I am trying to convince my mom to let me get a laptop, but I need some suggestions first.
I would be using the laptop for iTunes, my pictures, and Internet Explorer.
A Mac is a bit expensive, so I was leaning more on the less fancier ones.
Thank you:)

I recently bought an M-1617 gateway laptop and I thought I wouldn’t have any problems with it, unfortunately I cannot seem to open some programs such as Windows movie maker and even some games because of a video card incompatibility. Does anyone know what kind of video card I should get for this and how exactly do i install this?
I would really appreciate your help! Ü

For an apple macbook, do you need to use apple’s ram, or can it just be any laptop ram?

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I’m looking into getting a netbook but don’t really know much about them and was looking for advice on a nice one to buy. I would mainly use it for downloading music and videos (using utorrent/are netbooks powerful enough for this?), internet surfing and email. Any advice on netbooks excellent for these uses would be much appreciated.