My local circuit city has the Toshiba A55S306 and Compaq X1360US for 1149 and 1299 after rebates with 1 year no interest. The toshiba has the 2mb cache 1.5M but only 256ram, no vid card, 40 hd and 15 inch screen, If I get the Toshiba, I plan on getting another 256 stick, so it will come around...