I'm helping a friend's dad buy a laptop for my friend (it's a surprise), and his dad is willing to spend around $3600 (if I only had that kind of money to spend
). He went to powernotebooks.com and found a huge laptop (it kind of looks like the alienware laptop) with a pentium 4 2.4Ghz processor, 1 gig of RAM, ATI Radeon 9000, etc. etc.. In other words, the works. My question is for $3600 what would you guys recommend? The biggest problem I see with this laptop is the size and weight. I know my friend would want something that is easy to manage and she's pretty small, so the lighter the better. So what do you guys thihnk? Is there a laptop with the perfect balance of size and speed? I would say size is more important because I don't think she will do much on her computer besides instant messenger, word, excel, and internet explorer. Maybe a game here and there, but nothing that is going to make the system work very hard. Thanks for the help.
