For those of you that like Intel Mobile processors this could be nice but how much extra will you pay for this? Since I won't waste my monies on another slow/expensive Intel I'm pretty much stuck with HP who carries the Turion X2 hopefully they will have a BD coming out or even better yet a combo drive (BD-HD). I have 3 Toshiba Satellites and really don't like any of them however they are pretty.

I have a Satellite and love it. Admittedly, I bought at the wrong time, (got a Centrino duo chip and the core 2 duos came out a few months later.) Its a little slower than other computers, (Ie, my AMD 4600+ outperforms it) but it is soooo sturdy. Plus, it has a really nice laptop key set.

In contrast I had two different HP Pavililions over the course of 5 years which were consistently breaking on me.

Pavilion is a desktop it's not comparable to a notebook but the HP notebooks have had issues with their choice in HDD's, minor problems that the warranty covers. My notebooks are CenCrapo's too but not the Core2 which is much better for power and speed, still too expensive though when you can get a Turion for MUCH cheaper, Faster, and Stable as well.

I wouldn't buy any prefab'd desktop just for the fact that you get bottom of the barrel parts and no XP/Vista install CDVD. The restore crap is for the birds and not a clean install since it’s plagued with trial garbage and whatever else they wish to impose on you.