Are you really advising a newbie to buy Litecoins? Stop your lame attempt to make him inflate this bubble even more. The FIRST crypto-currency a newbie should be is Bitcoin. Period.
When Bitcoin start in 2009 nobody believe in it, year ago BTC was $10 now over $120
When Litecoin start in 2011 nobody believe in it and was worth 7 cents now about $3 (42 TIMES more!)
50,180 BTC change owner at 2013-02-01 when price was right !!!
With 2Gh miner you can mine 2.5 BTC/month BUT over 3 LTC/day so it's WISE to mine LTC now and keep them till 2014 or 2015 or buy LTC if you can PERIOD.