New Dell XPS L521X (Ivy Bridge)

Price for macbooks have better retention but I'm decided on staying in the windows hemisphere

 

still not a fair comparison

retina is very fragile and it has no user replaceable parts making it a NECESSITY to pay $350 for the warranty...so even your "base" model would come to 2550 and you will still miss out on 16gb ram, you could buy your own SSD and still come out ahead....you can have the better processor whose real world boost won't be felt over the 3612

 

The one i compare to(dell xps 15 $1700) also has 8gb ram. I dont believe gorilla glass on the dell xps would be able to protect the screen if you drop the laptop. Agree that you have to pay more for warranty but for that they will replace you laptop if there us anything wrong with it. Also the base model mbpr comes with 256gb ssd whereas dell xps one doesn't. Also you missed out about better gpu on mbpr. I am not saying that mbpr is well priced, but dell xps is more overpriced for what it offers.

 

If you want to run Windows as your primary OS the Mac isn't a real option unless you like horrible battery life. The lack of Optimus support made me drop the Mac from my list of possible notebooks early on. It's a nice notebook, but it's not really designed to run Windows, except as a compatibility mode.

 

Agreed, there is no point comparing a Mac to a Windows PC if you want to run Windows as your primary OS.

Bad battery life, sketchy graphics drivers, poor gaming performance and an unfamiliar keyboard make any Mac a poor experience if Windows is your primary OS. Throw in how badly Windows (depending on the apps you use) handles font scaling and The Retina Macbook Pro is a pretty terrible experience.

 

I agree with you.

I was considering buying a MBP but the XPS 15 is still my top choice.

 

I'm not going to boot camp. I guess I'm just a Mac at heart. It stupid to boot camp. Otherwise, if you're running OSx on the mbpr it runs like a dream. You can thank dell for me over with this terrible experience. Bill has done a great job but as a company with billions of dollars I think they can afford some better quality assurance while testing new units. I like windows and I like Mac, but I'm loving Mac more. MBPR will be in my hands this weekend more than likely. And I'm getting the bottom model of it. I don't need a 512gb SSD when I can get a 256gb and then have my 500gb Seagate external HDD.


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Ancient Romans said: Omen Nomen. We can transform it in: Omen Nicknomen
You are just really Angry, Bambi

 

Thanks, definately looks like the cooling system is insufficient, they don't believe a BIOS update is going to relieve the throtteling issue either

 

In the past there was someone in this thread who had a very bad opinion of Asus, can't remember if it was for their support or for build quality. Do you remember who he was so I can contact him for further explanations? After reading Notebookcheck's review I'm seriously considering Asus N56VZ

 

Ok, then "Studio XPS"? And there are countless of others "gorgeous/superb" and so on words to add with characters "XPS" or without. But not just XPS, especially when supposedly new Inspiron line is now successor of old XPS (Bill, isnt it a little bit too messy? ). And so rename the new Inspiron then "Inspiron XPS"? I have seen old Inspirons in e-shops called "Inspiron XPS" ...
About Adamo - it wasnt a bad laptop, especially for "average user", who arent interested in gameing and similar activities and are atracted moustly with look and pricecheck (same with new XPS!). And they are majority of consumers. Look at Adamos score on notebookcheck.net (13" 86% and 15" 83%; for comparison L502X 84%). Why it was "flop" then? One of the reasons for certain price...
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i was tempted too, but then I saw a display model in store and even that one was hot. Reviews I've read say the same thing, it gets pretty warm it was much hotter than my XPS 15

 

If you really wanted to reuse previous name, that's defninitely the name that crossed my mind... But maybe they felt it was too soon to revive this name? Studio XPS would have made more sense to me! A new name could have been a good idea too, specially when launching a new kind of product. I would have given it the name of a fruit, like "guava" maybe .
I would have loved "orange", because then we could have said : "Stop comparing apples and oranges" hahaha

Yeah.. I remember seing Inspiron XPS..... Maybe that's the name they should have aimed for, with the new Inspirons SE...

Adamo... you got it right... the price made no sense, which is why I call it a flop. And it's also the "dangerous" game Dell is playing with the new XPS... Another parrallel between the two I guess. Although I believe this time the price is better justified (not completely) then it was with Adamo.

 

its between this and the old xps with RGB led display with br drive

i already got my config after calling dell for the l521x and i got one of the old xps on reserve i dont mind the thickness for better sound + screen + better wifi ..... but im still torn between the two

 

Guys...I don't give a s**t of the name, I just want the little b4st4rd to work properly! :laugh:

 

True, and I absolutely agree with you on that!

As long as you remember that "properly" dosen't mean what's expected, historically, of a "XPS" laptop! It's confusing a lot of people outside of here!

 

Again, like there already someone stated - "throw away" ODD and add second fan for better cooling (and add option for external ODD on Dell site). Its year 2012, physical discs are "history". Or mayby not, yet... . But online services are future and without physical medium...
I too was thinking of upgrading, but now its on "freezed" state, at least till rev.2
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Guys...it's a multimedia laptop....how can a laptop be "multimedia" if it doesn't have a blu-ray drive...and as I said before, one does not buy a <1 inch laptop to carry a bag of stuff with it...

 

This is one long whine-fest. One of the few threads on here that has to be constantly moderated due to poster reports. Enough is enough, don't you agree? Sure you do.

And don't think to bring this whine-fest to the owner's thread. Any complaints from owners about non-owners in that thread will result in infractions and bans.


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