I need to know something about computers

Question

because I am basically and illiterate when buying one hehe I had  a Satellite that had 256 MB and 40 Gb with 260 GHZ Celeron and found it a bit slow at times but it was sufficient now that it met with cake and icecream crammed into the keyboard I have to go get another one. I do online texting and basically have 4 or 5 pages open at once and I use skype. i have all my pics and music on an external drive. i use cricket wireless internet. what i need to know is what is more important for me to look at the whole 256 mb or the 40 gb or the ghz thing? also heard skype and toshiba dont work well but i just use it for ims not the whole phone thing. anyone someone help me please

Answer 1

They are all important in some way. The faster the CPU (the 260Mhz Celeron)is the more it can do in a short time. The more RAM you have the more smoothly your system will run when using multiple applications. The hard drive size is usually dependant on what you want to do and what you plan on installing. But given the fact you said your music and pics were stored on a external HD would at least lower the priority of a large hard drive. A netbook or lowend laptop would do you just fine. I would go with what ever gives you the best processor and largest amount of ram that is within your price range.