studio 17 advice

neil_hosey

Hi Guys,
I have a Dell Studio 17 and am looking to get rid of it but dont know how much to sell it for. Its a fairly high end one with:

4 gigs ram
2.6Ghz DualCore, 6mb cache proc
17" screen
yada yada..


I was wondering if anyone had any number they could throw at me that would be around what it is worth, it is approximately 11 months old and cost in excess of 1200 euro i think. I cant remember exactly now.

Tim Robbins

neil_hosey wrote: »

Hi Guys,
I have a Dell Studio 17 and am looking to get rid of it but dont know how much to sell it for. Its a fairly high end one with:

4 gigs ram
2.6Ghz DualCore, 6mb cache proc
17" screen
yada yada..


I was wondering if anyone had any number they could throw at me that would be around what it is worth, it is approximately 11 months old and cost in excess of 1200 euro i think. I cant remember exactly now.

you could buy something similar (not as fast processor) for 649..
http://ireland.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/specials/most_popular_laptops?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs

neil_hosey

Tim Robbins wrote: »

you could buy something similar (not as fast processor) for 649..
http://ireland.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/specials/most_popular_laptops?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs

theres a very big difference between a 2.14 dual core 3 mg cache and a 2.6 6mg cache lappy.

But i do see what you mean. I checked how much it was for the upgrade to my processor, its an extra 290 euro.

Alanstrainor

What processor is it exactly? What graphics card does it have? How's the battery? Does it hold a charge? And if it does how much?

neil_hosey

gets about 2 hours outa the battery now.

Graphics card is crap, not a gaming lappy

Its actually not a 6 meg cache ffs!!

P8700 2.53Ghz 3meg cache i think.

dont know how much to put it up for!

Alanstrainor

neil_hosey wrote: »

gets about 2 hours outa the battery now.

Graphics card is crap, not a gaming lappy

Its actually not a 6 meg cache ffs!!

P8700 2.53Ghz 3meg cache i think.

dont know how much to put it up for!

Thought that 6mb cache sounded off. If it has that processor and no dedicated graphics then i really cant see it making more than the cheapest Studio 17 on Dell at the minute which is about 600.
The one for 600 has a high resolution screen,ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics, 3GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive. The only thing it doesn't have is the superior processor your machine has.

Erper

hm, how old is it...

Alanstrainor

neil_hosey wrote: »

... it is approximately 11 months old and cost in excess of 1200 euro i think.

Erper wrote: »

hm, how old is it...

11 months.

neil_hosey

i would be definately take 600 i think. even though obviously everyone always overprices their own hardware :P i thought the best option was to ask u guys.

Mine has a 320 gig hdd aswell actually.

Guess i will stick it in for 600 somewhere .. thanks again lads.

Alanstrainor

Yeah best of luck with the sale man.