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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
For $999, the 7-pound Toshiba Satellite A65-S126 is a great deal for the sheer number of features: a 15-inch screen, combination DVD/ CD-RW drive, and a 60GB hard drive.
Though the blue lid is attractive, this notebook's performance could give you a different kind of blues. Equipped with a 2.8-GHz Celeron processor and only 256MB of RAM, the A65-S126 earned an anemic WorldBench 5 score of 41. By comparison, laptops equipped with the higher-end 1.6-GHz Pentium M processor, earned an average score of 75. Activities that don't tax the processor, such as e- mail and word processing, should work fine...