Toshiba Satellite U205, Portege R400, Satellite P105, Satellite A135

Fingerprint readers are standard fare on the U205 and the presence of one draws into question the consumer positioning of the system since biometric security is normally the sort of thing that appeals to businesses and the fact that consumers won't make use of.

The fingerprint reader is a part of Toshiba's LifeSmart package of components that shows up on most of Toshiba's Satellite-branded systems. Even so, we think it should be on every notebook because at the end of the day, notebooks get lost and if they have biometric security like this one does, it raises the barrier to entry by someone who might go in and take advantage of things like user IDs and passwords that are cached in your browser.

For David Berlind's write-up on the U205 see his post in ZDNet's TestBed blog.