Currently got a Dell Inspiron 1520 thats about 2 years old now. Its a C2D 2.0Ghz T7250, 2gb RAM, 160gb 7200rpm HDD an 8600M GT HDD.
It performs fine for my needs, but there's a few things that I dont like. First, the HDD although pretty quick for a laptop is bursting at the seams a little bit, only got about 10gb free, so that wants upgrading so 500gb 7200rpm for £85
Could also do with a memory upgrade to 4Gb, that'll be £50
I want to upgrade to Win7 when that comes out, so thats £65
Its also a bit heavy/thick for my liking, I'm carrying it around more these days so it's becoming annoying.
So I'm potentially going to spend 200 quid on it. I could probably sell this one for £250~300 so it got me thinking about replacing it.
Would I get a worthwhile upgrade for £700~£800? I was looking at the Dell XPS 16 or the Sony FW series. Both are much nicer looking machines than my current Dell, thinner and lighter. Both would be along the lines of C2D 2.1Ghz, 4gb, 500gb HDD and some sort of discrete graphics.
Is a new 2.1Ghz C2D much faster than a 2 year old 2.0Ghz? Any comments on the above machines? Any other options I havent thought of? Ta!
It performs fine for my needs, but there's a few things that I dont like. First, the HDD although pretty quick for a laptop is bursting at the seams a little bit, only got about 10gb free, so that wants upgrading so 500gb 7200rpm for £85
Could also do with a memory upgrade to 4Gb, that'll be £50
I want to upgrade to Win7 when that comes out, so thats £65
Its also a bit heavy/thick for my liking, I'm carrying it around more these days so it's becoming annoying.
So I'm potentially going to spend 200 quid on it. I could probably sell this one for £250~300 so it got me thinking about replacing it.
Would I get a worthwhile upgrade for £700~£800? I was looking at the Dell XPS 16 or the Sony FW series. Both are much nicer looking machines than my current Dell, thinner and lighter. Both would be along the lines of C2D 2.1Ghz, 4gb, 500gb HDD and some sort of discrete graphics.
Is a new 2.1Ghz C2D much faster than a 2 year old 2.0Ghz? Any comments on the above machines? Any other options I havent thought of? Ta!