Audio Quality on Satellite C55-A-1AU

HI,
I am considering purchasing a Toshiba C55 model laptop, C55-A-1AU to be precise.
However I head a little read of the reviews and one or two people were unsatisfied with the audio quality of the machine.
I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with the C55 series and can comment on the audio quality and speaker quality of these laptops.
How are they for watching a move, or listening to music?
Do they produce clear non distorted audio?
are they loud enough (bearing in mind that I wear a hearing aid because I have terrible hearing.)
I have a Toshiba laptop at the moment, I've had it for nearly six years and feel it may be time for an upgrade.
My current model is a P300-16T and has served me very well.
I would appreciate any advice and answers to the questions I have asked, thank you for reading and for any help provided.

I've been looking around on websites for days at different Toshiba models and it seems that most of them, even the ones on Toshiba's own website have these same or similar speakers in them, its like their not even trying to provide premium quality machines anymore.
I've always used Toshiba laptops and have my heart set on a new model, I know that the speakers they are installing are unlikely to sound as good as the ones in my P300 but I would like them to at least sound good enough for some music and maybe YouTube and a few videos.
The only speakers on the advertised models that seem to come close to premium quality show that they have installed Onkyo speakers, there seem to be no more Harman/Kardon models around (I'm in the UK if it helps.)
It feels a bit distressing because audio is somewhat important to me, everything else is secondary.
As I mentioned I've had my heart set on Toshiba, really don't want to have to go down the Aple route at this point.

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Toshiba Satellite C55-A5180 part number PSCJEU-00F001
Drivers needed to install Windows 7 64 Bit on Satellite C55-A5180 part number PSCJEU-00F001
Edited to add new location for the video driver
Drivers where downloaded from here http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome?freeText=1200008363
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