I'm buying a laptop for my mom who is retired.

her current laptop is six years old, has a 2 gig harddrive and it has 88% of the space left.

She travels around the country with my dad in their trailer home thing.

all she uses her computer for is email.
that's it.

Because she is still running windows 95 (!) she can't update her virus software.

I would like to spend about 1000.00 bucks on this machine.
it doesn't need to be the latest and greatest but I would like something nicer than what she has now (200 mhz with 48 megs ram)

I've looked at Dell and gateway. any other suggestions?

I will also need to put an international modem in it for when she travels out of the USA

Thanks for any suggestions.