Thanks for your replies.
I am going to cannibalize my old laptop anyway and stick the 512Mb of ram into whatever new one I get. I’m not too worried about storage size as the old 60GB drive out of my averatec is going into a caddy.
Basically bit ****ed off with my laptop breaking about 3 months after the warranty ran out, so want something cheep that wont break easily and if it does i can just send it in and it will come back fixed.
Stu