Dell Inspiron 15R Laptop?

Currently, I'm looking at laptops for college(I'll be going on about a year.) I don't really care about core processors(whatever that is) or anything like that. :P I just want a decent, functional laptop that can do basic things. (Internet, email, maybe skype, msn ect ect) The laptop I'm looking at now would be like $450 from Dell's website, which I'm assuming is a good deal. (I really don't know what I'm doing.) Any opinions as you may have noticed, I'm clueless? =P