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Hey computer guys, I need help with lap top purchase.
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<blockquote data-quote="NikatKimber" data-source="post: 1664582" data-attributes="member: 423"><p>I will kind of agree with the Doc above me. </p><p></p><p>The super cheap (sub-$300) computers that are being listed are glorified netbooks with big screens. For anything more than checking email and basic web browsing they would get very frustrating. My F-i-L has one of the $329 Toshiba laptops with the Celeron processor and 3gb of ram; it works for him, but all he does is email, web browsing, Word documents, and the occasional PowerPoint.</p><p></p><p>That said, my wife has a Toshiba with the i3 that we bought last year and is still running great. It does have 4gb of ram. I would say that is a bigger deal than the processor. She does photo editing in addition to other basic computing tasks. IMO, the i3 will still be plenty of horsepower for quite a while. I am currently shopping for a replacement for a 4 year old Toshiba that had the AMD Athlon dual core and 2gb of ram, but was still enough for what I did with it; and I consider relatively tech savvy. </p><p></p><p>HOWEVER, if your son is wanting to mix music on it, he will want at the <strong>bare minimum</strong> the i3, and 4gb of ram. I don't know how processor intensive music mixing is, but I *would* recommend the i5 based on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NikatKimber, post: 1664582, member: 423"] I will kind of agree with the Doc above me. The super cheap (sub-$300) computers that are being listed are glorified netbooks with big screens. For anything more than checking email and basic web browsing they would get very frustrating. My F-i-L has one of the $329 Toshiba laptops with the Celeron processor and 3gb of ram; it works for him, but all he does is email, web browsing, Word documents, and the occasional PowerPoint. That said, my wife has a Toshiba with the i3 that we bought last year and is still running great. It does have 4gb of ram. I would say that is a bigger deal than the processor. She does photo editing in addition to other basic computing tasks. IMO, the i3 will still be plenty of horsepower for quite a while. I am currently shopping for a replacement for a 4 year old Toshiba that had the AMD Athlon dual core and 2gb of ram, but was still enough for what I did with it; and I consider relatively tech savvy. HOWEVER, if your son is wanting to mix music on it, he will want at the [B]bare minimum[/B] the i3, and 4gb of ram. I don't know how processor intensive music mixing is, but I *would* recommend the i5 based on that. [/QUOTE]
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