The notebook material is plastic.

The screen is not bad but not the best. It gets very bright if you choose to make it that way and does not ghost much. The text is very readable and clear. There is no xbrite technology or crystal clear tech. like sony and fujitsu but still looks good none the less.

I have xga resolution because I felt for 14 inch screen sxga would be to small and unecessary.

I chose the toshiba over fujitsu for the graphics because fujitsu has integrated shiaty graphics which not matter what the screen looks like it makes the laptop suck.
I chose the toshiba over sony becuase one week before I bought toshiba I bought sony laptop and took it back!! It was the v505 series and it performed slow with shiaty 4200 rpm hard drive and sony had to much proprietary software. I couldnt even load my own windows xp pro on it!!! Called sony they told me I would have to order their version. That was last straw so I took it back and will never own sony again!!