FAO Dirk and anyone else who can help with laptops

I currently have a 5yr old COMPAQ desktop which is slowly dying. I am wanting to get a laptop that I can game, download music on, burn CD's, and also job stuff, something that will be quick, not go out of date soon, and that I can use when I eventually make my internet wireless.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving over here and they have huge sales. One of the stores is offering the following laptop for $378 (about 200 pounds). My question is should I get this laptop for what seems the great price, or should I save some more cash and go for a DELL or something eles at a later date?

The laptop is:

HP Pavilion z32308wm Notebook
Includes-
AMD Mobile Sempron 2800+ processor
1.6 Ghz
256 RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive
CDRW/DVD ROM
54G.802.11 Wirless LAN
15 inch screen

Thanks for any/all your help

PS. To add on to my last question, there are two other laptops on sale:

Gateway Intel M 360 Notebook, 512MB, 60GB, Wireless $580 (about 350 pounds)

Toshiba L25-S1193 Laptop - $450 (about 260 pounds)

Any advice/experience on which is the best?

Again, thanks

 

I saw a laptop with almost identical to that on sale here for £599 so at £200 that seems a bargain

 

Dirk?

You may as well have written that in Swahili for all the sense it wil make to him.

 

id snap it up

200 squid for a new lappy bang on!

 

I suspect

the misunderstanding was from here http://www.barnsleyfc.org.uk/BBS/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=13232&mid=79018#M79018 

 

RE: I suspect

I thought it sounded strange when someone said that Dirk was an expert on something...

 

btt n/t

 

Id

Go for the Toshiba. Excellent deal apart from its not going to be great for games but then laptops aren't unless you are prepared to spend big.

 

properly lol

 

what do you think to the specs then dirk?

 

RE: what do you think to the specs then dirk?

They're grrrrrrrrrrrreat.