Re: Dell Computers
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I would avoid a Celeron, even for day to day stuff a Pentium (either M or 4, M will probably get better battery life) is vastly superior. The battery in my notebook lasts 2½ hours, of course I have a very fast notebook for Architectural rendering, so my battery life is a little low, but I wouldn't count on much more than 3 hours for an average notebook. There are probably cheaper notebooks out there, but Dell is reliable and has great tech support. Another recommendation is get lots of RAM, I would suggest 512MB, even if it knocks the processor speed back a little to stay in your budget. I have 1GB of Ram and a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 and its soo much faster than my friends 3.2GHz with a measly 256MB Ram. My biggest downfall is my graphics card (of course as I said, I do lots of graphics intensive rendering), but for just word processing, powerpoint, and dvds; pretty much whatever they put in will be sufficient.