@Peter, with the 18.4 inch screen on the Toshiba Qosmio, its a mega machine and nothing like it around. Real power versus performance. More like a range rover sport with quad cams, 4 intake ports, you name it, Toshiba have done on it on the Qosmio. Me accelerated thots... :-)))
Now, in my warped sense of explaining computer stuff; the MBP is like a Porsche, refined, cute, head turning and quite powerful. The X500 can be compared to the BWM X Series, big, bad (in a good way) and fast. And the M11X is like.... who am i kidding, there is nothing to compare it with :-)