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what kind of laptop do I need? someone make a suggestion!?

am in the market to buy a new laptop. I need some assistance in choosing one however and need anyone that has good advice to give me some to point me in the right direction. Here is what I need in a laptop. It will be used for writing so I need a writing program such as Word or works, I will save all my work to a flash drive. I would like to have a media reader but it's not a neccessity since I know you can buy those extra. DVD/CD burner is nice but again a luxury item but still nice. nice size screen is good, plenty of hand room to lay my hands for resting for keyboard use since I will be using it for writing. I will be using it wireless some so battery life is important and I will be doing some EBAY work on it so that is important as well. other than that, I will probably not be doing a lot of web surfing on the computer, other than ebay work related. Most have pointed out to me that the Dual core processor is what I should go with but it does cost and my budget is limited. i have approx. $700 to $800 to spend on a laptop so stepping down from the dual core may have to be a option but which one to chose if I have to do that, if anyone wants to make me a recommendation by name, brand, model number etc, point one out and say that's the one, that's a great computer, it has great speed, great battery life, good ram, good harddrive, etc, then please, I have poured over sale paper after sale paper until I'm sick of comparing laptops side by side. I basically need someone to point me to what i need to best look at in a laptop. right now they are all running together. I don't want to make a expensive mistake today that I will regret tomorrow. so if anyone has some ideas? I'm all ears. Acer? Toshiba? HP? compaq? I have seen the Celeron M processors, I have seen the Intel centrino, I have seen the sempron? someone please point me to one and lead me in the right direction. THANK YOU! I have had so many steer me away from dell, HP stands out, but which one. I need someone to just tell me which model specifically I should go for, they are all starting to run together after looking at them for so long. Plus I don't know if i need the Dual core processor or if the other processors will do just fine for my needs. Any suggestions?

Public Comments

1. Dell has a lot of choices or the Mac Book
2. Go with the HP nc6400 Windows XP Professional Edition Duo T2400 1.83GHz Processor 60GB 2GB DVD-CDRW Drive 14WXGA Integrated Wireless Internet Bluetooth Enabled Notebook that you can get at www.stupidcheapcomputers.net for less than $1,400.