What does base mean in relation to laptops?

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Hey guys,

I've been browsing the dell website recently and the specs of this laptop is confusing me the specs are advertised as 2.6ghz but when you check out the full specs there is two sets of speeds advertised.Some of the specs are as follows:

Base XPS L702x (UKI, FCG21UKI) – i7-2670QM (2.60Ghz, 8Threads, 6MB cache)
Hard Drive 1TB (7,200rpm) Serial ATA Dual HDD - (2x500GB)
Keyboard Backlit Keyboard
Dell System Media Kit XPS L702x Resource DVD
Processor 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM processor (2.20 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.10 GHz)
Bundle N02X7M22
Memory 8192MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x4096]
Wireless Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1030 (1x2 b/g/n+ Bluetooth Combo Card)
Video Card 3GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M Graphics Card

What does base mean in relation to to the specs and which is the actual processor speed thanks in advance guys.

Jaafa

The first number seems to be trying to get the average of the other other two.

All of intel's new processors come with a feature called turbo boost.

2.2Ghz is the actual speed of that processor, however when needed the processor will automatically increase it's speed to 3.1Ghz. This saves power and so consumes less battery life.

However it's important to note that 'Ghz' tell you very little about how fast a processor is. As a rough guide line:

The i3 is for basic everyday use such as internet, and other normal programs and light gaming.
The i5's are for the above as well as medium level gaming, some CPU intensive programs.
i7 for all the above plus hardcore gaming and CPU demanding programs.

Overheal

All core i5 and i7 have the boost, not i3s or other Intel processors, including the new dual core Pentium sandy bridge , which don't have it

Torqay

mendusa wrote: »

What does base mean in relation to to the specs

Absolutely nothing.

There's a colon missing. The base for this system is the Dell XPS L702x, you can upgrade the processor, the graphics card, the optical drive to Bluray and hard disk to SSD but the base remains the same model.

Overheal

Torqay wrote: »

Absolutely nothing.

Base grade model. Like the base model of a car, without the luxury addons.

Torqay

Overheal wrote: »

Base grade model. Like the base model of a car, without the luxury addons.

The backlit keyboard is definitely an upgrade (or "luxury addon") and does not come with the "base grade model".

U_Fig

The way dell work is they have serveral variations of the same laptop in bundles the base model is generally the cheapest model and using the configuration tools you can add upgrades.. On that matter from an xps 15 user..I'd recommend the 1080p screen and also getting an SSD but you'll get one cheaper than dells own I think it makes a huge speed difference to the laptop