Toshiba FOR Satellite T135

Excellent battery life ; Thin and lightweight ; Solid keyboard

Torx screws on the hard drive ; Super glossy plastics

Better-than-Netbook performance and a 13-inch screen for only $599; lightweight chassis.

Weak speakers; keyboard and touch pad get hot during prolonged use; dual-core AMD Neo processor doesn't provide any step up from the Intel processors in previous versions.

Toshiba's lightweight and affordable thin-and-light T135 series shaves another hundred off its price by switching to an AMD Neo processor in the T135D-S1324, while offering only slightly diminished performance.

Affordable thin-and-light; strong battery life.

Tinny speakers; no Bluetooth.

For a budget Windows 7 thin-and-light that won't need to recharge often, you could do a lot worse than the Toshiba Satellite T135-S1309.