Dell Inspiron 1300 - Any good?

[The_One]

Considering getting a laptop for browsing the net, downloading a few files now and again and sometimes altering photos etc in photoshop.

Was looking at a Dell Inspiron 1300 with the 15.4inch screen upgrade.

What do people think of these laptops and are they good value for money?

Intel® Celeron® M Processor 380 (1.60 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB)
256MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (1x256)
60GB Hard Drive
15.4inch WXGA (1280x800) LCD Panel
8X DVD+/-RW with Software
Dell™ Wireless 1370 802.11b/g Mini PCI Card

£396

I was then going to purchase a stick of 1GB crucial laptop memory ti upgrade the memory as it is a lot cheaper then speccing it with the memory from dell

 

[The_One]

Can you easily uninstall the unneeded running processes or do you "need" to do a reinstall with a seperate copy of windows XP?

I'm also addicted to football management sims such as Football Manager 2006. Would the inspiron with the extra ram i plan to get cope with that without "chugging" away slowly?

 

[The_One]

Nice one, cheers