I use with a wireless mouse. Has plenty of ports and capability to expand. Wireless connection in seconds

Negatives: The DVD drive is a bit touchy to close (need to hold it in..not automatic close)and the keyboard area surface is shiny/high gloss, so you have fingerprints everywhere.

Battery life seems to be at least 3-4 hours (have not had it long enough to check it out.

I have a notebook for travel, so this machine fills the bill for me.
Rating: 5 / 5

PROS:

- This is an extremely fast machine. It boots up in under a minute with Windows 7 and I have yet to notice the occasional lag with starting up programs that I experience with most Windows PC’s.

- Newer games like “Dragon Age: Origins” run extremely well on this machine with all of the graphics maxed out

- The screen on this computer is beautiful. The color quality and contrast are extremely good and there is a ton of screen real estate. Some people have complained that it isn’t full 1080p but I find that the 1680×945 resolution makes icons and text the perfect size for this size of screen.

- Multitasking works great with a dual-core processor (four virtual cores with hyperthreading) and 4GB of DDR3 RAM. I routinely have 12 Firefox tabs up while watching videos in iTunes and editing four or five MS Office documents. A lot of computers don’t like this but the Q860 handles it wonderfully.

- The battery life is over three hours, which is pretty good for such a behemoth.

CONS:

- This is an extremely heavy laptop and I wouldn’t recommend it for frequent business travel. That being said, I do use this laptop for grad school and haul it back and forth to class one day a week using a Toshiba 18″ gaming backpack and it isn’t terrible on my back. I would definitely recommend a backpack if you want to carry this thing around as a normal laptop shoulder bag would probably destroy your neck and shoulder.

- Both Toshiba and Amazon claim on their websites that this keyboard is backlit but unfortunately, it isn’t. Amazon customer service handled this issue extremely well after I reported it, so I can’t complain about this too much. All X505-series keyboards are compatible so you can probably pick up a backlit one off of eBay if that’s a big deal to you.

- There is a decent amount of junkware pre-installed on this system, although not nearly as much as on the last Dell computer I bought. It’s kind of annoying that Toshiba does this on a high-performance computer that will probably be purchased by people that don’t want or need it.

OVERALL:

- I did a large amount of research before buying this laptop and as of this moment, there isn’t a better value out there in gaming laptops than this. It lacks some of the higher-end features such as dual graphics cards, a 1080p display, and solid-state drives, but for the money you can’t do better than this. I am now selling both of my desktops and I plan on making this my sole computer.
Rating: 5 / 5

-Size is AMAZING (could also be a con, due to lack of case selection available)

-Speed – The Core i5 430M (2.26) with Turbo Boost is nice, outperforms my Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4).

-RAM – 4GB DDR3 is expandable to 8GB.

-Graphics – The GeForce GTS 330M GDDR5 1GB is an excellent mobile video card.

Cons

-No restore discs shipped with the system.

-No back-lit keyboard

-No Bluetooth

-Screen is too reflective, very hard to sit on my shaded porch and see the screen.

-Touchpad seems a little choppy. But I use my A4Tech mouse 95% of the time anyway.

All non-issues to be honest, but some people might find these a problem

Other

-The glossy finish is a fingerprint magnet.

-The media keys are a little irritating, I just disabled them, no biggie.

-I did a LOT of research before I chose this. My next choice would have been an Alienware M17x, but this is a much better buy.

All in all, this is a magnificent system, Excellent cost to performance. You wont find a better gaming system at this price.
Rating: 5 / 5