SURVEY Screen ok; shiny surface so usual reflections etc. Regret I am a two fingered typist but my 16 year old granddaughter is very speedy touchtyping on hers. I do not much of use the pre loaded stuff. I use (Free) Avira anti virus, Superantispyware, Malawarebytes as malware scanners, Spywareblaster as malware blocker. I was using PCTools as firewall on all machines but a new version would not install on my desktop so am now using the Windows one - no problems. I actually nave not bothered to delete McAfee but have disabled it. I use Acronis True Image to make images to an external HD, as I am more used to it than the W7 backup version. All my data has been moved to the data drive (mine is called F:) and I have grouped it as in the XP form - ie My Documents with sub folders for My Pictures etc. I then run Freefilesynch or Synchtoy to make frequnt mirror images of data to a portable USB HD (quicker than ATI. Re Wi fi. I get an "excellent" sigal from a Belkin Share 300 router sited upstairs when laptop is downstairs in a small sitting room - my house is strongly built with soild partition walls.I did get help with the re partitioning due to the complication of the hidden recovery one. Re touchpad, my wife and granddaughter like it, but I have never liked thn on any machine so always use a mouse- photo editing etc using Photoshop. Why not try one at John Lewis if you are near a store? Good luck!!

I have a TOSHIBA L500-19Z got rid of all stuff did not want, loaded MSE Security works a treat with 4GB RAM starts up quick kept Tempro etc. good machine