which laptop to buy for personal use?

Acer Aspire is a good option

its range starts from 18,000rs to 41,000rs

the best ones come at 31-33K rs range...

Generally HP/Compaq & Dell are the most popular brands to purchase. You will want to avoid VISTA at all costs because, frankly, just about everyone hates it. XP is still available, you might have to call and ask when ordering though. For processor generally anything of the current breed is fine. Most laptops are somewhere in the 2.0-3.0Ghz range and the higher the better, but the cost will increase and you might not see much higher return. For your RAM (aka memory) I would recommend at least 1GB. It's more common and can handle just about everything. If you get Vista, try for more than that since Vista is a huge memory hog. The hard-drive doesn't need to be more than 80GB I'd say, and that's on the high side as it is. Any bigger and you're wasting money on unused space. You can get a DVD-Writer/CD-Writer combo from most anyone and they provide the software. The size of the monitor is where the prices really come into play. This is all depending on your personal taste and desires. Larger screens are good for displaying lots of data or watching movies, but obviously it makes the laptop bigger and heavier. Go to a store and look at the laptops, get a sense for what size screen works best for you since you can always adjust the resolution to grow/shrink the information on the screen.

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Hope you'll find this answer useful.

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(except TOSHIBA Satellite A355-S6925 Intel Core 2 Duo T6400(2.00GHz) 16" 4GB Memory 320GB HDD DVD Super Multi Intel GMA 4500MHD NoteBook - Retail)

I'm in canada, so i dont know the money.

My mom just got an acer notebook. it is a wide screan, 15".

she likes it. its simple. its either 400-500 dollars with everything.

Dell XPS

Newegg.com as some great laptops and great service as well.

Sony VAIO

I love my Alienware lapotp but it depends what you want to do with it.

dell xps FTW!!!