I need a laptop

[That Guy]

nope, $56 is the cheapest you can get it (51$ + 5$ shipping) without it being a crap brand. and yeah, I'd say the difference from 512mb to 1gb is worth the cost. above 1gb you probably won't notice unless you use massive photoshop files, use the laptop as a database server (why oh why?) or play very specific new games (but laptop gfx cards would probably be the bottleneck before ram).