Dell Laptop...Is this a good buy?

PROCESSOR AMD Turion鈩?64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-56 edit

OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista庐 Home Basic edit

LCD PANEL 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display edit

MEMORY 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 DIMM edit

HARD DRIVE Size: 120GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit

OPTICAL DRIVE 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive edit

VIDEO CARD ATI RADEON庐 Xpress1150 256MB HyperMemory鈩?(Integrated) edit

SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Audio edit

BATTERY OPTIONS 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery edit

WIRELESS CARDS Dell Wireless 1490 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps) edit

ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 36-months edit

OFFICE SOFTWARE Microsoft庐 Office Home and Student 2007 - Word, Excel + PowerPoint edit

BURN %26 DIGITAL EDITING SOFTWARE Yahoo! Music Jukebox - Music Player edit

Dell Laptop...Is this a good buy?windows

The specs on it look alright, though I'd personally do away with Vista Home Basic and put XP Pro on it, and replace McAfee with Kaspersky or something else. Other than that, it looks alright for the price, but if you don't need to take it with you, you could build a desktop PC with very similar specs for much less.

Edit: Ok, since it has to be a Dell, and has to be a laptop, scratch the build the PC suggestion. My suggestion about changing out Home Basic and McAfee still stands, however. If you do this, I'd go with Office 2003 instead of 2007, since 2007 doesn't run on XP if I'm not mistaken, and would be cheaper if it's still available for purchase, and you might be able to go with a single core processor if you don't need the extra power a dual core offers, to shave a bit off of the price.