Is this laptop ok?

Snakeeyes21

Take a look on http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/dfh/df.aspx?refid=df&s=dfh&cs=ukdfh1&~ck=betafrbsd its the dell site that sells refurbished, usually just unused returned orders.
they start from £216 + vat any of them will be more than adequate for your daughter.


the spec of one of the cheapest ones is,
Inspiron 1545(System Identifier: EZ11HLJ3)

• Inspiron 1545 Intel Celeron 900 (2.20GHz,800MHz,1MB)
• Windows Vista® Home Premium;Windows Vista® Home Premium

System Price:£216.08
Operating System
Windows Vista® Home Premium
Windows Vista® Home Premium Memory
Memory 1024MB (1x1024) 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Hard Disk Drive
160GB (5,400 rpm) Certified Refurbished
Certified Refurbished NoteBook Screen
Display 15.6in Widescreen WXGA with TrueLife CCFL System Color
LCD Back Cover Black Matte Finish MISC
MS Vista Premium Logo Label NB (small)
Keyboard Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard
Battery Inspiron Primary 4-cell 28WHr Li-Ion
Dell Wireless 1397 (802.11 b g)
Camera Not Included Base
Inspiron 1545 Intel Celeron 900 (2.20GHz,800MHz,1MB) Media Bay
Optical Drive 8X DVD + - RW Drive including software

plus the look more up to date than the latitude

supermonkey

if you seriously think it won't be used for much and that you'll replace this quickly, I would get a cheap second hand laptop with windows xp. it will probably be better than a poorly speced vista machine and then you could save for a better spec windows 7 machine later.

OneADay

Shakeeyes21's suggestion looks good - but you have to add on VAT and Delivery.

Plus vista is not going to be great with 1Gig memory.

The cheapest dell I could configure for my mate earlier this week was for £368.99 including tat and delivery - that was Inspirion 1545 I think with Windows 7 - 3gig memory, 250gig hard disk.

The 368.99 was including P4 processor - take that away and get a celeron processor the price was £328.99 - plus you can get about 4% off with quidco.

michaelro

sitcom123 wrote: »

Can someone advise me? I am looking to get my teenage daughter a laptop for christmas, she will be using it basically for homework, and social networking, she isnt really into games. I have been offered a dell latitude D530 at a good price with following spec
SPECIFICATIONS: INTELL CORE DUO CPU T7250 2GHZ 2GB RAM CD/DVD RE WRITER 80GB HARD DRIVE INTERGRATE WIRELESS 15.4 INCH SCREEN

Are these laptops ok and is the spec ok as I am a complete novice at techni

Hard drive is rubbish but the processor is a reasonable one
http://www.intel.com/consumer/rating.htm
What Operating System?

Celeron processors are rubbish and with 1gb will struggle with Vista Premium.