Monica,
All I can say is I'm very satisfied with the refurbished Dell Latitude I 
bought a year ago off of ebay. It's a 2GHZ Dual Core Intel processor with 
2GB of RAM and it is very fast and reliable and It does not run hot. It's 
probably like 4-6 years old but, was an expensive top of the line in it's 
day and had every option I can think of : wireless, Network card, modem, 
DVDRW etc. The Hard drive is kind of small at 60GB but, I use a 500GB 
external HD to store all my back up stuff. The ebay vender I purchased it 
from was www.csrtechnologies.net and I would do business with them again 
because, I only have $300.00 invested in this laptop I consider it a throw 
away and it has not let me down. If you're in the market for new $$ I'd 
recommend DELL from my experience with this one. The only bad experience 
I've had was a virus and not the laptops fault at all but once cured it runs 
as good as ever.
Gregg

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From: "Monica" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:30 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] 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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