>>If you need to buy a PC/notebook that will be used MOSTLY to browse the web, what would you say more important: amount of RAM Memory or Speed of Intel chip? Obviously with a budget in mind I need to find the optimum combination.
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>With a budget in mind, don't forget AMD. Not sure how they fare with laptop processors, but one thing's sure: the only Intel chip in my house is a retired Celeron 400 - the rest (three active machines and one spare - no desk :) is AMD.
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>Also, don't go too cheap with the video card and the display; the speed of webpage rendering may be impeded by these. I presume any video/display combination nowadays should be more than fast enough to create no bottleneck, but not so long ago they might have.
Good point about video card. And I agree that AMD could also be a good choice. Although, for some reason, with all the computers I bought over the years (probably about 12 all together) I never bought anything but Intel. This computer I am planning to buy is for my wife, so I guess, she would beta test the AMD for our family <g>.
Thank you for your input, Dragan.
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