Laptop advice

[portritch]

I noticed dell is having some big sales lately and wondered if you guys have any suggestions to improve this kind of laptop:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5500 (1.66GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
15.4 inch UltraSharpâ„¢ Wide Screen WXGA+ Display with TrueLifeâ„¢
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 DIMM
120GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability edit
128MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1300 HyperMemory™ edit
Integrated Audio

I was planning on using it for mostly music downloading, aim, iTunes, and Mozilla Firefox

 

[Kage]

Looks really good to me actually. What can you update on it, if anything?
I'm hopefully going to get a lappy soon with the Core 2 DUO onboard

 

[TRDCorolla1]

For what you want to do, those specs will defintely work--plus more. You can play virtually any game with that setup. Get it....or I'll take it from you, hehe.

 

[portritch]

I have a compaq presario 2100 and i'm sick of its b.s. always freezing. I usually keep the Norton crap disabled so that all the ram desnt get used up and i can actually semi-multi task.
Oh, i forgot to mention its a Dell Inspiron R1405 for $940.

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

why not format your current laptop? it will run faster. nothing against the inspiron though

buy it....now!!!!!!!

 

[portritch]

Well, my current laptop is still under warranty and i could get a new battery, and touchpad for it, but the ram for it is very hard to find for some reason 266ghz is very rare. Otherwise i don't know what else i could do to improve it.

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

i mean reformat as in reinstall windows....

 

[portritch]

Wait why would i do that? Would that make it faster?