Advice on which laptop spec to pick

fannyanna

I'm looking to get a new laptop. We currently have a Dell Inspiron 1545 and I'm looking at a Dell Inspiron 15.

What's confusing me though is the varying technical specifications as follows:

• Price / Processor / Memory / Hard Drive
• £299 / Intel® Celeron® B815 processor (1.60GHz,1333,2M cache) / 3GB2 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz / 320GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
• £319 / Intel Pentium Dual Core P6200 (2.13GHz) / 3GB2 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz / 320GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
• £329 / Intel® Celeron® B815 processor (1.60GHz,1333,2M cache) / 4GB2 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz / 500GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
• £349 / Intel Pentium Dual Core P6200 (2.13GHz) / 4GB2 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz / 500GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
• £379 / 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i3-2350M processor (2.30 Ghz, 3M cache) / 3GB2 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz / 320GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive

For general web browsing, a bit of gaming by the Husband (football manager) and then storage of some music on itunes and some photography what specification should we be looking at?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Knarf44

The last one would be the one most would plump for simply because it is a Core i3 processor (2nd Gen) but in reality all of them would be ok but Football Manager could really do with running on something with a dedicated graphics card but you'd need to increase your budget by about £100 which will get you that plus the superior Core i5 (2nd Gen) processor and more RAM.

For example:

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ASUS_K53SC-SX307V_1120765.html

If your budget is sub £400 take a browse through the sub £350 laptop thread as there are plenty of good choices given.

Notmyrealname

Ignore the Celerons. The Core i3 is the fastest CPU.

simh

i agree, don't buy anything less than an i3 or i5 processor as it's just a waste of money. I recently bought a relative a packard bell tk laptop from tesco for £349 which was perfectly decent for what you want. the more Gb of ram the better too.

gonzo127

does it have to be dell?

are you willing to go for refurb (with 12 month warranty?)