What GB should I get for my laptop?

I have read these responses, and don’t think those that have no idea what they are talking about should give advice. To answer your question…

If you are getting a MacBook (not my choice, much more PC can be bought for the money), the 2 GB refers to RAM (which is not much on modern laptops, though Macs do use less RAM than PC’s) Microsoft Office is available on Mac O/S, and it will take up 1.5GB of hard drive storage.

Hard drive storage is more likely to be above 200GB, and is where programs and documents are saved to be called into RAM. The reason computers have RAM, is because it is exponentially faster than hard drive storage, and the processor cannot directly access the hard drive information to execute any commands. A previous reply noted that a limited amount of memory will slow downloads, while download speeds are actually almost completely unrelated to the amount of memory a computer has. If you use all of your memory, the computer will start to use more and more of your hard drive space to keep allowing programs to run, so make sure you have plenty of RAM (and as I wrote earlier 2GBs of RAM is not very much for a modern laptop).

So.. yes it will come with enough RAM to run the software and more storage space for plenty of other files (and programs, though the game selection for Macs is scarce, and Macs don’t come with much for graphics).