Laptop for the Girlfriend... Yay or Nay?

blondeonblonde

So the missus wants a laptop and was going to put in an order for this... Price comes to 588 including shipping. Basically she just wants it for basic enough use, web surfing, skype, word processing etc. Thing is for an extra 150 quid she could get a faster processor -P7350 (2.0 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 Cache), twice the hard drive and 4gb of RAM. If it was for myself I'd be inclined to upgrade but not sure whether she needs the extra processing power...

What ye reckon?

Cheers,

Intel® Pentium® Processor T4200 (2.0GHz, 800MHz, 1MB cache)

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Alanstrainor

Is that a Dell Studio?

Being honest, she wouldn't notice the difference in the processors, and also the extra gig of RAM wouldn't see much change either. And unless she has a lot of Data to store the extra HD space is probably not needed.
Tbh i wouldn't bother upgrading.