@buenchico

[dickythecook]

I am looking for a fairly basic laptop for my cousin. She has a very old laptop (acer) with win XP. She is not really computer savvy, but she is learning and rather fancies a toshiba C855. I think this would be good for her and will service her computer requirements for a few years. Windows 8 is totally beyond her. Sound is not important as she is 90% deaf. Do you have any recommendations? I would appreciate your input.

[Buenchico]

Hi Dicky

The Toshiba C855 has rather varied online reviews but it generally meets with most people's approval. However there are cheaper options available which are at least as good, as I suggested earlier this evening:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1208032.html

Chris

[dickythecook]

Sorry Chris posted my thanks on the wrong thread. I have passed that on for her approval ,or no, as the case may be.

[dickythecook]

B, she ended up wanting the purple C855 Tosh solitaire which I reserve for her at her local Arg*s. £299 with winds 7. Good deal I thought, went to pick it up, at the checkout she was asked for £399, showed the print out of the reservation, £100 knocked off! Opened up the comp back at her house and it was full of winds 8. She asked if we should take it back, I said that she might learn to live with it. What would you do? ;-)