Toshiba Portege M400

attractive design, a construction, solid and rigid against torsions, intelligent display mechanics and catch hook system, good values of brightness and illumination measurements, low temperature emissions, acceptable battery runtime

partially too low resistance against pressure upon the case, wobbly battery, too small keys, permanently running fan, even without load

The Toshiba Portege M400 hardly warms up during operation. As maximum surface temperature 32.9°C were measured. This is dubious, because of the constantly running fan, since a slightly higher temperature is less bad than a few decibels more noise...

Durable design • Good productivity performance • Low price

Short battery life • Limited tech-support hours • Noisy fan

Integrated Verizon EV-DO. Intel Core Duo processor. Built-in optical drive

Cramped keyboard. Low battery life

If prestige is what you're after, the M400-S4032 is the only convertible tablet currently available that's blessed with both integrated EV-DO wireless and a dual-core processor.

Low cost ; User-installable drive ; Large feature set ; Wide video format support

Buggy in spots ; No native Netflix support ; Noisy fan ; Spotty metadata handling

HD networked media player with extensive format support and user-installable hard drive

Good performance and very good battery life. Plenty of ports, good viewing angle, internal optical drive means you can watch DVDs on the plane. Intel wired and wireless networking are strong and the Bluetooth option offers 2.0 + EDR speeds. Biometric...

Standard XGA resolution doesn't put the M400 ahead of the tablet competition. No recovery media included so you must burn your own CDs (about 10 of them!)

The Toshiba M400 is a bargain among Windows XP Tablet Edition convertibles. The Core Duo (now standard), SATA hard drive, optical drive and plenty of ports make this a very capable portable, yet the notebook is light and very compact. We love having...

Toshiba's Portege M400 sports a decent set of hardware components. It's also ergonomically a pretty good mobile computer in standard clamshell open mode. It has a typically small keyboard and touchpad, both of which I'd like to see drastically...

Like almost all Tablet PCs, the M400 uses the Wacom digitizer with its sleek active pen that does not need batteries. The pen garage is on the right side of the computer where you're never quite sure if the pen is there or not. I much preferred the...

Like the reviewer, I've owned Toshiba laptops on and off for the better part of twenty years, including six Porteges. Porteges have always been premium products with excellent build quality and a terrific mix of features and ergnomic excellence in a...