new laptop

Mine's a reconditioned laptop I bought on Ebay about 5 years ago. It's a bit risky, though I've been lucky.

Mine's an Acer from Argos. No problems in four years - yet!

I have had a Toshiba laptop for a couple of months now and it been fine and wasnt that expensive.

The one that just died was a Toshiba and it lasted well.any idea if a 4GB memory will be big enough or do we need bigger?

Mine is just 4, but I didnt need anything bigger. I have not found that to be a problem yet.

seasider it depend what you need the laptop for.

Mine's only 3GB, but as I don't need a great storage capacity it's fine.

Hi Glass we just use it for internet browsing,photos and general household stuff.

Had look today and the cheaper models are all 4GB. Most of them use Windows 8 but people have said it is hard to use

Windows 8 can be set up to look like its predecessors - you do not have to have the "charms." (coloured rectangular options boxes on the desk top).

However, I understand that it is going to be superseded by something that will be called Windows 9 but bears a remarkable resemblance to W7, as so many people hate W8.

Yes, I'd heard they were quietly discontinuing Windows 8 as well...