good priced laptop?

[myself123]

hi there

is this a good deal from dell

Dell Inspiron 1501 (N02157)
AMD® Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL50, Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Base AMD® Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL50
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows Vistaâ„¢ Home Premium
Memory 1024MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)
Keyboard Internal Keyboard - (QWERTY) - UK/Ireland
Video Card ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory™
Hard Drive 120GB (5,400rpm) Hard Drive
Mouse Dell USB Black Optical Mouse
Modem 56.6k V.92 Capable Internal Modem & Adapter
CD/DVD Drives Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
Wireless Local Area Networking Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band 802.11a/b/g 54Mbps Mini-PCI Wireless Card33
Microsoft Application Software Microsoft® Works 8.5 - English
Standard Warranty Collect & Return, 90 Days Service only
Power Supply 65W AC Adapter
Primary Battery 6 Cell, 56Whr Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Dell System Media Kit Inspiron Resource DVD - Vista (Diagnostics & Drivers)
LCD 15.4" Wide Screen XGA TFT Display: 1280x800

£ 479 delivered

also how fast is the AMD® Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL50 processor ? thank you

 

[Anubis1980]

Welcome to the forum!!

My bro recently bought a laptop from PC world, for 400, the specs were less than that, smaller hdd etc, so yeah i think thats not a bad price. No experience with the cpu, but i like AMD's. He has had to take his laptop back already 3 times in 2 days because of bugs caused by vista, so be prepared to have a hard time with that...

ps.

k just did a bit of research lol, the cpu runs at 1.6ghz which is good, and altho people tend to prefer Intel for laptops, id happily go with an AMD. Here is an article describing the AMD Turion... (ignore the fact that its for a BENQ laptop still gives u a bit of info about the AMD cpu)

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=14&id=1990

 

[aerick]

something to keep in mind is that Vista is a memory hog. i have 1g in my laptop, and vista runs 3/4 of it just in idle. happy hunting.

 

[yexusbeliever1]

I advise you to stay away from Vista.