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    USA: Dell Inspiron 1525 (Best Buy) $499

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by intec, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. intec

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    Depends on the muti-tasking. Internet, email, music, etc., probably. Gaming, video editing, large photo editing, etc., not likely. X3100 might not handle Aero to well.

    See spec in my sig, the have a C2D, and dedicated GPU but other than that pretty similar, and it runs Vista pretty well.
     
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    I will be using the Internet most of the time, but I might have several applications open at times. Can it handle Firefox, Wordpad, Anti-Virus, Yahoo Messenger, PC-PC calling, and Yahoo Widgets open at the same time?
     
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    It is a dual-core processor, but it is an older Core based processor that has been around for about 3 years. It also has a very tiny 1MB L2 cache and doesn't even support a 64 bit OS. Probably the only good things that it would be suitable for are internet and email (which is why it is in that section of BestBuy.com), but don't expect a bunch of different applications to be running and still be as snappy as far as speed goes. Sort of seems like a good deal for the $500 range.

    -J.B.
     
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    I'm sure that it would. Don't be scared about my first post if all you are doing is using the applications that you listed.

    -J.B.
     
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    Can it handle aero?
     
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    Yes, the x3100 graphics handle Windows Aero just fine. I am using them right now. :)
     
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