If the following explanation makes sense to you, print it out and take it with you to the store. Buy at least a celeron processor running at a speed of at least 366 megahertz. If you can afford faster chips, that's fine. But remember that top speed chips aren't necessary if all you're going to do is word processing. We strongly recommend 32 or 64 megs of RAM, even if you have to have the store add memory to the machine you want to buy.
Memory is measured by the byte .
Think of a byte as a single character, a letter in the middle of a word. A whole page of text is about 1,000 bytes. It should be 3.2 gigabytes in size or more. Make sure it's non-interlaced so that it flickers less. The computer's internal video system should have at least one megabyte of VRAM, special video memory that makes the screen display faster.