Laptop Thoughts: Toshiba's Mini NB250

"The new Mini NB250 boasts a typical 1,024 x 600 resolution backlit LED, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N455 CPU, integrated GMA 3150 graphics, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. It's also packing three USB ports, a multicard reader and a webcam, plus 802.11 b/g/n wireless, Ethernet and Bluetooth. It comes with a three-cell battery standard, but there's an optional six-cell which will purportedly get you around eight and a half hours of life."

At $299 the Toshiba NB250 looks like a solid entry at the value end of the netbook line. I'd like to see the bottom end get a slight upgrade in screen resolution, but other than that, most of the other upgrades to the higher end models, I can live without.