Rather than specific models, perhaps some suggestions as to what to look for
in the hardware. I would recommend looking for 4GB of RAM and an i5
processor. Others like AMD, but I tend to favor Intel for portable
applications. My daughter is in college and told me that other students seem
to have more problems with HP laptops. Of course, her friend has an HP that
is many years old and has no problems! We bought our daughter a new Sony
Vaio, but they are much higher priced than what you are looking for.

I have seen some good deals come up at Best Buy, Buy.com, and Newegg.com.
When I was looking for the laptop for my daughter, this list mentioned good
luck with Dell models.

Hope this is of some help. Good luck.

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
From: Monica [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 11:30 PM
Subject: New Laptop

I don't know if this is an appropriate question for this forum but here is  
my question:
I am wanting to buy a new laptop. Our old one is 10 years old and is quite  
slow.  In speaking with various IT techs at the store I get conflicting  
information on which is a better laptop.  Each laptop seems to have pros
and 
cons and I'm just trying to avoid the ones with the most cons.  Is  Intel or

AMD better? (I was told AMD but then someone else said the  laptops get too 
hot - they're only better for desktops) Toshiba, Asus, HP,  Dell???  I'd 
like to keep the cost between 3 & $400.00.  Any help  would be appreciated.
Monica

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