Good deal on Laptop???

Verve

Verve

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I was building a laptop at HP's website today, and I came up with what I think is a good setup (for my brother who is going to college next year).

Tell me what you think of the deal:

HP dv5000z

Operating System Genuine Windows XP Home Edition
Processor AMD Turion(TM) 64 ML-37 (2.0GHz/1MB L2 Cache)
Display FREE Upgrade to 15.4" WXGA BrightView Widescreen!!
Graphics Card 128MB ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory(TM)
Memory 1.0GB DDR SDRAM (2x512MB)
Hard Drive 80 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
Primary CD/DVD Drive DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
Networking FREE Upgrade to 54g(TM) 802.11b/g WLAN!!
TV & Entertainment Experience No TV Tuner w/remote control
Primary Battery 12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
Productivity Software Microsoft(R) Works/Money
OS and Recovery Media Genuine Windows XP Home Edition Backup CD

$1,128.97 after rebates and instant savings
 
It's a decent setup, but nothing out of the ordinary. Your not planning on playing any kind of new games are you?
 
hmm, nothing super, just things like Freelancer and some older 2003 EA Sports games which run OK on even my integrated graphics computers.
 
i have a portable 5400RPM and its slow, but i dont know how you would change that unless you wanted a new OS and everything, and you got a good 7200RPM laptop HDD.
 
don't worry too much about the hdd speed, the newer 5400rpm hdd will run just about as fast as the older 7200 rpm hdd. 7200 is ideal but when 5400 is the only option you should be fine. My laptop has a 5400 rpm hdd and its fine for me.
 
So, slower hdd means a noticable slowdown in opening ordinary files? Or, does it only affect games or video etc.?
 
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