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Acer Aspire AS5532-5535 or HP Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX Notebook

I'm brandnew here and I can say I like it here! I want to buy a new notebook. It should cost around $350. Usually I wanted a Dell Mini 10v but I saw two nice notebooks for the same price at Bestbuy. The first one is the Acer Aspire…

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@chicagostan Published 2010-01-31
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I'm brandnew here and I can say I like it here!
I want to buy a new notebook. It should cost around $350. Usually I wanted a Dell Mini 10v but I saw two nice notebooks for the same price at Bestbuy.

The first one is the Acer Aspire AS5532-5535:
AMD Athlon TF-20 / 3GB DDR2 / 160GB HD / DVD±RW/CD-RW drive / 802.11b/g/Draft-N / Windows/ ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics

or

Compaq - Presario CQ60-615DX

Intel Celeron processor 900 2.2GHz / Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M15.6" Diagonal High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display2GB DDR2 SDRAM Memory / 250GB Hard Drive / 802.11b/g/n WLANSuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer SupportWindows 7 Home Premium 64-bit / 6-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery

I just realy want to use Snow Leopard on an nice and cheap laptop. Can somebody tell me does the hardware would work?

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Edit:

Should I buy the Dell Mini 10v? Snow Leopard runs perfect on it.

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