We thought we’d indulge in a bit of a blast about some of the UK’s most popular Social Media meeting places today on talkToshiba – while we prepare the ground for tomorrow’s special feature, profiling one of our favourite presences out in the space.

We’ve been browsing Twitter (you can follow us there for almost instant blog updates if you so desire) and noted a couple of interesting points. Firstly, Karl Goddard who runs the Learning ICT blog, who we can only imagine has picked up perhaps a Satellite P200 and seems particularly happy with his purchase - “now playing with shiny new Toshiba laptop… monster 17″ screen, fullsize kboard im even likin Vista - but no built in web cam - pics later!”

Meanwhile, Usha Vencatachallam too has informed followers via his ‘tweetery’ that he is having fun with Toshiba too “Sony Vaio just upped and died. Toshiba is my new best friend. Making a snap laptop decision is not as bad as I imagined.” John from vivaveracruz however has managed to get his trip back in order, thanks to Toshiba and his sister-in-law. “While our return to New Mexico has been delayed because my new laptop died and needed attending to, I borrowed a fine seldom used Toshiba laptop from my sister-in-law.”

A cursory glance at Facebook reveals 1,441 Toshiba fans keen to express their opinion of the brand – and Wasim Arshad has expressed his thoughts on one model particularly. “I have had my Toshiba Equium M40X-189 laptop for around 3 years now and it has never become physically faulty! It’s brilliant!!”

Finally – does anyone run a Toshiba laptop with Linux? Zeke certainly does, and stumbled upon this fascinating article with advice on just that…