For a computer that’s supposed to be “thin and light” the Toshiba U505 really isn’t. It’s thick 2.8 inches because of an enormous battery that juts out on the bottom. And it’s heavy, at 5.6 pounds. But does it perform? It does! From Christopher Null:

Fortunately all is not lost with the Satellite U505: The laptop turns
in solid benchmark scores for a 13.3-inch machine, besting most of its
similarly-sized compatriots by a (ahem) thin margin. It’s also awfully
cheap for a notebook with a 13-inch screen (resolution is 1280 x 800
pixels): $950 gets you a 400-GB hard drive, 4 GB of RAM, and a
respectable 2-GHz Core 2 Duo processor. That battery also does more
than give you a pain in the back while lugging the U505 around. It
gives over four hours of battery life with the optical drive
continuously engaged, and lasts more than half a day in ordinary heavy
use.

You want more, don’t you? Read the rest of the riveting review right here.