Interested in buying a Dell laptop

[Gozza]

I came across this spec for a Dell laptop and with no technical knowledge wondered what more informed people here thought about it?

My use would be mainly internet browsing, word and EXCEL, Photoshop, storing photos and videos, Genealogy, watching DVDs, e-mails, etc. I'm no gamer!

I'm also not sure about the solid state hard drive! Is it better or worse than normal hard drives?

Thanks for looking

Spec reads:
2nd generation Intel® Core? i7-2640M processor (2.80 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.50 GHz)
O/S - English Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium (64 BIT)
Display - 40 cm(15.6") FHD WLED True-Life (1920x1080) with 1.3 Mega Pixel Integrated Camera
Memory - 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz
Hard Drive - 256GB Solid State Hard Drive
Video Card - 2GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M Graphics Card with Optimus
Optical Drive - 8x DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Wireless - Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6230 (2x2 b/g/n+ Bluetooth Combo Card) (Europe)

 

[Gozza]

Thanks Disco Boy

I'll look for the Dell Outlet Store as you suggest, but what do you mean by 'the hard drive is solid state so is faster than a mechanical hard drive (but be aware that it isn't very big)'?

Should the size of a solid state drive be bigger than 265GB? Or is that as big as it gets? And if it is only the size it is, what are the implications for me?