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Default Need Laptop for my mom.

Please advise. Just for home use. Surfing web and basic stuff. Nothing expensive but not cheap.

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115473
Damn good deal for the price.
Or any recertified laptops ~500 with 2gb ram
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Here's what I was looking at; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834117724
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I would go to Office Depot and get a $400 laptop. They usually have sales on them everyother week. Get one with a low end dual core, 1GB of RAM, 15in screen.
THen get 2GB of ram from newegg. You will then have 2GB and 512MB, 2.5GB, which will make the computer seem fast to the average user.

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I just noticed there is a laptop section. Oops. How do you install RAM? If I recall, RAM is touchy. If you touch it the wrong way, it's useless.

I believe I'm going to do what Mortimer said.
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