Toshiba Portege Convertible Notebook Tablet Revealed

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Remember when the iPad was going to make the Windows-style Tablet PC obsolete? Then it turned out to be a super-sized iPod Touch and a market for Tablet PCs still existed. A leak out of Italy is showing off a new Toshiba convertible notebook-tablet PC that is running Windows 7 and will support all of it’s multi-touch features.

The new convertible notebook will be christened the M780. For those unfamiliar with convertible tablets, it can be used like a regular notebook, but the screen can be spun around and folded back onto the keyboard and be used like you’d expect a tablet to be used. The screen will be a 12-inch TruBright model and will be running at 1200 x 800. The screen will recognize multi-touch.

The computer will come running Windows 7, and you will be able to use Windows 7′s multi-touch controls perfectly on the new computer. As for the specs, the computer will come with either your choice of a Core i3 or i5 processor. It’ll be upgradable to 8gB of DDR3 RAM, no word on what the default selection will be. It will feature 2.5″ HDDs or SSDs, and will feature what Italian website notebookitalia calls “Toshiba’s 3D accelerometer”, which, reportedly will be able to protect hard drives from dropped laptops. How this is possible, isn’t explained.

The notebook will be aimed at the business-market, and will have a spill-resistant keyboard and will weigh in at 2 kg. They’ll start shipping in Europe and the Middle East in Q2 of this year, but no word on pricing. Blog Gizmodo speculates that the laptop will cost in excess of $3,000.