Toshiba Satellite A15-S157 (psa10u-01c8wv) PC Notebook

Pros: Good price, great performance, lightweight, big screen
Cons: mediocre touchpad and batterylife

Lightweight, big screen, great price, good performance makes this the perfect laptop for a college student. Background: My brother and I were looking for a laptop for him to buy for his freshmen year in college (Fall 2003). We purchased this ...

Pros: Powerful: 2.2GHZ cpu, 512MB ram, 40GB hard drive, Built-in Wi-fi
Cons: Very basic feature set, limited ports, Windows XP Home.

I bought this laptop only recently but I have had quite a few laptops and can give you a feature overview beyond what you will get from the spec sheet or the salesman. And indeed, this computer is a "laptop" as it could not be considered to be the size of ...

Pros: USB 2 Dual Display Connectivity Software Integrated WiFi 10/100 v.92 56k Programmable Fn Norton AV
Cons: Home Edition Low-End Office Suite One PCMCIA slot

This notebook has everything you can expect. The lack of legacy interfaces such as ps/2 and serial is something you'll see in all computers today. Though, if you need backwards compatibility with a device this can easily be obtained with inexpensive US ...

Pros: Great Price, Built-in Wi-Fi, volume control on front, hotkeys, battery life.
Cons: Screen clarity, only 1 pcmcia slot, no memory card slot.

I bought this laptop yesterday and can tell that it is going to surpass by expectations with ease!! I sold my Sony Vaio, (1.3ghz, 30gig hd, 14" screen, 256mb ram, dvd/cd-rw), for this. The Sony locked up on me right out of the box, but that's another ...

Pros: Good screen resolution Nice touch pad Volume control Easy to use cd-rw Wireless Internet
Cons: Bad speakers/sound No feet in back to prop up Flimsy design

After having a Sony laptop for almost 3 years, it was time for me to upgrade to a faster more proficient computer one that could do all of the things that I could no longer do with my Sony. I was completely sold on buying another laptop because of all ...

Pros: Light, High processor speed
Cons: hard drive gets heated fast No S video output CD drive may crash

I bought this laptop One and a half year ago and hasn't given me many problems, except the toshiba hard drive that it came with fried after 1/12 year. The laptop is really light and portable.

Pros: Built-in Wi-Fi and loads of capacity for less than $1000 (after rebates)
Cons: No built-in microphone.

If you want the most features for the least amount of cost, for a home laptop, then the Toshiba A15-S157 is a great deal. The criteria I used to choose this laptop were:

Less than $1000 after rebates? Yes
Built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet? Yes
More than 256MB of RAM? Yes
Larger than 30GB of Hard Disk? Yes
Larger than 14" screen? Yes
Name brand? Yes
DVD/CD-R(W) built-in drive? Yes
Faster than 2.0 GHz? Yes

I was amazed that the laptop met all my requirements, considering it will be primarily for email, web browsing, and playing multimedia. If you buy this laptop to try to do more than that, then you may be disappointed.