Help - can't decide between these two laptops.

[boobum]

Hi everyone, after endless laptop research I'm unable to decide between these two laptops. I'd really like to go for the cheaper reconditioned model but am worried that the other model may be much better.

As you can probably tell, I'm not great with this technology 'stuff' so any pointers from those of you in the know would be great! Thanks in advance.

PS. will be using it for internet and photos mostly.

1. TOSHIBA U300-13U

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5250 (1.50 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB Cache)
battery life - not specified
screen - 13.3" WXGA TruBrite
graphics card - INTEL GMA X3100
memory size - 2gb
hard drive 160gb
Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Premium
£599 (£455 for reconditioned model)

2. TOSHIBA SATE A210-198
AMD Turion 64 x2 Dual CoreProcessor model number TL60Processor speed 2.0 GHz
Processor bus 1600 MHzProcessor cache 1 MB
battery life - up to 2.5 hours
screen - 15" widescreen
graphics - ATI MOBILITYHD2400 128 MB
memory size - 2048 MB
hard drive - 200gb
Windows Vista Home Premium
£549 (currently on offer for £539)

[opinionateddad]

agree with Littlelapin....

.. however.. we aware that this is an AMD chipset.. of very rare (and I mean very rare) occasions there can be some incompatibility with some hardware or software as most stuff is written for Intel chipsets...

That being said.. if it was my money I would take door number 2...

Also Toshiba are a great make.. very solid and reliable... better build quality than Dell's for example so good choice