OK, so I am sorting out a PC for a colleague which will be doing a fair amount of design work involving inDesign and Acrobat etc.
The basic spec on both machines is quad core processor and 4gb of RAM, however, there are differences between the two specs, which I will outline below, spec A is £400 more than spec B..
Spec A:
Processor: Intel Xeon E5420 (2.50GHZ, 1333Mhz,2x6MB,Quad Core)
RAM: 4GB DDR2 667 Quad Channel FBD Memory (2x2GB)
Graphics: DUAL 256MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 570,Dual Monitor DVI or VGA Graphics Card(ELGA11)
HDD: 160GB (7,200 rpm) SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive with NCQ and 8MB DataBurst Cache
Spec B:
Processor: Intel® Processor Q6600 Quad Core™ (2.40GHz,1066Mhz FSB, 8MB cache)
RAM: 4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [4x1024]
Graphics: SINGLE 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT Card
HDD: Hard Drive 500GB Serial ATA non Raid (7200 Rpm)
There are other differences between the two machines, but nothing major in my opinion.
So, are the differences in the spec that large, and is spec A worth £400 more?
As I said, this is a PC which will be used for design programs, nothing too sophistocated, just CS3 really and some Office 2007. It will be used in an office environment.
Spec A is a Dell Precision Workstation, Spec B is a Dell XPS.
Your thoughts?!
Thanks!