thats good advice, and usually when laptops have 4 gigs of ram in them, its going to have larger then a 200 gb hard drive, at least from what ive seen. thats like more of the better models that have specs like that. look into some of the new toshibas, they have some really nice products. personally i like my laptops small so i went with a 14.1 inch screen i believe. im a big fan of the 13 inch ones too tho. more portability but to each his own