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Old 02-01-2010, 12:23 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
My mother needs a laptop for a few weeks. She can't use the computers at work until she gets her security clearance. (If I explained the details behind this, your head would hurt.) The OS would need to be Windows (so I don't have to provide Linux tech support). Email and web browsing is all it has to do. I'm looking at this one as my current top choice:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...X0DER&v=glance

P.S. I looked at BestBuy and Costco and they didn't have the best prices.
For the buck, you usually get a pretty good bang out of Acers. When helping my sister pick a few months ago, I came down to a pretty similar one. The one you linked is closer to my personal preferences, if she wants a bigger one they have a decent deal on newegg here.
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