I buy and maintain numerous laptops for friends and family. I quite like the HP G6 ... you have to be careful though because there are a million variations - we go for ones in the 2000 series. They are quite easy to work on, easy to upgrade and sometimes affordable. I think $125 might easily buy this one (don't pay any more than you have to). It would be great if you had enough left over for another 4GB of ram.
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