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JPSmit

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Laptop died this week - 6 years old and a hard life, I can't complain.

Anyway, am currently looking at a new one and hope to replace as soon as tonight. There seem to be good deals now on Lenovo (old IBM) under $400.

Here is my question

RAM vs Processor speed. It seems I can get 1.6 gig processor speed and 4 gig RAM or I can get 2 gig RAM and 2.2 processor speed - thoughts?

Also, any thoughts about buying refurbished? Warranty is the same - legit dealer?

any advice welcome!
 
I might go for the faster processor speed... RAM is relatively cheap and you can easily add RAM.
Last week I just replaced some RAM in my OLD laptop and it is lots faster that before.
 
Ditto. I have a friend who's sort of a computer geek, and he swears by Lenovo.
 
Thanks for the help - got a pretty good deal on a Lenovo - 1.65 ghz and 6 gig RAM - plenty fast so far. (with nothing on it :smile:
 
Gliderman8 said:
I might go for the faster processor speed... RAM is relatively cheap and you can easily add RAM.
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Yup!! I agree.
 
JPSmit said:
Laptop died this week - 6 years old and a hard life, I can't complain.

Anyway, am currently looking at a new one and hope to replace as soon as tonight. There seem to be good deals now on Lenovo (old IBM) under $400.

Here is my question

RAM vs Processor speed. It seems I can get 1.6 gig processor speed and 4 gig RAM or I can get 2 gig RAM and 2.2 processor speed - thoughts?

Also, any thoughts about buying refurbished? Warranty is the same - legit dealer?

any advice welcome!
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Hi JP - first thing: what do you plan to use the computer for?

Breakfast table web browsing?

Photo/video/audio editing?

Home office?

Heavy duty gaming?

etc.

I keep running in to people who buy a new 'puter, then realize it can't do what they want.

Tom
 
Hi JP - first thing: what do you plan to use the computer for?

Breakfast web bowsing

Home office?



etc.

I keep running in to people who buy a new 'puter, then realize it can't do what they want.

Tom


Good point - basically word processing, internet and power point - the new one should be fine.
 
"Good point - basically word processing, internet and power point - the new one should be fine."

Great. That 1.6g cpu and 6g ram will be plenty. Unless you're doing heavy duty number crunching and/or video processing, the value of ram outweighs the cpu.

If you haven't taken a look at them, OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) are two really fine office suites, available for free download. Both include writing, presentation, spreadsheet, etc. I've been using them for over five years, on Windows and Linux machines.

Edit: OpenOffice and LibreOffice are MS Office Suite compatible.

Congrats!

Tom
 
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