Toshiba Satellite L500

Width: 38.3 cm
Depth: 25.9 cm
Height: 3.9 cm, 39.3 cm
Weight: 2.7 kg, 2.6 kg
Colour: Steel grey, silver snow, Aluminium silver
Platform Technology: Intel Centrino

Processor
Intel Pentium T4200 / 2 GHz, Intel Pentium T4300 / 2.1 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 / 2.2 GHz, Intel Celeron T3000 / 1.8 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 / 2.1 GHz, AMD Turion X2 mobile processor RM-74 / 2.2 GHz, AMD Athlon II M300 / 2 GHz

Cache memory
L2 Cache / 1 MB, 2 MB, 512 KB

Ram
4 GB / 8 GB (max), 4 GB / 4 GB (max), 3 GB / 8 GB (max)
DDR2 SDRAM - 800 MHz

Features
Security lock slot (cable lock sold separately), administrator password, system password, hard drive password, Security lock slot (cable lock sold separately), administrator password

OS Provided
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (32/64 bits), Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (32/64 bits)

Software
Drivers & Utilities, Microsoft Works, Toshiba ConfigFree, Connectivity Doctor, McAfee Internet Security Suite (30 days subscription), Toshiba Supervisor Password Utility, Toshiba Assist, Toshiba Recovery DiskCreator, Toshiba PC Health Monitor, Toshiba Disc Creator, WildTangent Game Console, Google Software Pack, Toshiba Value Added Package, Chicony Camera Assistant Software, Face Recognition software, Toshiba DVD Player, Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (60 days trial)

Sony Vaio VGN-NW20EF/S

Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 / 2.2 GHz, Intel Pentium T4300 / 2.1 GHz
Dual-Core
64-bit Computing
800 MHz
Mobile Intel GM45 Express, Mobile Intel PM45 Express, Mobile Intel GL40 Express OS

Provided:
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition

Software:
VAIO Recovery Utility, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, VAIO Gate, Sony Picture Motion Browser, Google Software Pack, Microsoft Windows Media Player 11, VAIO Content Importer / Exporter, Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition (60 days trial), VAIO Movie Story, Sony Click to Disc Editor 1.0, VAIO Media Plus, Roxio Easy Media Creator 10, Adobe Reader 9, McAfee Internet Security Suite (60 days trial)

Battery
Technology: Lithium Ion, Installed Qty: 1, Run Time (Up To): 4 hour(s), 4.5 hour(s)

This is a very a stylish, light weight laptop. The one touch web button is so handy as well, it realy is fast. The windows 7 home premium is like vista on steroids, its that fas, allthough it does take about 20 gb of hard drive but with 320gb of hard drive it hardly dents it.

The built in webcam is again almost real time graphics as you speak youre lips move, not two minuets later. The software you get you get with the webcam is very good as well. The only thing i find with any new latop is all the stuff they put on it like the office 2007 very nice, but only for 60 days, after spending £500 on a laptop there is not much left for nicetys like office 2007 i am just hopeing that after it runs out you can still put office 2000 on and the same applies with anti virus software were avg will do nicely.

There is also a movie maker software on it as well but i have not had time to experiment with it as i have only had the laptop a day. But summing up all in all me and my wife like it and for being a home computer it does everything we need and a lot more besides and a lot quicker than other laptops weve had in the past.