Editors' rating: 7.9, very good

The good: Extremely thin and light; excellent battery life; includes optical drive.

The bad: No mobile broadband; optional solid state hard drive drives up price; limited configuration options.

The bottom line: Toshiba's much-anticipated Portege R500 may be the best ultraportable laptop available right now, but mobile broadband is conspicuously absent.

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Creative Zen Stone Plus (2GB)

Creative has a penchant for offering a wide array of choices for the MP3 player consumer, so it comes as little surprise that the company decided to add a screen and some extra features to the ultra-basic Zen Stone.

Editors' rating: 7.0, very good

The good: The Creative Zen Stone Plus comes in a choice of six colors and offers 2GB of storage for less than $70. It includes some handy extras, such as an FM tuner, a stopwatch and a voice recorder. The player also has good sound quality.

The bad: The Zen Stone Plus interface is not totally intuitive, and the screen is too small to display full track info. It also doesn't offer full ID3 tag sorting for music, and the rated battery life is unimpressive.

The bottom line: For those who want a super small and cute MP3 player that offers more than just simple music playback, the Creative Zen Stone Plus fits the bill nicely.

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