Need help on buying laptop for under $1K in Melbourne

[Wheel-J]

I should've posted this query ages ago..
Now I'm running out of time and can't accomodate risk from late delivery (if bought online) as I barely have a week now before I go overseas for a holiday.

I found Officeworks selling a Dell Inspiron Office Notebook
With Microsoft Office 2007 Home And Student Edition
2GB RAM. 250GB HDD.
2.16GHz processor.
Includes Microsoft Live OneCare security suite.


http://www.officeworks.com.au/owbd/b2c/init.do

I got a hardcopy of their catalogue and it shows it has Windows Vista and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
This is priced for $999.

So, is this a good deal?
If anybody knows a better retailer/computer shop, your help is much appreciated.

Cheers!

[MV75]

If you need something right now that comes with office and don't want to hunt down something with better graphics than the included intel crud, then it's ok, especially if you need it "today". According to the OW website, it's a 2.0 GHZ processor, and the dell website doesn't even offer that 5750 cpu model anymore, but price wise, it's not bad compared to the same model (inspiron 1525) right now on the dell site.

[roller]

what an age we live in

[Paulbot]

I just today bought a Compario computer of similar stats and price. I'm no computer hardware expert though, but it's an big upgrade on my current notebook and was a good set of stats for the under $1k price range.

From my shopping around for that price the peak you'll get is 2GB RAM 250 GB Harddrive 2 GHZ+ so that deal looks fine, especially with a version of Office thrown in.

I spent $1000 at Harvey Norman (with $100 cashback) and didn't get Office.

[Borgeman]

dell sucks balls - they give you the bare minimum....

George

[Lint]

I'm no savvy but it looks like a standard deal to me. Theres not really enough specs described to affirm my opinion.