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Cardboard box outlives Toshiba laptop

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The laptop was a Toshiba Satellite 310CDS, reportedly hot stuff back in the late 1990s.

The box it came in is what you see pictured above, and, unlike the laptop, it still fulfills a purpose today, according to a reader of the section of Reddit known appropriately as r/MildlyInteresting.

“We use this box for waste paper in the office,” he writes. “Its useful life has been more than a decade longer than the computer it contained.”

Who needs your fancy plastic recycling receptacle when you have a perfectly sturdy, if somewhat tape-fortified, cardboard one on hand already doing the job?

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Back to school: HP adds USB Type-C, Toshiba goes for a Cortana button

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With Windows 10 arriving during the “back to school” buying season, hardware OEMs are starting to show off their new Windows 10 systems.

Toshiba’s embrace of Windows 10 comes in two parts: a Cortana button on the keyboard and dual array microphones. The Cortana button is the F1 key; pressing it brings up a small Cortana window, and you can speak or type to Microsoft’s virtual agent to get things done. Windows 10 has an equivalent shortcut built in—Win-C—so it seems a little superfluous, but the one-button solution may feel a little more comfortable to the many computer users who don’t routinely use multi-key shortcuts.

The Toshiba Satellite C shows off the Cortana button. It’s the magnifying glass on the F1 key.
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Dual microphones aren’t new, and Toshiba has used them in the past. The company’s new lineup uses them across the board, from the Satellite C series starting at $ 394.99 through the Satellite L series starting at $ 529.99, up to the Satellite S series starting at $ 719.99, to provide better performance for Cortana’s voice recognition and in Skype and similar applications.

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