firedawg

Hello guys, I have just joined forum to seek some help with the purchase of a new laptop.

Mine is from the dark ages and cannot cope with my needs,
I recently bought a HDD camcorder so am looking to edit my home movies/photos, also to play some games, and basic computer stuff, also burn dvds.

I saw the one below and wondered if you could advise me if it could do all of the above applications,DELL INSPIRON 6400 LAPTOP
INTEL 1.60 GHZ CORE DUO PROCESSOR (DUAL 2 CORE)
160 GB SATA HARD DRIVE
1024 MB DDR2 RAM
8X DVD±RW CDRW ( BURNS CD's/DVDs )
INTEGRATED STEREO SOUND
INTERNAL WIRELESS INTEL 802.11Y a/b/g CARD
56k V.92 MODEM
256MB nVidia® GeForce™ 7300 TurboCache graphics card NVIDIA®

15.4 WIDESCREEN (1280x800) TrueLife BLACK GLOSSY
9 CELL Battery
WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM
NEW CANCELLED ORDER
1 YR WARRANTY DIRECT WITH DELL
PRICE INCLUDES VAT
DELL BOXED ITEM
CARRIAGE



My budget is about £500 which this one is, also need to know about graphics cards as I really don’t understand the difference, is this one ok.?

Can a game that says it requires xp be played on a vista machine?

Can the above spec run vista ok?

also i have seen a 2gb version but with a smalller hd(120gb)
and with ati radeon graphics (which is better ati or the above)

Thanks very much for looking ,hopefully i can bring this months long search to an end , cheers.