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Is this Toshiba a 'good' buy?

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daska
daska Posts: 6,212 Forumite
Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
Toshiba Satellite C660-125 15.6 inch Notebook (Intel Celeron T3500 Processor, 3GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium)

I have the opportunity to buy this for £299 cos I clicked at the right time LOL. But I'm very out of touch with what's what nowadays and I've had a very long, tiring day and my brain isn't functioning and I can't seem to find any reviews.

I need something that will run Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus and cope with manipulating largish Word documents with several images. (It might need to run Adobe Creative suite at some point in the future but I'm hoping that there'll be a MAC along sometime before that.)

On top of that it's just web browsing, facebook, youtube etc.

I have an existing iiyama screen with inbuilt speakers and a basic USB keyboard/mouse etc which I assume will work with it (?) to make it more practical when it's not being lugged around. Strictly speaking I don't think a laptop is a necessity, but if this is similar in price to the equivalent desktop then I don't mind.

Please let me know what you think.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants - Michael Pollan
48 down, 22 to go
Low carb, low oxalate Primal + dairy
From size 24 to 16 and now stuck...

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  • daska
    daska Posts: 6,212 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Thank you for the link, unfortunately I'm so tired that the details are literally coming in and out of focus, I'm only managing the keyboard because I can touchtype. I've just been asked whether it's 32 or 64 bit? Haven't a clue, have you?

    Feeling relieved that I bought a 64 bit compatible printer just in case.
    Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants - Michael Pollan
    48 down, 22 to go
    Low carb, low oxalate Primal + dairy
    From size 24 to 16 and now stuck...
  • spakkker
    spakkker Posts: 1,322 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit (pre-installed, Toshiba-HDD recovery)
    Says this in key features 1st para.before celeron T3500
  • we got a dell middle of year with less memory 160GB for about the same money delivered. The tosh is better make.
    Ps just looked at link and price back up to £399 so fab deal..................... Hope you took it
  • daska
    daska Posts: 6,212 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Double thanks!!

    I must have tried to read it 6 times before I gave up, just didn't see it. I'm going to copy it into a Word document and make it easier to read, there isn't enough definition in grey on white.
    Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants - Michael Pollan
    48 down, 22 to go
    Low carb, low oxalate Primal + dairy
    From size 24 to 16 and now stuck...
  • daska
    daska Posts: 6,212 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    No negative comments in 90 minutes on this board probably means it's a good deal LOL so I went for it! It's to replace my 7 yr old Medion Media PC which died a couple of months ago, I'm guessing it can't be any slower and that one was plenty fast enough. It's certainly going to be an improvement on the one I borrowed to tide me over.

    Thank you spakker and oxfordt for reassuring me.
    Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants - Michael Pollan
    48 down, 22 to go
    Low carb, low oxalate Primal + dairy
    From size 24 to 16 and now stuck...
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