"D.Duck" wrote in message
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"John H." wrote in message
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Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks. Best
Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?

Depending on what she'll use if for it may be over-kill.

Might be, but a slight over buy on new PCs is generally a good idea. They
might want to run some killer application that needs it in say a year or
two. 3GB is smart, far too many bought machines with 1G of RAM and had
major issues with Vista. Vista likes RAM, and 3GB is right for Vista 32
bit, which is what it probably has.

Also, Vista is mid-life. Coined "Win 7" is in the works to replace it. And
if they want to upgrade to this, it is likely to be larger than it's
predecessors if history repeats itself. And usually does.