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We are in the market for a new laptop computer that has just the basics but can also store videos and be capable of burning CDs or DVDs and I don’t understand all the abbrev. of Rws and such. Our budget can’t go to far over ,000. Any help would be welcome, thanks.

I have a compaq,presario,v6000.Norton antivirus 2007.Windows XP. I have the same computer to access the internet before, but now I cannot.