>>>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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>>Don't forget the HD. Probably more important than RAM (above 512MB for XP, probably 1GB for Vista).
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>>my 0.ß2 EUR
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>>thomas
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>I am surprised that you are saying that HD is more important than RAM for browsing. Is it because the pages from the web are saved on the local drive for viewing?

Yes, even with large disk cache some info will be swapped out / read again from disk and then you'll feel it. Especially with some pages loading graphics/animation in the background, somewhen the disk gets involved. On CPU I am ambivalent: for reading documents and scrolling through mostly text pages everything from an old PII should be enough. OTOH there are some sites which heave a measurable CPU load even on current cores, and if you are careless and open a couple of them in firefox tabs or independant sessions you'll tax your cpu. Try just loading anandtech for instance and watch the taskmanager. Whether you really HAVE to have many taxing sites open and heating your cpu is another discussion <bg>. Watch your own pattern and buy accordingly - the bucks spent to stroke your personal working profile are always spent wisely IMHO.

regards

thomas