I do have a working desktop PC but I'm looking to buy a laptop as well. At the moment one of our local stores is having a sale, and out of all the makes and models there are 3 different laptops in their catalogue that I could afford.

All run Vista, have 2GB Ram and 15.4" wide monitor screens, and I've listed them most expensive on top to cheapest on the bottom of the list. The Dell costs $50 more than the Acer, and $150 more than the Toshiba.

Dell ... 250 GB HDD, 2.0 Ghz Processor
Acer.... 250 Gb HDD, 2.0 Ghz Processor
Toshiba... 1.6 HDD, 160 Ghz Processor



All three mention Integrated Wireless, whatever that means.

Any advice please?

we have a dell and a toshiba both laptops and the toshiba is a nice PC i like the screen on the toshiba better, and having at least 2 gigs of memory is needed with vista, not sure about the acer and personally unless you play big games, like world of warcraft, those types of games, on the pc the toshiba should do you well Anne

Hey Anne~ I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop and my DS has a Dell also. I just received 2 GB's from Dell to install on mine. Don't let AMN see this; she'll tell you to get a Mac. She sleeps w/hers.


Good luck Anne~

I just bought a Dell and I really like it...this is the 2nd one I've had. I've also had two compaq's without any problems. The Dell I have now came with XP but I upgraded to Vista, if I don't like it I can go back to XP.

Hope you have good luck, I know how confusing it can get finding one you like.

That's the Dell they have advertised, so thank you for the stamp of approval for that one but I just rang the store, and they've already sold out of them. They are getting more in though.

Shhhhhh! I won't tell if you don't tell!

I'm a touchy feely type when it comes to keyboards, mouse- well most anything really .
i like to see how the keys feel, how comfortable they are & the buttons & placement of things, how it seems to be put together... sturdy or flimsy

good thing hubby passed my testing me bad...

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