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.