New laptop - opinions?

Righty ho, I'm (hopefully) gunna get me a laptop for christmas/bithday.

As far as I can tell, I've got 2 options.
Dell Inspiron 1000
Dell Inspiron 510m

I need the wireless (so I can use the network at school), either I got for the 510m and its built in, or I go for the 1000 and buy a card seperatly. I'm not too bothered about processor speed, or memory as long as I can do office stuff and maybe a bit of gaming (maybe i want a reletivly good graphics chipset too?).

Anyway... what do you guys think?

 

you do a lot of graphics and audio, why not try a mac?

 

I like the 510m. Mostly because its not a Celeron processor like the other one.



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If your going to be doing some gaming, I would go with the 510m, celerons are terrible for gaming.

 

Mainly because of the cost.

The cheapest mac is about a grand, and I don't have that much money to be throwing around! And the software aint cheap either If budget wern't a problem, I'd get an iBook though.

 

you can get a refurbished ibook for about 900 US dollars.

 

Hmm, so you can:

http://www.2ndchancepc.co.uk/ibook.html

I dunno though, buying new software will be expensive, for sure.

 

yeah well, that's what your handy bookmarks are for, remember goldy

out of the 2 dells I'd get the 510m, but with at least 512mb rammage

 

510 out of the two. . .

just stay away from IBM

 

Why do you say that?

My dad's company runs most of his computer control rigging jobs from ThinkPads, and none have gone down due to hardware yet.

 

I got two Thinkpads giving me problems
but they are old
thats just me. . .
and there support site is worse than Microsofts

 

Amen to that!

I'm going with the 510m, nice and light and wireless