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Originally Posted by chrisinva
Ineed new laptop & I'm not tech savvy. Please recommend something: I need a laptop to run WORD, & EXCEL. I surf the web & shop online. I use hotmail/outlook. I save lots of pictures (.pdf, .tiff. jng) from my iphone to my laptop. Currently I have used 100 GB of my 225 GB Dell laptop that we got 5 yrs ago. I don't do any gaming & don't want to. Weight is important, current laptop weighs 2.2 lbs.; I'm willing to go to 3 lbs. Backlighting is VERY important. Battery life not so important. Chromebooks look interesting but I tried a MAC years ago & could never adjust to it so went back to WINDOWS. Thanks for any recommendations.
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To decrease the weight, get one with a solid-state drive (SSD). You will want at least a 500 MB SSD. RAM memory is more important than speed of the CPU so get at least 16 MB of RAM. There will be great deals on Black Friday - Best Buy, Walmart, Sam's, Dell, will all have excellent deals. Also, I would plan on buying 2 anti-virus programs - example, Norton and MalwareBytes for internet protection - be safe out there!