Dorene,

I'm afraid you'll have to read specs before you purchase your new 
computer. My own experience from poking around Amazon and the like is 
that the bigger the screen, the better the specs are likely to be. You 
can cut down on the browsing by searching for strings like:

17" laptop

I know I came across a lot of 15-inch laptops, but I think I also found 
a few that were a little bigger.

I think more cores are supposed to be better, but I don't know enough 
about cores to comment.

Being totally blind, my priority when shopping for a laptop was 
portability (i.e., small screen). My 10.6-inch netbooks were slow with 
Jaws. For the most part, it wasn't bad, the sort of slow you get used 
to, but really busy websites, OCR, and a few other tasks were prone to 
crashes. The 11.4-inch laptop, which is new, is better, but I haven't 
used it long enough or tried it in enough of a variety of situations to 
know what it can do when pushed.

Not very helpful I know.

Ciao


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