help me to compare these two laptops!!!?

Question

dell - inspiron 1501
PROCESSOR Mobile AMD Sempron™ 3600+ edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic edit
LCD PANEL 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display edit
MEMORY 512MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHZ, 1 DIMM edit
HARD DRIVE Size: 60GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive edit
VIDEO CARD ATI RADEON® Xpress1150 256MB HyperMemory™ (Integrated) edit
SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Audio edit
BATTERY OPTIONS 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery edit
WIRELESS CARDS Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card (54Mbps)

compaq c500t
Operating system Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic (32-bit) edit
Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) M Processor 520 (1.6 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB) edit
Display 15.4" WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800) edit
Memory 512MB DDR2 System Memory (1 Dimm) edit
Graphics Card Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950 edit
Networking 802.11b/g WLAN edit
Hard Drive 80GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive edit
Primary CD/DVD Drive SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support edit
Primary Battery 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

Answer 1

Well unless either of these is extremely cheap I wouldn't purchase either of them.

The processors (Sempron & Celeron) are both pretty basic old school processors that just don't cut it in todays world of computing.

If you're going to do anything other than surf the net, and do regular word processing, I'd be finding something better if I were you.

512MB of RAM is far below par.
5400RPM Hard drives are slow compared to 7200 ones.

If I were forced to choose one over the other, I'd go for the Dell, since all my Compaq experiences have been bad.

That's my opinion.

Answer 2

I like the sound of the first one, but I prefer AMD processors.

Answer 3

I'd get the Dell, but maybe http://www.cnet.com will help you decide.