Which Laptop to Buy?
December 10th, 2013
REFURBED VPCF1390X Laptop:
Bluetooth : Stereo A2DP Bluetooth® technology
Processor : Intel® Core™ i7-840QM quad-core processor (1.86GHz) with Turbo Boost up to 3.20GHz
Chipset : Intel PM55 (SPEC00090004475)
Color : Black
Consumer Apps : General Apps
Display : 16.4″ VAIO Full HD Premium Display (1920×1080)
Software Optimization : No Fresh Start
Graphics Card : NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 425M GPU (1GB VRAM)
Hard Drive : 640GB Hard Drive (7200rpm)
Backlit Keyboard : LED Backlit Keyboard
Memory : 6GB (4GBx1 + 2GBx1) DDR3-SDRAM-1333
Multimedia Software : Adobe Bundle (Free – $448 value)
Operating System : Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
OS Preinstalled : Genuine Windows® 7 Pre-installed
Office Software : Microsoft® Office 2010 Starter (Click More Info for details.)
Optical Drive : CD/DVD Player / Burner
Recovery Disc : No Recovery Disc
Wireless Local Area Network : Wireless LAN (SPEC00090004502)
HDMI Output : HDMI Output (SPEC01000004336)
TV Tuner : No TV Tuner
Transfer Jet : No Transfer Jet (SPEC00090004548)
$745.15
Or
Dell XPS 15
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Processor 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM processor 2.20 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.30 GHz
Memory 8GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory
Keyboard Standard Keyboard – English
LCD 15.6 FHD B+RGLED TL (1920×1080) and Skype-Certified 2.0MP HD Webcam
Video Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M 1GB graphics with Optimus
Hard Drive 750GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
Color Elemental Silver Aluminum
Integrated Network Adapter Integrated 10/100/1000 Network Card
Adobe Reader Adobe® Acrobat® Reader
CD ROM/DVD ROM 8X Tray Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
Sound JBL 2.1 Speakers with Waves Maxx Audio 3
Wireless Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1000
Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) Microsoft® Office Starter: reduced-functionality Word & Excel w/ ads. No PowerPoint or Outlook
Anti-Virus/Security Suite (Pre-installed) McAfee SecurityCenter, 15-Months
Battery 56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Service 1 Year Basic Support
Peace of Mind DataSafe 2.0 Online Backup 2GB for 1 year
Mobile Broadband No Mobile Broad Band Selected
Trusted ID Trusted ID,IDSafe, 12 Month Subscription, Digital Delivery
$857.00
Basically a $100 difference, however I might be able to get a 20% discount off the Refurbed Sony laptop, making it about $250 difference between the two.
I was wondering if the difference in laptops (I really don’t know the details in between the two)is worth a $100 difference or potential $250 difference.
What I plan to do isn’t going to be that much CPU heavy. I’ll be gaming, but figured both could run most recent games at low settings, which would be fine for me. Browsing internet, watching videos, and the works would be done. Nothing special really, I’m just a college student who doesn’t plan on doing much graphics designing.
The XPS is clearly better. It’s not refurbbed. It has a second gen i7. The video card is better. It has dual channel memory.
I understand that the XPS is better, I’m saying is it worth $100 more or potentially $250 more. Thanks for your input by the way.
To be honest, I don’t think either of them are worth it for you. You said that you won’t be doing anything processor intensive and that you’ll mostly just be web browsing.
Yeah, I thought about that, but the i5’s that I’ve found were around $400-600. Figured for $100 more, an i7 would be worth the purchase for better gaming. However, I’m rethinking getting a i7 and just thinking about waiting out for a decent i5 for a ‘steal’. What got me about the refurbed one was 20% off the 1st laptop, putting it at about $600-650.
Both seems to be cheap, in my opinion. Where are you buying this? However it depends realy what you want to do, if i was buying a new laptop i would first look at the guarantee, 2+ years. The difference between those two is present, and i would go for 8GB Ram version, it s worth the money.
Not sure what warez-bb policy is regarding posting websites, but I visit ‘slickdeals.net’. It’s basically deals on almost everything, including laptops. Yeah, I’ll probably wait a bit for a decent i5 to save a few dollars. Thanks guys. If I can resist buying the XPS that is lol, I felt it was a great deal for those specs, but wasn’t sure if it was worth the extra money over the former laptop.