XPS M1330 SSD, video card, and processor help!

I'm deciding on wether or not to upgrade to 128GB SSD for performance and battery life. However, I'm worried that vista 64 bit will take up a lot of memory and I will not have enough space for microsoft works, word, excel, etc. along with 30gb of music and maybe 20gb of programs and such. Should I just go with a regular hard drive?

Also, I am convinced that the 2.5GHz processor is superior to the other non 45nm processors in terms of speed and power consumption. Is this a viable upgrade?

If I get the 128MB GEForce card, will that suck out a lot of power when I'm just doing regular tasks such as internet and word?

I basically want this computer for internet, battery life, and maybe play some games every once in a while. The main reason I wanted to get this model was because of the thinness. If there is another model that would be very good in battery life, thin, and speedy performance (don't care much about games) then please feel free to redirect me!

 

@kaos4u2nv.. the LEnovo U330 might be a better bet than the m1330 (though its a little weaker on the graphics power side, but newer specs[montevina] and hybrid graphics)...

dont upgrade the processor past T8300 if u want to save money.. not worth it...

 

Hi there. A M1330 2,5GHz 45nm, 128GB SSD, 8400M GS, 6 cell battery will give you app. 4 and a half hours of battery surfing the web and writing in word and app. three hours of movie watching or gaming. With the 9 cell battery I suppose you add 50% batterytime.

Re 128GB being enough... I have 320GB on my system, running Vista Ultimate x64. Vista alone consumes at present date (Vista+logs+system restore+shared dll) 27,5 GB. For programs-partition (I have Office, three webbrowsers, a few system maintenance programs, java, iTunes, flash and pdf reader, the usual and a handfull of games (maybe a few more ) 32 GB, my userfiles-partition gets the rest of the space (pictures, videos, downloads, favourites, writings, other documents, music etc.)

So, by your own statements it would be, ~25GB Vista + ~20GB Programs + ~30GB Music = ~53GB left for user documents... and you don't have to worry about keeping ~15% free diskspace on every partition either, due to defragmentation and stuff on normal HDD.

 

You'll have enough space with a 128GB SSD for everything that you want to put on it. The video card you picked will consume more power during normal tasks that an integrated card would, but it is your only option if you want to play games.