A word of advice - if these are for Xmas presents, unpack and test them NOW. If one of them is dead/has hardware issue, you can get it replaced. If you only find a fault on Xmas day, it will be sent for repair.

I get this loads in my job, peeps buy a lappy now for an Xmas present, then it comes back on boxing day with a fault "we only opened it yesterday" and I have to send it for repair.

Cheers Mike, good advice. The Missus is messing about with them now and I'm off to clean the ****e off the car!!!

Enjoy it! One word of warning, which we found to our cost, is watch how you wrap the power cord round the power pack (if you pack up the laptop after each time you use it) as we did it wrong (although it was the easiest way of doing it) and after a year the cord came loose and I had to get a new power pack.

I have a Toshiba laptop, the only bug bear with mine is battery life.

You may find it only has a 4000mah battery, which when its powering a big screen, core duo cpu, Hard drive, DVD and Ram runs out in no time. My lower spec'd EEE pc has 1000mah more as standard and goes on for hours, whereas the toshiba goes for about 30-45 mins and needs recharging.

Just a heads up.

HP is doing £100 cash back on some laptops through November

> HP £100 Cashback Offer from CCL - Awarded PC Pro Best Online Retailer of the Year 2008 for PC, PC Components, Laptops, Notebook, Computer Components, Intel Servers, Hard Drives, PC Memory

I don't think it's restricted to CCL.