Is this a good college laptop?

Question

here is my setup, should i get 3 gig ram with 32 bit vista or 4 gig ram with 64 bit vista? what are problems? is my processor good enough? im not lookin to play counterstrike or doom on my comp or anything

Operating system Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit) edit

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo Processor T5750 (2.0GHz) edit

Display 17.0" diagonal WXGA+ High-Definition HP BrightView

Widescreen Display (1440 x 900) edit

Memory 3GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) edit

Graphics card 50% OFF 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS edit

Hard drive 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive edit

Personalization No Webcam or Fingerprint Reader edit

Networking Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network

Connection edit

Primary CD/DVD drive LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support edit

TV & entertainment experience No TV Tuner w/remote control edit

Primary battery 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery edit

Productivity software Microsoft(R) Works 9.0

Answer 1

wow nice specs, i got an inspiron 1720. same specs.

id say get yourself a vista 32bit, 64 wont get you anywhere unless you run 64-bit applications which are very rare.

64-bit vista can be backward compatible with 32-bit vista.

remember that vista 32-bit can only read 3.5gb's of ram, while 64-bit can read up to 16gb.

i got the same processor btw, only i got an NVIDIA 8600m GT 256mb and a 320gb hardrive and 4gb of ram.

and dude, with 512mb of video card u can play some pretty graphic intensive games. your card will crunch down counter strike source in a breeze.

goodluck.

Answer 2

its a very good setup , i don't care much for intel but they are really getting better with the duo and quad cores