Laptop Question

[tiap]

If at all possible go for the ibm centrino, you can add ram later. Quality reliability and support are well worth it.

 

[smartsam]

Though the decreased performance will probably not affect your mom's usage, the lower battery life of the Celeron M might be a sticking point. Tom's Hardware did a review with a 1.4 P-M and a 1.3 Celeron M and the Pentium had an hour more battery life in the same notebook (see this for a more in-depth analysis).