Okay, so this is something of a rant, but given my experiences with the laptop, how can I not? Backstory: Corporate IT maintains a list of acceptable portables, all of which are made by Toshiba. After looking over the list, it looked like the best choice was the Portege R830. It had the best possible CPU and it wasn't a giant clunker that looked my back-in-the-day 15 pound Inspiron 7000. As a bonus, it was available with a reasonably priced docking station. My first conception that something was wrong when, after first boot, I checked free memory. Physically, 4GB is installed, but windows says that only 2.7GB is available. The Intel HD3000 video setup is eating the rest (1.3GB!). Okay, no big deal. I can reboot and change that in the BIOS. Oops. No option. Well, maybe it's just some old drivers. Nope. Drivers are latest from Toshiba. They're not particularly new, so maybe the generic Intel ones will fix it. Damn! Toshiba has crippled the video so that it