HELP! i'm getting a laptop & need help with the computer language? please help!

DancingRainDrop

I have about €500 and i need to get a cheap but good laptop!
I need it for college work and music etc

If some one could help me understand how to buy one it would be great!
I don't know whats a big memory or a small memory - is a 1GB memory small?

And how many GB's should a good hard drive be?

This is a laptop i just saw on pc worlds website and i and considering it but
i have no idea what all this means:

Main Features
INTEL CELERON M 430 Processor 1.73GHz

533MHz FSB

Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Premium

1MB Cache

1024MB RAM

80 GB Hard Drive

DVD +/- RW Optical Drive

15.4'' WXGA GLARE Widescreen

128MB Intel UMA Shared Graphics Memory

1 year FREE warranty



http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0464685295.1192308438@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdkaddmfddgljhcflgceggdhhmdgml.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=809226&category_oid=-27751

so if someone could tell me what this all means and if this laptop would be worth buying?

thank you

workaccount

I'd say Dell. I'm biased though. I have had a few. I never had any problems with them at all though. They have been very good to me.

I had an inspiron (a few yrs ago) which is the laptop they market for home users. I really liked this. I don't really like the styling of the current models though. Prices start from €579 including VAT. http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/notebooks_good?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs

Then the laptop they market to business users is the latitude. Home users can also buy these. They are more expensive but look way nicer (imo). I use one of these now for work and home. There strong and durable. Inspirons are not that durable. When you hold one in your hand it won't feel like it's of a high quality as opposed to latitudes.

I actually have some second hand latitudes for sale if you are interested. They have 1GB ram and windows XP. Nice processor too.

1GB ram is plenty for what you will be doing. I'd say steer away from Vista for now since it has been released only in recent times and has its teething problems.

As for hard disk space. 80GB should be loads.

Steer away from the likes of pc world as they tend to be quite expensive.

BobbyD10

Processor would put me off, but if your looking for something cheap and cheerful then your grand with that. You put another €80 to the 500 and you can get a dell that workaccount mentioned.

DancingRainDrop

thanks for the help

I found this laptop today in Dixons

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06b/21675-38187-179483-179483-179483-12925866-80487512.html?jumpid=oc_R1002_UKENC-001_Compaq%20Presario%20F560EM%20Notebook%20PC&lang=en&cc=uk

And I don't mind paying an extra 200€ for it

But again, I have no idea what all the stuff means

so can anyone let me know if its anoy good?

Is the memory enough for music, pics, documents??

help is much appreciated

AlmightyCushion

Your best bet would be to get a dell vostro, they are great value for money at the moment. What is your budget?