Just because its made by Dell, I will say no. The only good products from them are the monitors, personally. I was browsing through some cheaper laptops for myself and I thought this was ok:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834227010

Operating System: Windows Media Center 2005
Processor: Intel Core Duo T2500 (2.0GHz)
Screen Size: 17" Widescreen
Memory: 1GB DDR2

For worse spec in my opinion on this laptop is the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 video card. I never liked ATI but this isnt a gaming laptop either. This should work fine for web developement.