Should I give up my Laptop for a good DesktoP?
I currently have an Inspiron 300m. Had it for about a year now and paid about $2300 at the time.
Main specs are:
- 1.2 Centrino
- 30 GB HD
- 12.1 inch screen
- 256 MB Ram
- External Floppy Drive
- Media base (has a subwoofer integrated, and a 4X DVD+RW)
My sister needs a laptop, and so I'm thinking of just giving her mine and just asking her for about $1500, and getting a good desktop.
I'm just wondering if I'd be able to get a good desktop computer for about that much.
I already have a 160GB Maxtor IDE HD. And I'm looking for a desktop with these specs:
- 17 inch LCD Monitor
- 2 Ghz processor (think thats fine for me)
- 512 MB RAM
- DVD+RW Burner
- Good Motherboard (have no clue which one)
- Decent Soundcard (doesn't have to be, but 5.1 would be nice)
- A good video card, not a hard-core gamer really though, perhaps somethign with a TV Tuner card.
Reason why i'm thinking of giving up my laptop is I'd just like somethign more powerful. And I know my sister would be fine with my laptop, since she uses basic things. Although I love the portability of a laptop, I think i'd be fine with a desktop as well. But yea do you think I'd be able to get custom parts to put together that desktop I'm looking for about $1500? Minus the cost of a HD since I have one, dont worry about peripherals, I have enough of those.
Thanks.
Main specs are:
- 1.2 Centrino
- 30 GB HD
- 12.1 inch screen
- 256 MB Ram
- External Floppy Drive
- Media base (has a subwoofer integrated, and a 4X DVD+RW)
My sister needs a laptop, and so I'm thinking of just giving her mine and just asking her for about $1500, and getting a good desktop.
I'm just wondering if I'd be able to get a good desktop computer for about that much.
I already have a 160GB Maxtor IDE HD. And I'm looking for a desktop with these specs:
- 17 inch LCD Monitor
- 2 Ghz processor (think thats fine for me)
- 512 MB RAM
- DVD+RW Burner
- Good Motherboard (have no clue which one)
- Decent Soundcard (doesn't have to be, but 5.1 would be nice)
- A good video card, not a hard-core gamer really though, perhaps somethign with a TV Tuner card.
Reason why i'm thinking of giving up my laptop is I'd just like somethign more powerful. And I know my sister would be fine with my laptop, since she uses basic things. Although I love the portability of a laptop, I think i'd be fine with a desktop as well. But yea do you think I'd be able to get custom parts to put together that desktop I'm looking for about $1500? Minus the cost of a HD since I have one, dont worry about peripherals, I have enough of those.
Thanks.