Student Laptop

pkeno

Hi, im thinking of getting a laptop for college. I'll be using it for internet,word processing/excel spreadsheets, listening to music and some light gaming.
I can get a laptop through the college from dell(a latitude D610) with the following specs:

Pentium M 740 1.73Ghz, 2MB Cache, 533Mhz FSB
60GB 5,400rpm
512MB 533Mhz Non-ECC DDRII Memory (1*512MB
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
64MB ATI X300 graphics
Wireless,Dell 1370 802.11 b/g
Removeable 24x DVD/CD-RW
3 years on-site next business day gold support

for about 1430 inc VAT.
I can upgrade to 2GHz processor for 185,a 7,200 rpm drive for 50 and a DVD RW drive for 40.
You guys think this would be okay for my needs? Would you recommend availing of any of the upgrades? Ive read here that buying extra memory myself is cheaper then a dell extra. Speaking of memory is there much of a difference between 533 MHz and 400 MHz memory?
If anyone thinks im getting ripped off and could recommend a similar system for cheaper i'd be very grateful! Thanks

PS, sorry for the double post!!

thelad

For that kind of money I think you better have a look at my site before making your decision! It honestly seems a bit pricey!

www.upmanu.com

Dan_B

The D610's are solid machines.
Don't bother with the processor upgrade but defenitley go for the dvd-r/w.
Try the dell factory outlet, you'd get the same machine for a few hundred less.

chump

Shop around would be my advice...

The spec certainly isn't bad, but by just looking at komplett for example you can get

Acer TravelMate 4152LCi 15" XGA, PM740, 512MB, 60GB, DVD/CDRW, WLAN, XPP

for 1,069.00 + maybe 20 delivery == 1089 euro
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=314283&cks=SPK

Save yourself more than 300euro...
And that's not even searching much

pkeno

Found a site called bms.ie. They have a laptop with similar specs at http://www.bms.ie/toshiba1.htm#SPM70. Cheaper too and better video card, think i'll go for this one over the Dell. Anybody agree?

28064212

Try acernotebooks.co.uk, they have a great range and a good searching tool. Very well priced and they deliver to Ireland

Nukem

Check Elara as well they have got a rake of stuff in recently????????
Prices are ok but better off searching for key components - turion,x7/800,.......wil bring up some alright lappies

Borderfox

Bit off thread but where U based thelad? the business that is..

thelad wrote:

For that kind of money I think you better have a look at my site before making your decision! It honestly seems a bit pricey!

www.upmanu.com

thelad

Borderfox wrote:

Bit off thread but where U based thelad? the business that is..

I am based in Carpenterstown ,Dublin 15.only in business since February so still a big growing/learning curve (-;