Having ordered 4 of them on behalf of other people at Christmas (colleagues and family memebers) I can reccomend the Dell- I have a more expensive model but the Inspirons I oredred were all about £400 and served the purpose intended- Internet- word processing- DVD's- and some of the older games.
it depends on what you want it for but if its general purpose then the inspirons are good- or for something a little extra the XPS systems are worth it
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...hs1&l=en&s=dhs