The beautiful brushed effect and tiled keyboard makes the NB305 one of the most beautiful Toshibas yet (View larger)

The Toshiba NB305 is a stylish, heavy duty mini notebook--boasting a hefty 250GB hard drive and 11 hours battery life--it's everything a media loving person on the move could require.

Outstanding Design

Toshiba TruBrite Crystal Clear Display

The large widescreen offers a TruBrite Crystal Clear Display for clearer, brighter images. The display is ideal for viewing the latest movies with its 16:9 true widescreen ratio and improves the contrast and clarity of everything you view, allowing you to view movies in their intended format.

Technical Highlights

Toshiba LifeSpace

Lifespace combines the Bulletin Board and ReelTime apps to help you take control of your work (View larger)

Maximise your experience of Windows 7 and see the NB305 come alive with LifeSpace. A free productivity application suite, LifeSpace gives you a personalised approach to accessing your files, organising daily activities, projects and more. LifeSpace is a unique collection of apps designed by Toshiba to make computing simple, intuitive and fun and is great for work and home across all age groups. Complimenting the Windows 7 operating system, LifeSpace helps you simplify your PC experience through personalisation and quicker access to the things that matter the most to you, thanks to Bulletin Board and ReelTime.

Bulletin Board is an easy-to-use visual organisation tool that allows you to create a personalised space for managing projects, viewing tasks, photos and more. Organise your day, your events, and your life with a virtual pin board. Stick reminders, photos or tasks onto the board to help you organise or to ensure you don't forget an important appointment. Bulletin Board is a simple, intuitive and pleasant experience to handle your daily digital life.

Remember that file you looked at a while back but have no idea where you kept it on your PC? Well with Toshiba’s ReelTime, a visual timeline of your file history up to 3 months old is kept so that you can cut through the clutter to find what you are looking for quickly and easily. It sits above the Windows taskbar and the timeline can be easily scrolled through until you find the file you're looking for.

Integrated Web Camera

The NB305 features an integrated web camera. The camera and microphone let you see and hear your contacts online, and can take still pictures, video clips and audio notes. With Toshiba's integrated webcam communication is made easy--network with friends and family from the comfort of your own home.

Media Controller lets you easily share media to TVs, mini notebooks, smartphones and media players.

Toshiba Media Controller

A new interface to make content streaming easy, Toshiba Media Controller software facilitates media sharing between connected multimedia devices. Media Controller allows you to stream videos, music and pictures from a media library to TVs, mini notebooks, smartphones or media players through a simple drag-and-drop interface. The system allows media sharing on networks under one single unified user interface through Windows 7's "play to" functionality and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) which ensures interoperability of connected devices in a home multimedia network. Toshiba Media Controller makes multimedia file sharing a breeze. Easily display videos captured with a mobile phone via a network connection directly on a mini notebook and stream movies stored on a mini notebook to a large HD TV (requires DLNA-certified device) without knowledge about network configuration and with only a few clicks.

Toshiba ConfigFree

ConfigFree's Wireless Radar feature makes connecting to nearby Wi-Fi networks a breeze

Connect to the Internet easily thanks to Toshiba's ConfigFree suite. ConfigFree features Wireless Radar which displays nearby active Wi-Fi access points in a radar-like graphical interface. Draw a line from your computer to easily connect to Wi-Fi access points. Connectivity Doctor analyses your network connection and assists in fixing problems, features easy diagnosis and repair of communication problems, and shows detailed network. Profile Settings allows you to easily switch between network configurations and profiles can be created to capture the settings in different locations and switched automatically or semi-automatically. Finally, Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) features a push button config setting to easily setup a secured connection between an access point/router and your mini notebook.

Toshiba Eco Utility

Save mini notebook power with Eco Utility, a power saving application designed by Toshiba to encourage better energy efficient usage. Accessed via the Windows taskbar, once activated you can monitor and begin saving power consumption immediately. A power consumption chart can be displayed to show the increase and decrease of power consumption when the Eco Mode is active. The utility is designed to offer a graphic view of consumption while using the mini notebook, as well as a historical record of consumption which can display both power consumption (displayed in WH) and CO2 emissions (displayed in kg). Eco Utility allows the user to work in a power-saving Eco Power Plan. Once Eco mode is activated, the system works accordingly to set Eco-friendly parameters, such as automatically dimming the display brightness, disabling LED and keyboard backlighting, and reducing the time before activating the hard drive sleep mode.

3D Hard Disk Protection

The NB305 instinctively protects your data on the move. When it senses that your mini notebook makes sudden moves--from dropping the machine to picking it up--the HDD head is unloaded, removing it from close proximity to the media, and so decreases the possibility of damage. Once the notebook returns to a stationary state, the head is loaded back to its regular position.

Four levels of protection help to prevent a false detection--so turn on maximum protection when the mini notebook is unlikely to move--such as on a desk--and move it to a more liberal level when working on the train or in a situation where the mini notebook is likely to move slightly.