Over at Laptop 4 Ever, CEH has posted a review of the Toshiba Equium L40-17M, suggesting that if you’re looking for a reasonably priced notebook it “makes a decent compromise between features, price and working capabilities”.

Though CEH thinks the design is “basic rather than modish”, he likes the “good-sized keys for ease of typing” and finds the overall layout to be “sagacious”. Due to the sub-£500 price, CEH realizes that it won’t contain the highest tech specs, but reckons the L40-17M “makes the highest of what it’s stuffed up with” with its duel-core Pentium chip, 2GB of RAM and 15.4 inch display which “offers a bountiful space to work on and it has a nearly customary widescreen resolution of 1,280×800 pixels”.

Though CEH thinks the battery life could be improved, he finds the Equium L40-17M to be “capable of most jobs you put it through” and will “get the job done”. Head over to Laptop 4 Ever for the full review.

“With the demands of the new Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System and Microsoft Office applications becoming increasingly higher, you might be thinking it’s about time to ask your boss for a new laptop” begins the review of the Toshiba P300 (click here for full spec) over at our good pals at gaj-it.com. And by golly they’re right! 

For far too many folk, dubious laptops seemingly left over from the cold-war bring nothing more than frustration and lack of productivity. And as Arutha (author of the review) says “for the next generation of business laptops this is one to consider”, pointing out the dual core processor and 2GB of RAM, alongside the enviable 200GB hard drive space and DVD writer as standard.

Of course, the P300 isn’t perfect for everybody… “For us gamers don’t even go there” – but if it is a business laptop you are after, then this is certainly one to consider according to gaj-it.com who heartily recommend “writing those ‘recommendation’ letters to your boss…” You heard them – get to it!

Hands up who’s excited by Solid State drives! Good work – now read on, for remarkable news is afoot. 

For, you see, Mr. Shozo Saito of Toshiba has revealed at a recent Japanese seminar that not only are his company hoping to ‘flesh out’ their line of SSD discs within the next few years, but plans are afoot to offer drives with as much as 512GB of room packed into their sleek drives.

Mr. Saito went further, expecting “a full quarter of laptops sold in 2011 to come equipped with an SSD” – which is extremely exciting news, considering that the first decade of the noughties is rapidly crashing to a close. Engadget were clearly excited, expressing their sentiments sublimely into a single sentence: “Move over Samsung — that 256GB SSD you’ve been touting is now half as cool as it used to be”