DESC: Trends are to higher transfer rate and to models that achieve the slim lines required for incorporation in ever-smaller portable PCs - without any loss of performance. Toshiba now brings state-of-the-art performance to a high-speed drive small and light enough to be incorporated in the portable PCs. XM-1502B is a super-slim drive offering an average 10-time rotational speed. It is only 12.7mm thick, can read an average of 1, 500 kilobytes of data a second, and achieves a low average power consumption of 2.7W. The enhanced performance of this compact, high-speed drive brings to portable computers a level of CD-ROM performance previously limited to desktop PCs.