rate this dell laptop for me guys

movingtables · 16 May 2007 at 20:01

DELL Inspiron 9400 £879

Components

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7200 Processor (2.0GHz,667MHz,4MB L2 cache)

Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium - English

Collect & Return, 1 Year Service only

17" Wide Screen WXGA (1440x900) TFT Display

2048MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]

160GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive

256MB ATI® Mobility™ Radeon® X1400 HyperMemory™ graphics card

Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including software

6 cell Lithium-Ion Battery (53 Whr)

Main uses

Surfing

"some" dvd encoding

watching a film in the garden on summer nights
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PS- you think that ati graphics chip can handly vista Aero ok ?

fail at the internets · 16 May 2007 at 20:10

Should do looks pretty nice, i say you buy it.

SiriusB · 16 May 2007 at 20:11

Looks like a good lappy to me, although to be honest I haven't seen how good they can get.

As for the graphics card you should have no problem. People with 4 year old graphics cards can run Aero so you shouldn't have a problem.

As an aside, why the hell do companies market Vista as "Genuine Windows". It would be bloody poor show if Dell or the like started sticking hooky Windows on their computers

movingtables · 16 May 2007 at 20:34

hmmm I got £4k in the bank and could buy this easy.
I'm sure It gets harder to spend money as you get older (32)

PS- do you think i would have many issues with Vista using it for my previously highlighted needs?

xb8browney · 16 May 2007 at 20:38

I have a friend with the exact same one (I think) it runs vista perfect

My Laptop runs vista ultimate fine with aero

C2D 1.6Ghz
1Gb ram
120Gb HDD
Intel 950 gfx

MRBARKER · 16 May 2007 at 23:46

Maybe you should get the 7900 GS

Jaffa_Cake · 16 May 2007 at 23:50

I was going to buy one of those exact laptops but I never got around to it. Got a spec from Dell sales. You can haggle the price down a lot with them

Note this spec is a few months old, see what you can get from dell sales