What Kind of Laptop is Right for Me?

What Kind of Laptop is Right for Me?

Many people think they need a brand new laptop and want to purchase the latest and greatest.

In most cases a refurbished laptop is more than adequate, unless your are a gamer or power

user. Your connection speed matters more than the CPU or the amount of RAM. Read on to

learn more.

When considering buying a used laptop, the first thing to do is to determine what you want to

use the laptop for?

1.word processing

Requires minimal CPU, since you cannot type faster than a very old Pentium 90.

2.e-mail

Requires a minimal CPU, minimal RAM and the connection speed does not matter, unless you

are sending or receiving very large files (photos).

3.chat

This depends upon which chat program you plan on using. AOL AIM: P2 200 MHz,128MB

RAM, 20MB HD space, XP or 2K Direct X9; MSN Live Messenger: P2 233 MHz, XP or Vista,

50MB HD, 800×600; Google Talk: Vista/XP/2000; Yahoo! Messenger v8: Win 98 or later, 233

MHz, 128MB, 30MB, Windows Media Player 7 or later, Direct X. You need to look carefully at

your IM program to figure out exactly what is needed.

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