By Brian Nadel Easily the best equipped tablet, the Toshiba Portege 3505, shown in Figure A, does it all with style and technological flair. With a weight of four pounds and a thickness of 1.4 inches, the Toshiba is slightly bigger and heavier than some other tablets.

Still, the Portege 3505 sets the pace for convertible tablets with its flexible design, category-leading performance, and extras such as USB 2.0 ports, as well as CompactFlash and Secure Digital slots not found on other tablets. In spite of a few first-generation snags, the Portege 3505 is ready for the rigors of business or the home. Figure A The Toshiba Portege 3505 Tablet PC is ranked 8.2 out of 10 by CNET Editors and was awarded an Editors' Choice award. The good: Great design; screen swivels and folds; fastest CPU for a tablet; largest hard drive; USB 2.0 ports. Praetorians Mod Conquerors Download here.

The bad: Big for a tablet; expensive; speaker is covered when screen is folded. Design Looking at the black Toshiba Portege 3505, your eye is immediately drawn to the silver hinge in the back, which sticks out like a big, shiny button. Like the Acer TravelMate C102TI, the Portege 3505 is a convertible tablet. The hinge allows the screen to not only open and close but rotate a full 180 degrees side to side so that it can face toward or away from you. Need a standard notebook layout with the keyboard below the screen? Want a tablet to draw or write on?

Just swivel the screen, then lay it flat (see Figure B). A small but well-designed lock keeps the screen in one position or another, so the display feels surprisingly sturdy. Figure B Here is the Portege in tablet mode. With the Portege 3505, you can scribble notes with the screen folded flat, open it up to type some details and description, then finally swivel the screen around to show a group what you've been working on. The more we used the Portege 3505, the more we grew to appreciate this flexible design. All those abilities translate, unfortunately, to a system that is large when compared with other tablets.

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At 11.6 by 9.2 by 1.4 inches, the Portege is one-third bigger than the and more in line with a standard ultraportable notebook than a tablet. It also weighs more than the Stylistic ST4000, but because it uses a tiny 7-ounce AC adapter, the total travel weight is only 4.4 pounds, half a pound less than the smaller, slower, and less capable ViewSonic V1100. Compared to other tablets, the Portege 3505 has the best place to stash the writing stylus, shown in Figure C. Its handy storage place is next to the screen—not around the system's periphery.

When you press the bottom of the pen, it pops out. Unfortunately, to keep the pen flush with the screen frame, it's flat on one side and doesn't feel as nice in your hand as a regular pen. Figure D Here are the five activity LEDs on the front edge.