Pretty crummy advice. For the same cost of the dell, he could get better parts by building himself. We just need to know along the lines of what he's thinking as chipeater had asked.
Processor is a little overkill, you can get away with 2.8-3.0 GHz for the same setup and save some cash (I have two of them in this function). If you intend to play games on it, then keep the CPU. If not, the Athlon II X4 640 will have plenty of power for that, and they're cheap little things. (save $30 or so)
Yea I was thinking that also but I was told that if ever want to edit video you need a good CPU and video card. I don't really do that but would like the ability to in the future. Just home movies and fight promo DVDs