I just bought a 15.4" Inspiron 1545. 3 GB ram, Pentium Dual-Core 2.1 GHz, 230 GB for $580. Aside from Dell fucking me over on shipping, I like the system.
I love my Inspiron. Got a similar setup to yours...1525 w/2 GHz Core2Duo, 3GB ram, 250GB hd for about $650...this was about a year and a half ago. Still running strong, no problems.
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