Pros: Great laptop especially for those of us who want to snub Intel. The sound was was bad on my last Toshiba laptop, this one rocks. There are brands of laptops I recommend to people, Toshiba, Toshiba and Toshiba.

Cons: Would have really like 16 GB of memory.

Overall Review: I may spend the money for more ram, the laptop is worth I believe. I'm running 32 GB on my self built PC. Manufactures never put enough in laptops.

Pros: Was a good solid drive on my old motherboard. Had good speeds.

Cons: I bought a new AM3+ mother board that has only SATA 6Gb ports. The firmware on this purported 6Gb hard drive instructs you to use only SATA 3Gb for installing the firmware. That would be a good plan....except I didn't buy a M/B with 3Gb and 6Gb SATA. Why would I? This makes this very expensive drive worthless. You can and I did enable AHCI in Windows 7. I also turned on trim and disabled superfetch and prefetch.

Overall Review: My next SSD will not be a Cruical. If this unsupported drive was years old, it would be one thing. I've had it a year! Come on Crucial, get off your derrieres and write some new firmware for this drive.