I have had excellent performance and reliability from the Toshiba's that I've owned. I'm not as thrilled with my wife's low-end model as I am my "next step up" (and a year older) model, so you do get what you pay for, to a point. I bought her's from BestBuy, on a sale, and mine came from toshibadirect.com when they still sould clearance and refurbished models on the site. Now the "deals" are on their ebay store.