Toshiba 15.6" Pentium B960 2.20GHz Laptop | C655-S5514

Bought one of these for my mother-in-law (BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU GIVE TO YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW! HA!) in basically the same configuration. Her's was the C655-S5512 model and the only difference was a 320 GB hard drive, instead of the 640. Everything else was the same (processor, RAM, webcam, Win 7, Microsoft Starter.) Sorry Amazon, I bought it at the blue box store, but let's talk about THE COMPUTER.

Great little rig! Initialized and went through Win 7 startup with all the normal options and settings, jumped right in to wireless A-OK, registration, Norton, & Microsoft Starter. Unless you're a major presentation-constructor type, the included MS Starter works great, and has most all of the features for Word and Excel, more than plenty for my M-I-L. :) Battery life a little over 4 hours, (average for a new 6-cell,) and the numeric keypad in a 15.6" format is nice for the "number-crunchers."

Bought her a wireless mouse to solve the touch-pad aggravation many write of, but it's about like average and can be adjusted for sensitivity. Keyboard action is excellent, screen display is FAN-TASTIC, the case design doesn't "collect" fingerprints, and it DOES NOT get hot. This processor is FAST! (2.20GHz) and considering this price break with the 640 GB hard drive, this model is a very good buy. If my current laptop ever goes down, I'm buying a Toshiba like this!

I helped her set it all up and it's a SNAP! Lightweight, (she "packed it right up" into the shoulder bag,) fast, great speakers, good-looking, everything you'd want to give your mother-in-law, or anyone else. And remember, it's not nice to "fool" with your mother-in-law... :) Great computer, great buy, next time, Amazon, next time...

Oh, by-the-way, did I mention... SHE LOVES IT!!! :)

Computer runs fine easy to set up out of the box....but it has a cheap flimsy case not near as sturdy as my last Toshiba which lasted 6 years till the motherboard shorted out. Computer is only 6 months old and screen hinge pops when you open it , will probably break any-day now.

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The computer came packaged safely and secure. As soon as I turned it on and started loading my software. The computer is awesome and I should have gotten one long ago!

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