How does this sound for a laptop spec?

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Hi

My parent's have asked me to look at getting them a laptop for general use, with an upper budget of £500.

How does this look for that sort of price? (it's one they've seen and given the price include a 3 year warranty my initial thought is it isn't bad).
I've no idea about laptop CPU's etc, but it does need a reasonable size screen (neither of them have great eyesight).


Intel® Celeron® Ultra-Low-Voltage processor
4 GB memory1
320 GB S-ATA hard disk
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4530 DirectX® 10 graphics
Multi-gesture track-pad for scrolling, rotating and zooming6

Power saving and super efficient processor
Intel® Celeron® Ultra-Low-Voltage processor SU2300 for longer battery life! (1.2 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, FSB 800 MHz) - This looks to be a Duel Core Celeron

Brilliant graphics
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4530 DirectX® 10 graphics with 512 MB GDDR2 memory and digital HDMI audio/video output

High Definition Audio
with 2 loudspeakers – Dolby® Advanced Audio™ certified

15.6" TFT Widescreen Display – HD resolution with 1366 x 768 pixels
Home cinema experience, thanks to high definition pictures and super colours in 16:9 cinema format

Massive storage space
320 GB S-ATA hard disk – For more than 60,000 songs or photos3

Huge memory
4 GB DDR2 SDRAM1

Multi card reader (SD & MMC)
(Memory cards not included)

Latest Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11 n-standard technology
with up to 300 Mbit/s. 802.11 b/g compatible

Network controller
Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mbit/s. on board

Huge software package (OEM versions) with Windows® 7 Home Premium

Connections
3 x USB 2.0, 1 x eSATA, 1 x VGA out, 1 x HDMI out, 1 x LAN (RJ45), 1 x microphone5, 1 x line out


Or any suggestions as to what else to get?
 
Thanks for the replies so far :)

I must admit i'm a bit worried about the CPU, but as it's only really going to be used for web browsing, listening to iplayer (my mum really likes being able to listen to R4 on listen again:p), and possibly some youtube, speed isn't as important as screen size.
 
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