OT: Need advice with Laptop
Last week our apartment was broken into and almost everything was stolen, including our only computer, a 1-year-old ASUS laptop. As you can imagine, I am very disturbed, sad, and angry. (I surprised the thieves and was thus able to keep them from finding and stealing my wife's jewelery, at least that was salvaged.)
To make a long story short, I need a new laptop, and will be willing to spend up to 1,000 Euros. May I have your advice please? I know very little about computers or computing.
I will not be willing to buy an Alienware or other high-end gaming rig. The laptops I have seen for 1000 Euros or under include a 17 inch display, 4 or 6 gig RAM, either a GeForce or ATI video card with either 500MB or 1 gig of memory, either Vista or Windows 7, some with a 32, with a 64, or both 32 and 64 operating systems, and various battery strengths. I haven't the slightest idea as to which graphic card is better, I figured "more memory" in them would be good, but does that all depend on the cooling units, the speed of the so-called FSB (is that right?), or other things I need to think about?
Ideally, I would like a machine which had the best of all these features, including battery duration length, but I am sure that is impossible. So to make my question as concrete as possible, could you please help me with the following?
- Which would be most important: larger graphic card memory, processor speed, or RAM?
- Which graphic cards should I avoid / look for?
- I don't understand the difference between 32 and 64 bit -- is that important? What should I look for?
- I have no experience with WIndows 7 -- does that mean hands off or get because I'll have to deal with it soon anyhow?
- Any concrete tips appreciated, thank you! Please, however, note that I am a windows idiot, and am generally not computer-saavy. Sorry for that.
Thank you very much in advance. Quick replies would be most welcome, I would like to purchase a new computer tomorrow evening GMT+1. Thank you.
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