Thanks, all.  Intuit specs require 2.4 GHz dual-core processor and 4 GB RAM and 64-bit operating systems. When you look at the different vendors there are so many sub-types.  I am most concerned with the program opening quickly and the laptop in general booting up fast.  Not sure if that is memory or processor or both.  My current laptop takes forever to start now and it is intel core i7 2.2 GHz with turbo boost up to 3.2GHZ  and 8GB DDR3 memory, windows 7 home.