The laptop arrived! The laptop arrived! I have to transfer the files and get used to a new (and mostly sucky) keyboard layout. Doh! So I've now wasted two nights trying to tranfer my files without using a hub or a switch. At first I tried a direct peer to peer connection. 'Course, after wasting the first three hours, that's when I read online that you need a Cat 5 crossover cable, not standard Cat 5 cable. Tonight's folly was trying to get a modem to modem connection working. This time it was XP cooperating. WinME was not so nice about this. I decided to give up early, since apparently switchs and cable are not as expensive as I first thought they were. The keyboard layout, however, is a much more difficult problem. It turns out that Toshiba apparently has never seen a standard 105 key keyboard before. And apparently those Japanese have tiny fingers. Not only are the home/PgUp/Pg/Dn/End buttons stacked on the side in an unusual (and mostly useless) configuration. The Ins/Del keys have been moved to the bottom of the keyboard, where they are completely impossible to use. Not to mention the ~ key being moved to where the left Alt button usually is. The left Alt button, of course, now taking the Windows Key slot. And the WIndows Key being moved to the top right, where nobody will find it. But this arrangement surely must be for a reason! Right? Well, if you call compressing the buttons so that they are thinner and harder to type with a reason, then it's a very successful arrangement. if you call complete ergonomic failure a reason, then this layout has it in spades. And the touchpad is a good 10-20% smaller then the one on the HP n5420L I'm replacing. Which is funny, as the HP is a smaller more compact machine. All to give the machine a nice symmetry as well as a lovely unbroken plastic trim on top of the keyboard. That useless wasted space plastic trim. All while I mash my oversize fingers on the half size Delete key. Form over function, meet your latest pupil: Satellite 5205-S505. Note to self: Next time looking at laptops, skip Toshibas.