Toshiba Satellite P200-1EE

Have had for about a year now. Cost about £560 when bought around Jan 2008.Fast. Quiet, mostly! Full-size keyboard with number pad. Lovely clear & bright screen (17" widescreen). Feels fairly solid. Good wireless connectivity.Ubuntu and Mandriva work on this without a hitch. 99% of the bits and pieces work under Linux (the media buttons don't but I understand it's trivial to get them working too).Would recommend buying -- especially to someone wanting to install Linux.

This Toshiba Satellite P200-1EE laptop is the best I have ever owned, it has had zero problems since i bought it in dec 07 and i never turn it off. ever. was really surprised with its graphical performance (ATI radeon HD2600), as i had been put off buying COD4 for months because systemrequirementslab had told me this laptop would never run it and so i downloaded the demo just to see anyway and it performed really well, it ran at medium to high settings not quite Xbox 360 standard but still more than acceptable. i think that this laptop was a steal at £659 in dec and understand that it can now be bought for £459 so an even better deal.

This is my second laptop and overall Im very happy with it, the screen is great quality and gives a crystal clear look to dvd playback and the system is capable of running quite tough games, the most surprising to me was stalker (shadow of chernobyl) which I had assumed was well above this machines capability but it runs no problem, the speed of this machine is also quite impressive and it runs quietly. The general build quality is great and the hinge seems to be about the toughest I've seen but the glossy finish to the top is too easy to mark and soon looks grubby because it shows every fingerprint. Overall though this is a great machine for the money and I really recommend them!