I got/and use a used netbook off Amazon. I think I paid $100 for it? I can type like a fucking warlock, and my USB mouse lets me point at shit and stuff.TennPaGa wrote: My wife would like to have a low-capability laptop on which she can do word processing and a little bit of internet surfing. This would be a secondary machine in our household.
She doesn't really like tablet computers, she wants a real keyboard.
However, the sales dude at a Best Buy was trying to steer her toward a refurbished Toshiba Satellite ($429 for the refurb'ed version; originally $650+), because he thought the RAM (2 GB), and storage (32 GB) on the Stream were a bit low.
Any recommendations on things to consider? Recommendations for machines? Brand? New? Used? Refurbished?
It also had like EDIT: 150 GB of memory.
Admittedly, I still have a strip of duct tape over the camera thing on my USED COMPUTER, since I can't be sure there isn't some type of worm that would let a guilty party watch me through that digital eye.As most of us here do for most purchases, I'm looking for an appropriate balance between quality and price. I must confess that I don't have a good feel for where that should be in a limited-capability machine, though. Should we make sure that we get a machine that can handle system upgrades? Or should we not care?
Finally, I would say that we're not really gadget people or computer people.