I have an HP 1540 14inch widescreen with 100gig hard drive and has great speed and I love it. Ofcourse, I don't use it for wider purposes but simple-medium applications runs great, never tried out with applications that take a lot out of CPU's. But for me, the only problem is that it heats up fast, like some of the people above have mentioned. Other than that, the laptop is great. I think the laptop should be 14inch and then it looks like a laptop and i don't like the bigger size anyways. My screen is beautiful, I love it, it looks great and so far its fine. I wouldn't give it a 8 out of 10, but hey, it looks very beautiful and unless my work starts giving me something that I really have to use a much stronger speed and faster processing, I am happy with what I have. For me, as many of my hardcore computer geek colleagues would like to disagree, looks matter. For instance, my next one will be apple no matter what, it looks so very cute with that little apple sign bitten. For that reason, I even bought an IPOD. Thats that.