Toshiba NB305 Netbook Unveiled [New Toshiba Netbook Gets Pine Trail, New Keyboard, Software]

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Just a few days ago, we gave a very preliminary report on the new Toshiba Pine Trail-powered netbooks, and now more specific details on the new Toshiba NB305 netbook have been released. The main new selling point of course is the inclusion of the new Pine Trail Atom N450 processor.

But, unlike others, Toshiba isn’t putting Pine Trail into an older model – they’re adding quite a few new upgrades to the NB305. NB305 buyers will get a 250GB hard drive vs. the 160GB drive commonly found on other netbooks and on the previous Toshiba models. The NB305 also sports a smaller 6-cell battery than it’s previous models, but thanks to the energy-efficient Pine Trail chip, it has a longer (11 hours) battery life.

Toshiba isn’t stupid and knows that consumers can choose between eight identical netbooks, all with a Pine Trail Processor, 10-inch screen, 1GB of RAM and Windows 7, so to different their netbook, they’re adding some new features to help the NB305 stand ahead of the other models. For example, you can get the ‘Chiclet’ keys on the keyboard, first popularized by Apple’s MacBook, that are popular with consumers.

Toshiba is also offering a trackpad that is ‘full-sized’, like something you’d find on a regular notebook, as opposed to the shrinking ones most netbooks carry. The NB305 will also come with some new software, to compliment the Windows 7 experience. Toshiba’s NB305 is set to be released January 8th, and will cost $400.