Toshiba... Is this a great deal?

Toshiba Satellite at Best Buy for $400. They are sold out, but may get some more in. Is it worth going and standing in line for? I would use it for web surfing, e-mailing photos from a digi camera, and some Photoshop use. I know Photoshop may run a little slow, but most of that work I will be doing at home on my desktop. I'd just like to be able to "tweak" a photo a bit before e-mailing it. I don't really plan to use it for games. Maybe the RAM should be upgaded?



They did have one on display. I really like the "matte" screen. This has an "XGA" screen. Is that good, since I like not having the glare that most screens seem to have? Is Toshiba a good brand? Any idea on battery run time?



THANKS!





Intel?Celeron?M processor 380 with 400MHz frontside bus, 1MB L2 cache and 1.6GHz processor speed





256MB PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB





DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive







15" XGA active-matrix TFT-LCD display with 1024 x 768 resolution









40GB EIDE (ATA-6) hard drive (5400 rpm)









ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M graphics with 32MB-128MB dynamically allocated shared video memory; DirectSound support; S-video TV-out









CD/DVD control buttons include play, stop, skip forward and skip back









3 high-speed USB 2.0 ports for fast digital video, audio and data transfer









Built-in Atheros high-speed wireless LAN (802.11b/g); 10/100Base-TX Ethernet LAN with RJ-45 connector; V.92 high-speed modem









Weighs 5.7 lbs. and measures just 1.4" thin for easy portability; lithium-ion battery









Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition operating system preinstalled; software package included with Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Sonic Solutions RecordNow! Basic, InterVideo WinDVD 5 and more

thats not too bad. but best buy will probably never get another in.

Yup, even if they did have it in stock, they only set aside a few for advertisement purposes. They can afford to let a few go for cheap to lure peeps in, but when they run out, they'll get it in stock when the sale's up.



... but it was a good buy.

I have a Toshiba laptop, i HATE it, worst computer i've ever owned, nothing but problems since the day I got it. They refuse to fix anything under warranty, after only owning the laptop for 2 months I had to take it apart myself to fix a bad solder job on the DC power connector. They wanted $80 to fix it, plus all the wasted time bringing it to the repair depot and back. So i fixed it myself, and thats just one of my many many compaints about Toshiba.
STAY AWAY FROM TOSHIBA!!