I bought a Toshiba Satellite 5205-s705 a few days ago...
it's fast and smoothe and gives my desktop monitor a run for it's money (my desktop monitor is a Viewsonic PF720)
here is a link to my system specs I had to mirror it on to my web site, however, clicking any link takes you back into the Toshiba Web Site
http://www.nightsoftware.com/effhq/Toshiba_Portables__Satellite_5205.htmthe only thing I have done to this machine , except for software, is that I added 512 MB DDR PC 2100 to it bringing it to a total of 1 GIG RAM
the rest of the description is exactly my machine, TV Tuner card included and Remote, with Windows XP Media Center Edition (PC Custom Built around software according to Microsoft.. also MCE is built on XP Pro)...
Just currious as to your thoughts on it...
Haven't tried Seti in a long time, so I don't know how good it would do on that...