[Soothesayer9]

I am wondering if that would be too much overkill for my sis. She only checks email and plays “casual” games like Peggle, and the Reflexive company games. However..she also likes to use Mame for simple games as well, which is cpu intensive (not gpu). I am wondering if 400 is pretty much the lowest I can get a decent notebook for playing the Mame emulator (old classics like pac-man, galaxian, puzzle bobble, etc)

[TomGuy]

I am wondering if 400 is pretty much the lowest I can get a decent notebook for playing the Mame emulator (old classics like pac-man, galaxian, puzzle bobble, etc)

Check some of the laptops at Tigerdirect.com. They have good prices. And their machines don't have a lot of the clog-ware that is on some other machines. [Walmart is bad about having a whole lot stuff installed on their comptuers.]