I have had the NB205 frost white version (the $399 price) for about a week.
Good points:
1) build quality seems high compared to other netbooks that I looked at.
2) keyboard and touchpad are very usable.
3) the NB205 looks great (my opinion).
4) screen is bright and usable outdoors. There is a glossy finish but compared to glossy notebooks that I have, the NB205 seems better.
5) Battery life seems to be good. Using full power and bright screen, the batter lasts over 6 hours. With battery saving features enabled, would last longer.
Bad points:
1) Speaker is terrible. I use earbuds which work fine.
2) Many special Toshiba programs used to control hardware and do different system tasks. This only a bad point if you are thinking of upgrading to Windows 7 because it may make the upgrade harder (are there Windows 7 versions available of these programs, etc.).
I upgraded the memory to 2GB. This did not seem to make a significant difference in performance. Perhaps someone who runs more demanding programs might have a different result.
Overall, I am very satisfied with the unit but one must keep in mind there are limitations when using netbooks.Get more detail about Toshiba Mini NB205-N312/BL 10.1-Inch Royal Blue Netbook - 9 Hour Battery Life.
