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Hi. I wanted to know what laptop do you recommend for basic instant messenging? I have Blackberry 7290 and needed to type fast to decrease time typing (thumb-typing is very ackward for me), plus, a battery will have to be long for me to use instant messenging in my laptop, which Core 2 Duo would be a good option than AMD Turion but I'm not an Intel fanboy since I wish AMD would've competed with Intel for energy/heat consumption...
I preferred Windows (I'll reinstall Windows down to a bare minimum for trouble-free performance increase from pre-installed applications...) because I wanted to be able to use ZoomText due to my visual impairement. 14.1" or 12" is okay but I'd rather go with 10" because I wanted the laptop to be small and thin, but a good-sized keyboard are suitable for me to type fast.
With the kind of laptop, I'd be using it only for instant messenging with a connection to BlackBerry 7290 and not for classroom or watching movies since I can carry my 15" widescreen laptop (heavy but carriable) to a car and to school. I'd be carrying a 10" laptop to vocation places like Walt Disney World and travel to other places.
512MB of DDR2 Memory, 40GB Hard Drive, Core 2 Duo with Centrino, and good graphics capability should suffice, but I'm not all that for processing speed, memory speed, and 3D graphics capabilities (but I'd laugh at Intel Graphics Media Accelerator...heh heh). However, AMD's HyperTransport Technology is a very good one for memory to communicate to CPU at a speed of CPU, but again, not in for CPU speed.
I preferred Windows (I'll reinstall Windows down to a bare minimum for trouble-free performance increase from pre-installed applications...) because I wanted to be able to use ZoomText due to my visual impairement. 14.1" or 12" is okay but I'd rather go with 10" because I wanted the laptop to be small and thin, but a good-sized keyboard are suitable for me to type fast.
With the kind of laptop, I'd be using it only for instant messenging with a connection to BlackBerry 7290 and not for classroom or watching movies since I can carry my 15" widescreen laptop (heavy but carriable) to a car and to school. I'd be carrying a 10" laptop to vocation places like Walt Disney World and travel to other places.
512MB of DDR2 Memory, 40GB Hard Drive, Core 2 Duo with Centrino, and good graphics capability should suffice, but I'm not all that for processing speed, memory speed, and 3D graphics capabilities (but I'd laugh at Intel Graphics Media Accelerator...heh heh). However, AMD's HyperTransport Technology is a very good one for memory to communicate to CPU at a speed of CPU, but again, not in for CPU speed.