Advice on a Dell

Rafloution

Hi all,

I have managed to snag the below spec on the dell outlet for 503 GBP, I know its a grand spec but I wanted a 17" with an i5 which seem to be more expensive anyway. Might just count my luck and go with the 15"

My requirements are not gaming but given the price i think I should just go with the 15 anyway

Just want some thoughts on what I should do.

I have the option to cancel.

Base Inspiron 7520 Base
Operating System Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Memory 8192MB (2x4096) 1600MHz DDR3
Keyboard Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard
Video Card 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7730M
Driver Driver : 2230 Wireless Card
Hard Drive 1TB Serial ATA (5400RPM)
CD ROM/DVD ROM 8x DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Wireless Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 Card (802.11n + BT 4.0)
Primary Battery Primary 6-cell 48W/HR LI-ION
Processor 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3612QM processor (6M Cache, up to 3.10 GHz)
Color Choice Switch by Design Studio - Aluminium



looking to go with pc specialist for the 17" its £548


Chassis & Display
Voyager: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) (£35)

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Mobile Processor i5-3210M (2.50GHz) 3MB

Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (1 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
Intel® HD Graphics 4000 Video Memory Technology up to 1.7GB

Memory - Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)

Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)

Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING

Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack

dazbaz996

Rafloution wrote: »

Hi all,

I have managed to snag the below spec on the dell outlet for 503 GBP, I know its a grand spec but I wanted a 17" with an i5 which seem to be more expensive anyway. Might just count my luck and go with the 15"

My requirements are not gaming but given the price i think I should just go with the 15 anyway

Just want some thoughts on what I should do.

I have the option to cancel.

Base Inspiron 7520 Base
Operating System Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Memory 8192MB (2x4096) 1600MHz DDR3
Keyboard Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard
Video Card 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7730M
Driver Driver : 2230 Wireless Card
Hard Drive 1TB Serial ATA (5400RPM)
CD ROM/DVD ROM 8x DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Wireless Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 Card (802.11n + BT 4.0)
Primary Battery Primary 6-cell 48W/HR LI-ION
Processor 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3612QM processor (6M Cache, up to 3.10 GHz)
Color Choice Switch by Design Studio - Aluminium



looking to go with pc specialist for the 17" its £548


Chassis & Display
Voyager: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) (£35)

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Mobile Processor i5-3210M (2.50GHz) 3MB

Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (1 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
Intel® HD Graphics 4000 Video Memory Technology up to 1.7GB

Memory - Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)

Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)

Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING

Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack

Hi

If your requirement is not for gaming and you don't need a lot of processing power for encoding video etc then why not go for a lower spec on the processor. Get yourself an I3 and up your monitor size to the 17". Also, you have 8 gigs of ram on the above spec, you could lower this to 4 gig.

Don't get me wrong, it is a nice spec laptop, but my view is to spec for what you will use your laptop for.

Rafloution

Thanks, the dell one I managed to bag on outlet. ram etc isnt an option to change on it.

The Voyager 17" from pc specialist even the i3 comes in at over 540 gbp including postage.

So for 30 quid less I get a 15" but with better sound and processor ram and hard drive.

Think that sums it up, just needed to break it down really