XPS 15 vs 17

[ubersonic]

Raking my brain trying to decide if I would be best served by a 15 or a 17, the XPS 15 has a 1366x768 screen and a GF 540m GPU, the XPS 17 has a 1600x900 screen and a GF 555m GPU.

On paper the 15 reviews give its GPU the 540m around 80% of the power of the 555m in the XPS 17. However the XPS 17's 16x9 screen has 40% more pixels. So am I correct in saying that when running at native resolution the XPS 15 will have more pixel pushing power?

 

[ninja2000]

thats a tough call. but to make your decision a bit more difficult...the stock screens on both the xps15 and 17 are dire. I would highly recommend upgrading to the 1080p screen if image quality is important to you.
I first got the xps with the 1366 screen and it was so bad I sent it back and got the 1080p which was amazing.

Both the 540m and 555m are both good overclockers, I found I could play a lot of my games at 1080p with an overclock (SC2, COH, DOW2) but did have to lower the res for COD BO and BFBC2.