Toshiba A45-S250 PC Notebook

Pros: Quality build, decent performance, affordable, loaded with options.
Cons: Screen could be a bit brighter, ATI or Nvidia graphics chipset would be nice!

I had been using my 3 year old Fujitsu laptop trying to meet a deadline for a big project at work. Although it was a decent performer for its time, the need to work in several Excel spreadsheets, surf the web and convert documents to PDF format at the ...

Pros: Good price, well equiped, has the latest stuff
Cons: A bit heavy if I had to take it on a plane.

I bought mine recently at Circuit City for $1299 after rebates, although Best Buy had it for the same price. So far I find it to be an excellent overall machine. I thought it might be a bit faster than my desktop which is 3 years old, but it seems to be about the same speed, nonetheless it works well and connected to the net right away. Plays DVDs and records in and -, too, which is a nice feature, since they have not settled on a format for dvd burning yet.

I am pleased with my S250.

Pros: dvd +-r, wireless, lots of usb, tv-out (s-video)
Cons: xp home

i bought this laptop from best buy. i reformatted it w/ xp pro cuz i need to do development on it. so far so good. this is a great laptop. very fast, easy to use. restoration disk is cool. dvd burner is awesome. i was either gonna buy this one or the sony vaio pr37, i chose this one because it had built-in wireless g, dvd +- R, and ram is expandable to 2gb. vaio didnt have any of this.