Inspiron 1720  Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
Operating System  Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
MEMORY  4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz  4G2D  
LCD Panel  Glossy, high contrast, widescreen 17.0 inch display (1440 x 900)  
Video Card  256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT  256NV86
Hard Drive  Size: 320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)  320GB
Network Card  Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
Adobe Software  Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1  ADOBER
Optical Drive  CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)  8XDVDRW
Sound Card  Integrated Sound Blaster® Audigy™HD Software Edition
Wireless Networking Cards  Dell Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-card
Camera  Integrated 2.0 Megapixel Webcam  DCAMERA  
Battery Options  56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)  
 
$986
 
Just using it for an all around computer, some gaming but I'm not real cutting edge (diablo, aoe,)
 
This is my first laptop so kinda nervous (i dont want to go over $1000 on this thing)
 
Thanks!

Awesome config with a good price and it will serve u very well for what u are going to do with it

 
I personally would go for the T8100 processor, is more powerful and energy efficient, but if you don't use processor-intensive applications, maybe you won't notice it much. I usually prefer to get a better processor and save in RAM or hard drive, because they are easily upgraded, while CPU and GPU are difficult or impossible to upgrade.

Well the bad thing was that the next upgrade would have been:
 
tel® Core™ 2 Duo T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache) [add $225]
 
So it seemed to be quite the jump in $$$ for probably the same amount that i spent to add the ram and hard drive and video card.
 
Hopefully it wont matter as it is already bought!  

 
Yes, it's an expensive upgrade! Don't worry, T7250 is a good processor.