Dell Vostro 1500 vs. Acer Aspire 5630-6288

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I finally got it down to 2 notebooks. the dell vostro 1500 and the Acer Aspire 5630-6288 and here are the specs for both

Dell Vostro 1500: Cost is $748

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5470 (1.6GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Home edit
LCD PANEL 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display with TrueLife™ edit
MEMORY 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM edit
HARD DRIVE 120G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive edit
HARD DRIVE PARTITION Custom Hard Drive Partition, 20GB Primary, Remainder Secondary (XP Only) edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 8X CD/DVD Burner w/ double-layer DVD+R write capability edit
VIDEO CARD 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS edit
WI-FI WIRELESS CARD Dell Wireless 1490 802.11a/g Wi-Fi Mini Card edit
WEBCAM No Webcam Option edit
SOUND OPTION High Definition Audio 2.0 edit
My Accessories
BATTERIES 56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery edit
BUILD A BUNDLE Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand with Fan edit
My Software
PRODUCTIVITY No Pre-installed Productivity Software edit
SECURITY No Pre-installed Anti-Virus/Security Software edit
My Services & Warranties
WARRANTY & SERVICE 1 Year Limited Hardware Warranty with Mail-in Service edit
ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE SERVICE 1 Year CompleteCare Accidental Damage Service edit
DELL DATASAFE™ ONLINE BACKUP 10GB for 1yr Online Backup by Dell Datasafe edit
AUTOMATED PC TUNEUP 1 Year Dell Automated PC Tuneup edit
DELL NETWORK ASSISTANT DellNetwork Assistant 1.7 edit
ON-SITE SYSTEM SETUP No Onsite System Setup edit
PURCHASE INTENT Purchase is intended for resale. edit
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
Integrated NIC and Modem Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
Labels Windows XP™
Processor Branding Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
Miscellaneous Vostro 1500

and here's the Acer's Specs: cost is $779

Processor brand Intel®
Processor type Core 2 Duo
Processor speed 1.66GHz
Bus speed 667MHz
Level 2 cache 2MB
Memory
RAM 2GB
Memory type (RAM) 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200)
RAM expandable to: 4GB
Storage/Drives
Hard drive speed Info unavailable
Hard drive size 160GB
Burns DVDs Yes
Graphics and sound
Screen size (diagonal) 15.4"
Maximum screen resolution 1280 x 800
Video memory 224MB
Video memory type Shared
Ports
USB 2.0 4
Firewire 0
Infrared port No
PC card Yes
Express card No
S-video out Yes
Media card slot Yes
VGA Yes
TV tuner No
Internet/networking
Dial-up modem Included
Ethernet Yes
Wireless 802.11a/b/g
Bluetooth No
Built-in webcam Yes
General features
Operating system Windows® Vista Home Premium
Warranty Parts 12 Months
Warranty Labor 12 Months
Dimensions
Height 1.4 inches
Width 14.1 inches
Depth 10.4 inches
Weight 6.4 lbs.

What do you think i should go with? also with the Dell vostro or Acer is it possible to upgrade the processor (later when i can afford it)or Just the RAM or hard drive (of course)

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oh yea and the Acer only comes with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and the Vostro with the 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS . let me know what ya'll think. thanks

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Acer's build quality hasn't been up to par in recent history, this Acer model may be no different in that respect. If build quality's a big factor in your purchase, go with the Vostro since it's well built as a business notebook, because that's what's expected of their build quality in a business setting. The 8400m GS should serve you well for casual gaming as well, and should run games like HL2 or WoW nicely.

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HL2? do you mean Halo2? i don't play world of warcraft..but i at least want to play Halo2 on it..

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Well Halo 2 is just badly coded, I hear even powerful computers have trouble running it on PC...talk about a bad port.

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really? the Halo2 that they made thats compatible with vista or the just the regular one for like 30 bucks?

[ethanhunt123]

Regular Halo2 is for Xbox only, wont run on your PC. He is talking about the Halo2 for Windows Vista,

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ok yea anyways..would it be better to get windows xp on the dell vostro or have the vista premium on the Acer considering what the specs are?

[nivek]

He's talking about Half Life 2, if I'm not mistaken...

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enough about games..what notebook should i go with?