Need help picking a small laptop/netbook

[simplechamp]

People tend to push for dual core, high clock speeds, etc. but if you just need to do email, word processing, and other basic school/work related stuff all that processing power will be going to waste, if anything it will lower battery life. The Intel Atom processors are fine for most people's usage. If you want to spend on upgrading don't bother with CPU or GPU, spend it on more RAM and secondary storage.