Dell Inspiron 15 £349 deal, help!!!!!

Right, hi all, need some very quick advice, looking at helping someone get a laptop, and have seen this deal which ends today. Basically, a Dell Inspiron 15, Windows 7, T3000, 250gb Hdd, 15.6" Widescreen WXGA CCFL (1366 x 768) TFT Display, 3gb RAM. Free shipping, save £82, and HDD upgraded to the 250gb, which all ends today.

Are these any good. Basically would be used for general internet, photo viewing (not very much editing), maybe some movies. No gaming at all. I like the offer, but some reviews I've seen havn't been to kind. It would be for someone who is not massively knowledgable on computers, and would be pretty much using it straight out the box with no tweaking so to speak.

As i've said, the offer ends today so need to be quick, but don't want this person to buy a piece of useless rubbish. Specs look ok to me, they will do for what it's being used for, but is build ok, dell uk customer service ok incase something goes wrong??

Quick help would be much appreciated guys.

Thanks

 

I think its fine

 

I think this has a 4 cell battery with an optional 6 cell for a fiver; worth the extra cost unless you're desperate about the weight. Also there's a cheap WLED screen option and the webcam is extra.

They good reliable basic machines and I think Dell CS is OK. You'd struggle to find anything much better.

 

i was thinking about this laptop but im not sure about the proccesor. Can anyone give me any reviews on the proccesor and how it would cope with internet browsing microsoft office and the odd movie.

 

Im not sure i'd ssay it's a great deal really.

If you want a webcam, LED dispaly, better battery your going to go WAY over £400

For £399 you could get: http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/sto...null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=738415&category_oid=

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/738415#productInformationSection


You get a better T4300 processor, LED Screen, better battery, webcam, HDMI, multi gesture touchpad.

 

The processor is not better

the Dell has : Intel® Celeron Dual Core T3000 (1.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 Cache)

the Acer has : # Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor T4300
# (2.16Ghz, 667Mhz, 1MB Cache)

the terms Celeron and Pentium Core Duo mean nothing now and this is a good example.......Intel is playing games with us.

More ram too the Acer has 3gb and the Dell 4 gb

But the acer has a larger HD and LED at 399 ( includes Vat)

the Dell is 50 pounds less including Vat

so I think its a toss up as far as value

for 419 pounds inclusing Vat the Same dell has LED and larger Hard drive

Dell UK

 

The T4300 has 800mhz FSB

 

Could the processor be upgraded manually?

 

if its slot compatible and the original is not embedded. ( some are)

 

im just wondering how this processor will hold up with multitasking and watching hd dvds.

 

It should do very well. Look Intel makes a processor and then they turn on things and turn off things and call them different names
Celeron
COre Duo
COre 2 Duo

and so on

I really think the new celeron duo will perform almost if not as well as a Pentium Core duo
The video card is the same as I have and I have no problems

I could not find anything on Cel core duo vs Pentium core duo I think its just too new.

 

Thanks for the info i believe the new celeron is based on the same architecture as the core 2 dup and pentium dual core. im just wondering how the celeron will cope in a couple of years.

 

The answer to that is very simple. If your use of the notebook does not change significantly, then you'll be absolutely fine with it in 2 years or 5 years.

Otherwise, you're asking us to predict something we can't possibly know because we have no idea what you might expect from your notebook in even 2 months time.