Some Advice Re Which/What Laptop

sometimesconfused!

Ok here goes am looking to buy 2 laptops for my teenage children thought I had found the ideal one being a Toshiba L40-14N for £379 spec is
Intel Duel Core Processor T2310
1.46 GHZ
1024MB Momory
120GB Hard Drive
3 in 1 DVD/CD rewriter dvd Rom
3 x USB, 15.4" Screeen and Window Vista home Premium

then what happens is I read about other laptops so being that i am sometimes confused I am now always confused!

Reading the paper today I notice that Dell have a offer for an Inspiron 1520 with intel celeron M Processor 540 1.86GHz 1Mb L2 Cache 533MHZ FSB 1024 MB RAM and Vista Home Premium. For £399.

Which is the better? Or do you know of any other I could be looking at £400 is pretty much my budget and with this I would like to get the best possible spec - if only I understood what it was! Thanks in anticipation.

sometimesconfused!

Toshiba 2 year guarentee dell 1!?

motorguy

Sounds like a reasonable spec, though vista seems to like 2Gb to run properly, but thats an easy upgrade if you find its a problem.

I'd avoid the celeron m processor these days. Dells offering with the core duo processor comes in at £429 on the 1520 range

The only other Dell offering of interest is on their Vostro 1000 machine, comes with a top end AMD processor, 2gb RAM and a dvd rewriter for £386.

You can get a summary of dells best deals on www.dmxdimension.com. If you use the E-value code from there you can get 5% cashback if you go there via https://www.quidco.com

sometimesconfused!

Thanks pgilc1, opted for the Toshiba in the end don't feel that I know enough to compare really, and like you say can always upgrade is need be (sure someone could help me with that)! Was also persuaded by the 2 year guarentee. They only really need one for their ipods, cameras, mobile and msn stuff. So hopeful have made the right choice.

Thanks again

motorguy

I'd say they will be chuffed. 2 year warranty a good idea! ;-)

Good luck

map200uk

gotta agree, toshiba was a good choice, id avoid celerons, id expect to pay 100 quid for a celeron laptop, no way pay 400 when you can get a core 2 duo/centrino or amd turion based laptop (and yes amd is better than celeron-m imo) which are all better than celeron

celeron has always been a budget cpu, and performance has always reflected this (granted the new celerons are better than the 1st gen-which i had a 1st gen celeron desktop based system) however, the prices charged for celeron systems are way too high imo