Laptop buying advice

[stann]

Heading in tomorrow to buy a new laptop for the Mam, probably in PC World as it's handier.
Looking for a good, cheap, easy-to-use and no frills one, purely for internet, that's still a wee bit future insured in terms of speed and capacity.
Would be most pleased if someone could give us a hint as to what kind of MHz (or GHz) and GBs I should be looking for as a minimum these days.

[DmanDmythDledge]

I was going to start the same thread. :)

I've been told to get a laptop with a dual core processor or something like that. Makes it run much faster.

[tetsujin1979]

I'm looking for a new machine myself, and I'm currently torn between these 3 laptops:
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=483916
http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/asp/versions.asp?rewrite=MSI_VR705-046UK_Laptop_VR705-046UK&pagetype=version&page=
http://packardbell.co.uk/showroom/notebooks/easynote-lj/easynote-lj61-rb-010-LX.B580X.001-1693.html
There's another version of that Packard Bell one that comes with bluetooth built in, very tempting

[stann]

Ta both, enough there to point me in the right direction, got one today. Tidy little Advent for half nothing. God they've come down in price since I got my one!

[DmanDmythDledge]

Anybody got any views on this laptop?
http://www.cdfreaks.com/hardware/product/92027-Acer-Aspire-5536-642G25MN.html

There's a free upgrade to Windows 7 if you buy in PC World.