Four-hour battery life (with $39 battery upgrade) is virtually unmatched among sub-seven-pound laptops. Price-to-performance ratio is exceptional. Speakers boomingly loud even at 20-percent volume.

Intel Core 2 Duo T5200 processor (Merom core), 1GiB RAM, 54g WiFi, 100GB hard drive, multiformat DVD ReWriter, 15.4in TFT, Windows Vista Home Premium operating system.... It sounds like a nice ...