Is this laptop specification any good?

[KatyMac]

SYSTEM SPECIFICATION spacer
Insprion 1501 (System Identifier. E6R4YVH0)
Inspiron 1501 Turion 64 X2 TL60 (2.0GHz, 512K)
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
System Price £309.23

Dell recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
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Operating System: Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
Memory: 512MB 533MHz DDR2SDRAM(1x512)
Hard Disk Drive: Hard Drive 60GB Serial ATA (5400 RPM)
NoteBook Screen: Inspiron 1501 14.1 WXGA LCD
Network Interface Card: European - Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g 54Mbps Mini-PCI Wireless Card
CD Read-Write Drive: 24xCDRW/8xDVDComboDrive
Software: No Software Application
No Anti-Virus Software
MISC: 65W AC Adapter
6-cell , 53 WHr Li-Ion primary battery
DVD Cyberlink Decoder Software (No Media)
UK/Ire - (QWERTY) - Internal Keyboard
Insprion 1501 Turion
Inspiron Resource DVD - Vista (Diagnostics & Drivers)

Is it OK?

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Not many programmes

My camera, printer & Office probably

I use an external Hard-drive atm

So it should be OK?

No- it's returned I think

Yep I checked it's been returned

It's on that bit of the site where they sell the laptops are returned

It's as cheap as I can find withour vista

On the other hand with Delivery it's 363 - that's loads

I may keep looking

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Inspiron 1521 (System Identifier. Z2A6JFM5)
Inspiron 1521 Athlon 64 X2 TK55 (1.8Ghz)
English - Vista Home Basic
System Price £289.22

Dell recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
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Operating System: English - Vista Home Basic
Memory: 1024MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)
Hard Disk Drive: Hard Drive 80GB Serial ATA (5400 RPM)
NoteBook Screen: 15.4Widescreen WXGA (1280x800) TFT Display
Modem: Internal 56K Modem
CD Read-Write Drive: 8X DVD+/- RW Drive
Software: BT, AOL, Tiscali ISP Combination
English - Microsoft Works 8
MISC: 65W AC Adapter
Primary 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion Battery
Jet Black Colour with Matte Finish without camera
Assembly Mod
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Don't fancy Vista

have you checked out dabs.com and scan.co.uk - both are good IME.

Bought my daughter her laptop recently from Dabs and it's superb.

FWIW I think Dell laptops are crap and they break/ overheat often.

Their 'dedicated helpline' should be renamed, 'well, we'll pick up the phone and listen to you but actually know less than you do about systems so you may as well not bother line'. All they know how to do is say 'have you rebooted?

Whereas with Dabs they will answer intelligently and replace if it doesn't work, with no quibble at all!

Is this any good?

I'd agree with the above.. ...check dabs - but NEVER deal with their corporate people.. ..simply rubbish

KatyMac - that last one probably isn't what you're looking for (unless you like fiddling with linux) 512Mb RAM and a 2Gb hard drive.. ..not spectacular.

What're you looking to do on the PC and what's your absolute top budget?

Emails/internet/word/excell/print photos (no games - well only the odd suduko )

As little as possible as I have a lovely one & this is for childminding staff & children/dd & dh to play on