Recommend me a new Laptop

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is that website reliable?

Which one??

If you are referring to dmXdimension they link directly to the Dell website.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

cool thanks. quick question: i see there are two xps 17 in the dell site. http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...n&s=dhs&~ck=mn

whats the difference between the two.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home...=dhs&cs=ukdhs1

http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home...=dhs&cs=ukdhs1

edit: ahh i see teh difference. one of them has a 550m card and the otehr is a 435 card

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cool thanks. quick question: i see there are two xps 17 in the dell site. http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...n&s=dhs&~ck=mn

whats the difference between the two.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home...=dhs&cs=ukdhs1

http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home...=dhs&cs=ukdhs1

One of the ranges uses the new mobile Sandy Bridge processors.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

One of the ranges uses the new mobile Sandy Bridge processors.

this one http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home...=dhs&cs=ukdhs1 ?

umm does the recent desktop sandy bridge issues occur on laptops as well?

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this one http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home...=dhs&cs=ukdhs1 ?

umm does the recent desktop sandy bridge issues occur on laptops as well?

Yep!

However,these laptops maybe shipping with the new fixed chipsets so I would check with Dell first.

It seems that the new XPS laptops have the faster GeForce GT550M:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-...M.42264.0.html

However,this is a rebranded version of the GeForce GT435M found in the old XPS laptops but the GPU is clocked higher:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-...M.35836.0.html

OTH,with your £700 budget you can choose between the Core i3 2310M in the new XPS laptop or the Core i5-480M in the older XPS laptop:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-C...r.45318.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-C...r.41730.0.html

The Core i5 is not only clocked higher than the Core i3 but has Turbo Boost too. Despite the architectural improvements of the Sandy Bridge mobile Core i3 processors,the Core i5-480M is still faster IMHO.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

cool, i just spoke to someone from dell and said that there new xps 17 does include the chipset fix but as you said, the i5 is better than the sb i3.

i could not find any benchmarks of the 550m gpu though.

Also, the new dell xps 17 just released today

[j.o.s.h.1408]

i was really interested in that dell xps 17 but i have heard soo many horror stories on delivery taking nearly a month. i actually need one soon.