Toshiba Satelite L300-29T

What a strange review! I saw the marks out of ten and was expecting the laptop to get a real hammering but it was quite the opposite. Okay the performance isn't up to much but you said yourself that for the sake of a £15 memory upgrade it could easily be improved. If that was the only downside (one which I do agree with) why such low marks, especially for value? I'm in the market for a budget laptop and looking at the scores I would give this a wide berth but having read the review I'm quite tempted (obviously with a RAM upgrade and probably with Win7 on too).

@Wedge:
Nope, it's still the 32-bit edition of Vista Home Premium with the L300-29X, which is fine as the only reason you'd want 64-bit is for using over 3.5GB of RAM in intensive usage scenarios, which you wouldn't try to run on a budget laptop.

@Neil B:
Thanks for your comment, Neil. Unfortunately what we're reviewing is this particular configuration (with its crippling 1GB), not the chassis, which as both you and the review say isn't bad at all for the money. Hence the low value score, since for only £10 more you can get a far superior machine. Had we reviewed the L300-29X rather than the 29T, the value score would probably have been far higher, as would the overall one.

Good luck with your purchase!

I recently bought the L300-22E which is the AMD 2.1Ghz version with 3GB RAM and a 250GB hard disk. Its a good budget machine (although a card reader really would have been nice!) and the best bit is with the apparently ongoing £50 cashback from Toshiba it only cost about £380 online