Advantages: Fast, Powerfull, Stylish design, Wireless, Lowest priced notebook relesaed by Toshiba!!!
Disadvantages: Sligthly small screen compared to others!!

...Toshiba Satellite Pro A100-830 I aquired one of these laptops as a Christmas present, and I was presently suprised at how fast this laptop was! It was incredibley easy to set up and I had finished the general setup and was downloading the updates within half an hour of opening the box! -Features- --Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 - 1.66GHz (x2), 667MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache --RAM: 512MB DDR2-533MHz --Hard Drive: 80GB Serial ATA 5400rpm --Screen: 15.4" Widescreen TruBrite TFT (1280x800 - 16:10) --Optical Drive: DVD±RW Super Multi Double Layer --Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600 supporting 512MB HyperMemory --Wireless LAN: 802.11a/b/g --Battery Life (Depending on Use): 1.9 hours --Weight: 2.7 kg --Warranty: 1 Year --Operating System: Windows XP Professional Edition --Fast Ethernet 10/100 --56k Dial... Read review

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Advantages: quite pretty, easy to use
Disadvantages: slow

...not be the model for you. As a brand Toshiba a good, i would recomend them even if you do not pick this model. There are 4 usb ports, you can use wireless internet and netweorking, it has a cd drive and apparently the ability to burn CDs and DVDs, but for some reason i havnt got mine working yet - this may just be me being stupid tho! I am not great with computer hardware, so there are lots more things that this model has that i wouldnt be able to explain,so sorry about that. The laptop is quite light compared to many other laptops. Overall, this laptop it good, if a bit slow.... Read review

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Advantages: Sound and video!
Disadvantages: Keeps breaking, recommd getting a 2 year warrenty

.... Overall: Its a lovely laptop for enterainment, i love sound and video quality. Toshiba did a good job designing this laptop but i would not under any circumstance recommend this as a notebook for serious gaming, regular carrying around... pretty heavy and might damage it - dispite the fact it has anti-shock features. Full specification Processor Type Intel Core Duo T2300 Processor speed 1660 mhz Memory Size 1024 MB Memory Type DDR2 Hard Drive Capacity 100 Gb Optical Drives DVD SuperMulti Dual Layer CD-ROM Speed 24 x CD-RW Speed. 10 x DVD-ROM Speed 8 x Screen Size/Type 15.4" WXGA Graphics Card Type ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 Graphics Memory 256 MB TV-out Sound Type 16 bit Stereo T Modem Type 56k Wireless Enabled No. of USB Connections 4 T No. of Firewire Connections... Read review

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Advantages: light, fast, stylish, great sound, 4 usb ports, SD card reader, 3 Years International Warranty
Disadvantages: expensive, no firewire, poor viewing angles, cramped 4 usb ports

...I bought this laptop computer, just around a month ago, before my stupid desktop went KO. Luckily at the time my desktop was dead, i have been using this to do my work, and to store important documents in it before i go overseas. Before i got this laptop, i have been browsing through the internet to look for a suitable laptop for myself. I tried so hard to look for one and finally, i came to know about this laptop. This laptop is a new model, only recently released this year(2004) around March/April. It was the TOSHIBA PORTEGE A100. I did not really know how to pronounce it. I thought it was something like 'por-tage', and i debated with my girlfriend about it. She says it is called 'Por-te-j'. In the end, she was right. I was teased. Nevermind, i admit she's smart. :) Why did i choose this? I've always like the design... Read review

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Advantages: Stlish digital slr
Disadvantages: sony customer service

...At first glance the sony alpha a100 feals slightyly plastickly, but this is partly due to the fact that the body itself is made out of plastic, never the less the sony a100 is a fantastic digital sslr for the first time photograhper. Although it is slightly dissapointing that sony has not made a vertical grip for this product, overall the smooth shiny feal to the sony alpha a100, feals nice, and the shutter button fits snugguly into your right hand, however the camera is exceptional, but the custumer service is dreadful, when i accidently smashed my sony alpha 3 days after purchasing it, i was devistated, but not to worry, i was soon on to sony, and was relieved that there was a set price of £114 but i had to forck out a lumply sum of £360 to get it fixed. There isnt realy a fixed price and the level of custumer service... Read review

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Advantages: Small, stylish, functional, 3 yr warranty
Disadvantages: Marginally underpowered, WiFi 802.11b (not g), screen gets dirty easily

...I wanted a laptop that was light and portable, that could handle average office and home tasks (but not high end games or video editing) and that was affordable. And I think that I found it, with a few minor quibbles. The Toshiba Portege A100 is 2.2 kg and definitely portable. It is not the smallest laptop but it packs in a good sized keyboard, CDRW/DVD player and excellent connectivity with 4 USB2 ports and a Firewire port. It has a Intel Pentium M Centrino 1.4 GHz processor which means that it is reasonably powered, certainly enough for office tasks, internet surfing and MP3 playing, and it has wireless technology built-in, alth