I’ve had my Toshiba Protege M400 for a little over a week now. I’ve been using it everyday and am becoming more comfortable with it. I’m still running on 512MB ram and that’s definitely on the short side (I have another 512MB on order) but it’s not too bad.
Lots of users report that the fan goes continuously and I have to report that yes, my fan goes all the time too. It doesn’t matter what alterations I make to the profiles the problem remains. On the positive side it’s not a noisy fan like the one on my Dell Inspiron. Perhaps there will be a BIOS update that will solve this issue. I hope so.
Another common issue is that the unit goes into hibernation and freezes. Mine doesn’t freeze but what I have noticed is that you need to actually flick the power switch to bring it back to life. That’s not ideal. Hopefully that too will be addressed.
I am grumpy about the number of Toshiba utlities that are installed. I have turned off the fingerprint reader and the RAID tool because of the memory overhead. Maybe it won’t be so bad when I ghave the full gig of ram. I sincerely hope so.
Now for the positives. I love the screen. It’s 1400 X 1050 and absolutely gorgeous. I have a microfibre cloth and I polish it regularly. Photos and HD movies look fabulous.
The keyboard is comfortable to use and I haven’t found it hard to go to the smaller size. I’m loving using the pen – which is just as well as it’s a major feature of the tablet. 
The tablet’s small form factor is great. The slice expansion battery doesn’t add too much extra weight either. I’m getting around 3 hours out of the main battery at the moment – hopefully I can tweak the settings to get a tad more.
I’m pretty annoyed with Ingram Micro as my extra ram and the DVD drive are now not going to arrive until mid July. Some large order has pushed mine out of the way. While it’s not a major hassle to install from my backup removable drive, I would like to make a backup of the restore software and ghost my current setup.
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