Some Laptop Advice pls

AFK_Matrix · 16 May 2007 at 14:13

Hi,

I am going to be hopefully going to the US to look for a new job around October time and will be there for a maximum of 3months. Now I can't drag my beast of a Lian Li V2000 watercooled pc over there :eek:

So I was thinking of getting a Laptop over there.

I have looked on the Dell Site and seen these 2 specs and just wanted your opinions. I would like to play Supreme Commander, Cod2 etc on this laptop too.

First Option:

My Components

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7200 (2.00GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)

Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005

2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHZ, 2 DIMM

160GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive

8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability

512MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7950 GTX

Integrated Audio

My Accessories

80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945a/g

Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)

Logitech QuickCam Fusion Web Camera

Also Includes

17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™

Integrated 10/100/1000 Network Card and Modem

Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0

Award Winning Service, Support

Inspiron XPS, Specialized Support

Windows XP™

Intel Centrino Core Duo Processor

OR:

My Components

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5300 (2MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB)

FREE Upgrade to Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with 1GB of memory

17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™

2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz

120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive

8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability

256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory

Integrated Audio

My Accessories

80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945a/g

Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)

Logitech QuickCam Fusion Web Camera

Carbon Fiber QuickSnap™ Cover

Also Includes

Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem

Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0

Inspiron 1705 Dual Core

Intel Centrino Core Duo Processor

Windows Vista™ Premium

Now the second laptop is on special at the mo with $500 off so it would in actual fact be £1100 and the First laptop, the XPS one works out at £1600

So is it worth spending the extra on the XPS? I know by the time I'll go there will be better laptops out there but it gives me an idea.

Jaffa_Cake · 16 May 2007 at 14:15

The laptop prices in America are a lot cheaper than over here I beleive. Buy one while you are there?

Will_3rd · 16 May 2007 at 14:18

If you want to play games the XPS would be much better as the x1400 is the other lappy is cack

AFK_Matrix · 16 May 2007 at 14:27

Jaffa_Cake said:
The laptop prices in America are a lot cheaper than over here I beleive. Buy one while you are there?

Sorry musn't of explained my self correctly, I am going to buy one when i get there but would like to know out of those 2 which is better. Those figures in £ are the amounts after I ran a converter on the US price.