s free if you live in Australia and you purchase another Toshiba product.

Customers who purchase a Toshiba XV500 series LCD HDTV with a 37, 42 or 46 inch screen between the 1st of December, and 15th of January can redeem their free netbook online up until the 29th January 2009. The netbook that Toshiba are giving away is the NB100 which usually retails at $799. You can redeem your netbook at www.toshibaav .com.au/redemption.

Via: SmartHouse and engadgetHD

Good news for netbook users with the need for a larger sized storage facility - Toshiba will soon be launching a range of solid state drives that can offer you between 8GB and 32GB of storage and read/write speeds of 80MB/sec and 50MB/sec respectively. There will also be a 2.5 inch notebook version with 256GB of storage and read/write speeds of 120MB/sec and 70MB/sec.

Exact release dates and pricing details are unknown but, expect a release towards the end of the year and more information as it comes in.

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Last week, signs of Toshiba’s netbook, the NB100 spread across the web courtesy of Toshiba Mexico. Since there was no official word yet from Toshiba that time, everybody took it as another pre-empted announcement which might likely happen after several more months.

But taking a cue from Dell, Toshiba decided to launched it own netbook now. And so we finally have an official statement coming from Toshiba regarding the NB100.

Like we said before, the NB100 looks sleek and professional to make the netbook in tune with the business/corporate setting.

Anyway we now have the following specs for the Toshiba NB100:

• 8.9-inch LCD display resolution (1024 x 600)
• 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor
• 512MB or 1GB of RAM
• 120GB of HD
• 0.3 megapixel webcam
• Wi-Fi
• USB, VGA, Audio and Ethernet ports.

The Toshiba NB100 will be available next month for a retail price of  around $469.

Via Register Hardware

We didn’t see this coming and there was certainly no noise, hype or buzz regarding Toshiba’s very own netbook - the NB105. Although Toshiba is one of the major PC players, nobody was really expecting it to join the netbook fray.

Anyway, the said NB105 netbook was quietly introduced by Toshiba Mexico. For their netbook baby, Toshiba decided to go the more proferssional look but certainly with all the netbook goodies you’d expect from a major PC maker.

For its specs, the Toshiba NB105 is packed with the usual Intel Atom N270 processor, an 8.9-inch (1024×600), full-featured standard keyboard, 1GB of RAM, 3 USB port, SDHC card reader, Wifi, and 120GB HD. The NB105 will get a Windows XP or Linux OS and will most probably be released sometime in November. No pricing information yet.

Via Blogeee.net

Toshiba may have sent some feelers that it is also keen on coming out with its own netbook/mini-pc that would rival the Eee PC and the others the past of couple of days. But if the market trends for netbook is to be its basis for manufacturing their own netbook, Toshiba would rather explore on a different avenue rather than join the already saturated netbook market since, prices of netbooks and UMPC would seem not to be a profitable niche anymore.

PCAuthority is running a story on Toshiba’s prototype mini-book. A 5.6-inch mini-book which runs on Vista and powered by Intel’s Atom processor. It’s motherboard was said to be half the size of the Portege R500 notebook’s motherboard. It is also packed with a 64GB SSD and a GPS.

However, although the mini-book prototype may seemed cool, Toshiba doesn’t think that it is a viable product due to its small screen. Hence, Toshiba is looking into coming out with a ULPC instead of a netbook since it doesn’t want to compete with the Eee PC and the netbook brands anymore due to the decreasing prices of netbooks.

Actually, the prototype could very well speak of what Toshiba is planning to manufacture. We’re thinking that with a larger screen, it would now be a more viable product for the UMPC market.

Let’s see what Toshiba can come up with in the coming days.

Via [Electronista]