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resources needed for good browing laptop

for a laptop to only mainly have good capacity to do fast browsing and streaming of videos, what minimum resources would you recommend for
vista
and
win 7?

like CPU (how many cores), how much mem, etc
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Aquatone: for browsing the web you don't need 4G of ram or a core 2 duo and great graphics card, you are confusing wants and needs

.. a net-book with an atom cpu is sufficient it is just web browsing not video rendering.. no need for a big hard drive.. depending upon your eyes you may want a larger display but the normal 12" is sufficient and has lots of battery life. I've seen refurbished units for under $200 that you could use all day almost without plugging in.    Even a P3 or P4 laptop would be sufficient for browsing but the battery life will be terrible (in comparison).. the oltpc netbooks or the chromium net-book work well for browsing.. for casual browsing I use my android 10" tablet and it works just fine just a little small for my aging eyes.
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OK. thanks.

in general, would you say vista and 7 have the same resource needs/requirements. or 7 needs a little bit more?
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thanks for confirming
Thanks for the points