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For $1,532 is this a good laptop?

SYSTEM COLOR Jet Black edit PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8600 (2.40GHz/1066Mhz FSB/3MB cache) edit OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Service Pack 1 64 Bit edit OFFICE SOFTWARE Microsoft® Works 9 edit Dell Recommends Office Home & Student. Lets you create great-looking documents, spreadsheets and presentations quickly. Upgrade to Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 - Word, Excel + PowerPoint [add $149 $99 or $3/month1] WARRANTY AND SERVICE Classic Protection: 1yr Ltd Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis edit HD DISPLAY 15.6” High Definition+ (1600x900) LED Display with TrueLife™ edit MEMORY 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 800MHz edit HARD DRIVE 500GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit VIDEO CARD 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330 edit INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE 8X CD / DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive) edit BATTERY OPTIONS 9-cell battery edit WIRELESS CARDS Dell Wireless 1397 802.11g Half Mini-Card with Netgear WGR614 Wireless Router edit INTEGRATED WEBCAM Integrated 1.3 MP Webcam w/Facial Recognition edit SOUND OPTIONS Soundblaster X-Fi Hi Def Audio - Software Enabled edit My Accessories SECURITY SOFTWARE McAfee 15 month edit DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP Dell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year edit BAGS Targus Eco-Smart 'Facets' Back-Pack. fits up to 17". Black/Blue, Designed for Dell edit WIRELESS ROUTERS Netgear WNR2000 Wireless-N Broadband Router edit STORAGE Midnight Blue 8GB Data Traveler 100 USB Flash Drive edit STORAGE Jet Black 320 GB USB 2.0 eGo II Portable Hard Drive edit My Software & Accessories ADOBE & ENTERTAINMENT WildTangent Games edit ADOBE & ENTERTAINMENT Adobe® Photoshop® Elements + Adobe® Premiere® Elements edit AUDIO Targus Laptop Accessory Bundle - Gray edit ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0 Network Integrated 10/100 Network Card PROCESSOR LABELS Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor OS LABELS Windows Vista™ Premium DIAL-UP INTERNET ACCESS No ISP requested REMOTE ACCESS Dell Remote Access, free basic service

Public Comments

1. Looks over priced...
2. Hmm...while I initially came into the thread expecting a quick "Wow, that sounds overpriced.", that has some really sick stuff in that, especially for a laptop. So I would say it's probably decent (though admittedly I'm no expert when it comes to laptop prices.) What does turn me off is the 2.4 GHz processor--it's not necessarily bad, but if you're going for gaming (which I'm guessing you are with that rig--or some SERIOUS movie-watching) you'll want one a bit faster. (Again, not a laptop expert, though.) If you're able to just upgrade that, go for that set-up but with a 2.8 GHz, or at least a 2.6.
3. over priced
4. Not only the graphic card is sucks but the whole laptop is overpriced. I'm pretty sure you can buy better laptop from different brand with that same amount of money
5. Way over priced, I have an eMachine its fast and it's lasted me 5 years, so far