[BNM] Dual Core Laptops - Recommendations and dangers

[Jeff Horne]

Hi All,

As Easter approacheth you can sense the electrical shops taunting me with
their electronic goods.  I'm in the market for a dual core laptop (PC -
nothing in particular against Macs, the video editing on them is not to my
taste).  I've seen a bit of tooing and froing about whether Dells are any
good or not.  They're advertising an Inspiron 6400 for £648 at the mo.
Anyone got one?  Any good?

Similarly PCworld have an Advent 7093 for £799.  Any good?

...or should i just stop thinking about sales and promotions and save up for
an Acer for about a grand through ebuyer?

Any thoughts (other than "check the archive" - i have, i think these are
different spec or new models) would be appreciated.

Ta,
Jeff