Replace a SLOW toshiba chromebook

smallzoo · 3 Jun 2020 at 19:42

My wife will not be working from home. She has a Toshiba CB30-B-104 which we inherited but its soooo slow !

So..in the ideal world she wants a laptop or tablet which is light and under £400

All she will be doing is Web browsing, Office 365, Facebook, Skype etc

She has problems with her wrists so it need to be light and the reason she has though about say an Ipad pro is that she can pick it up and browse in bed...

One other priority is the brightness. The chromebook is just about ok but it will have to be at leats as good

Happy to look at refurbished , 2nd hand

any advice ?

smallzoo · 3 Jun 2020 at 21:35

I should qualify office 365 sorry... she only uses Outlook to read and write emails..

Mr Blobby · 4 Jun 2020 at 14:04

You can get hold of refurbished good condition Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon's for around that price, just make sure to get one that specifies an IPS screen, I think some of the early models came with a TN panel as the default screen.

smallzoo · 4 Jun 2020 at 14:52

thanks but im really struggling to find that model even refurbished anywhere under £600

Mr Blobby · 4 Jun 2020 at 15:23

smallzoo said:
thanks but im really struggling to find that model even refurbished anywhere under £600

Have you tried eBay? There are many sellers who offer refurbished business laptops like the X1 Carbon on there, with positive feedback and often with a warranty

freddie64 · 5 Jun 2020 at 11:50

Factory reset or powerwash may speed it up.

https://www.howtogeek.com/358868/how-to-speed-up-your-chromebook/ Scroll to near bottom of page.

foster grant · 5 Jun 2020 at 11:54

As its so slow cant you sling an SSD in it ?

I did this last week to a really really slow laptop that couldnt even run two things at once and with the SSD in it its way faster .

freddie64 · 5 Jun 2020 at 13:28

foster grant said:
As its so slow cant you sling an SSD in it ?

I did this last week to a really really slow laptop that couldnt even run two things at once and with the SSD in it its way faster .

Looking online, it has a SSD already. Only 16GB though.

foster grant · 5 Jun 2020 at 14:40

can you not do a disk cleanup on those chromebooks or something like that ?