I don't know why everyone's giving Toshiba a bad rap. I've had a very good track record with the 3 Toshiba laptops I've had.
The 9 yr old one, while certainly outdated, is running better than when it came out of the box (it was loaded with ME, now has XP). A 7 year old Toshiba is still running great, and the newest one hasn't run into any problems since i bought it in Jan.
Maybe I'm just lucky?