[Drivesthebeast]

I have an A70 Tosh as well, and it's been both good and bad, but more good overall. It lacks a bit in speed now (only has 512mb internal ram right now) when it comes to stuff thats high demand on the memory or video card. I can usually multi-task mine out the wazzoo, except with running a program like Limewire or playing a hi res game like NFSMW Black Edition. It's been pretty reliable overall since it's been to Afghanistan for 6 months, was involved in a rollover in a Bison 8x8 APC, etc. I've never had it in to be serviced or even cleaned for anything. I just used an air duster a couple times, and do the cleansweep and defrag at least once per month on both the laptop, and my external hardrive.

I purchased it from my local Staples Biz Depot in Pembroke, and bought the 4 year additional warranty on it. I can basically return it to the store destroyed and get a new one if I wanted to.

Toshibas have always been very highly rated for a Windows driven unit. I've not any experience with Apple stuff in a long time, so I can't say anything about them.

Hope this helps