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Bought this laptop last week, so far so good. It was a display model at Staples, so got a good deal (I hope). The only thing I immediately noticed with this laptop is the battery life (according to the specs at the store) is WAY off. Five hours? Ummm, sorry Charlie. Try 2.5 hours and that's after fully charging it overnight. :(

Aside from that, hell it runs. I love the screen. I'm older, my eyesight is shot and this wide screen is very, very easy on my tired eyes.

Also, I'm a die-hard fan of AMD, never liked Intel processors, so I'm glad this in an AMD. As for "what it clocks out at" -- who cares. It runs, it boots, it boots programs fairly quickly, I don't need greased lightning, I'm not a gamer.

I have noticed that when you pop a DVD in to watch, there's no audio coming out of the speakers. Wot up with that? Yet when I visit, say YouTube, it has audio for videos no problem. So the audio isn't booming bass, that's okay, just happy it has audio... Read more

This is great laptop. Finally great price and performance point that can fully replace home desktop. It even runs basic games with no problems. So far I played Half Life 2, Need for Speed World, Team Fortress 2, portal 2, all with high settings at 1600x900 and no problems whatsoever. On Grand theft Auto IV it started to choke a bit and I had to reduce quality settings to get good frame-rates.
Overall - great machine that will be more powerful than most people would need for a long time, unless you want to play latest and greatest games, then you got to spend a bit more.

Screen is bright. Processing is fast. Enough memory to run even the most memory hog application. Could not beat the price either. One hint Buy an extended warranty. The limited warranty with Toshiba sucks. I am able to multitask quite well and have several windows open and applications running. You might want to uninstall some of the bloatware but so far it hasn't been a problem for me.