Help finding a Laptop for $500 or less?

This has a good overall performance and is a 320 GB hard drive to ensure room for plenty of movies, music and If you're a casual gamer, this handle all light-to-moderate gaming. Add in a DVD drive and you have everything you needs.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+Satellite+C6...

Stay away from laptops with Intel Graphics, and stay away from laptops with 6 GB of RAM. In that price range you can do much better for graphics, and laptops with 6 GB of RAM are incapable of running in DDR mode (DDR mode requires matching sticks of RAM and there are no 3 GB sticks of RAM).

Try to get a laptop with an AMD A6 or A8 processor that is at least 2 GHZ. These processors adjust their speed according to your usage, which helps keep the processor cool and extend its life. Additionally these chips come with built in Radeon graphics, which is much better than Intel.

Get an HP if you can. They currently come with Beats audio, which sounds a lot better and louder than the sound that typically comes with laptops in this price range.

Under $600 for a laptop? That's an op shop buy when you don't have any money to spend on the good quality computers which don't last for a very long. Usually when those electronics go to the op shop they are often not tested so please do not waste your money on that. Can get good cheap USB sticks though for other computer. However, check the Sony website I would think that is the cheapest electronic company.

Check HP g7-1310us 17.3 inch laptop

http://www.amazon.com/HP-g7-1310us-17-3-Inch-Scree...

Specs:

- 2nd generation Intel Core i3 processor

- 6GB RAM

- 640GB hard drive

- Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

This one has 17.3 inch laptop (big screen) - great for browsing the web or watching HD movies in 1080i quality.

Check out for Acer Aspire AS7739G-6676 17.3-Inch Laptop

Intel Core i5 480M Processor 2.66GHz (3MB Cache)

4GB SDRAM RAM

500GB 5400RPM Hard Drive