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    Old Dell vs New Dell

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by crowbar, Mar 24, 2009.

  1. crowbar

    crowbar Notebook Geek

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    My current spec laptop is as follows,

    Dell Inspiron 6400
    Intel Duo Core T2060 1.60GHz
    2 Gig Ram
    250 Gig HDD
    ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
    DVD/RW
    WIFI B/G
    Bluetooth
    Windows Vista Home Premium

    and I'm currently awaiting the delivery of the following,

    Dell XPS M1530
    Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (2.0Ghz, 2Mb, 800Mhz)
    4 Gig Ram
    500 Gig HDD
    Nvidia GeForce GO 8600M GT 256MB
    DVD/RW
    WIFI B/G
    Bluetooth
    Windows Vista Home Premium


    I am very happy with my pending new laptop's spec and looking forward to it coming home, however a mate of mine seems rather smug in telling me that I won't actually notice a great deal of difference in the spec and performance. Is he winding me up?

    I know my new laptop isn't the fastest or best out there, but it seems better than what I had.
     
    crowbar, Mar 24, 2009
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  2. Clutch

    Clutch cute and cuddly boys

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    I will be faster dont worry :)
     
    Clutch, Mar 24, 2009
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  3. yomamasfavourite

    yomamasfavourite Notebook Evangelist

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    He must be, that or he doesn't really know what he's talking about.
    Though it does depend on what you use the laptop for.
    In games and other sorts of intensive applications you should see a very big improvement.
     
    yomamasfavourite, Mar 24, 2009
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  4. crowbar

    crowbar Notebook Geek

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    I play the occasional game. I tend to use my laptop primarily for the internet and emails, but also spend a lot of time on Adobe CS4 and several video editing suites. I presume that in terms of the internet there'll not be much difference, but I'm hoping the other areas will see an improvement.
     
    crowbar, Mar 24, 2009
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  5. Cin'

    Cin' Anathema

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    Grat's on your order, first of all! :D

    And, you will really notice a difference..The 1530 is a great lappy. :D It stands up to what you put forth it to do! (Well, at least for me)!

    To me, it kinda like the Energizer Bunny..it keeps going and going and....yeah..you get the jist!

    Cin ;) :)
     
    Cin', Mar 24, 2009
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  6. crowbar

    crowbar Notebook Geek

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    I've had it a couple of days now and it's certainly a lot faster than the one it's replacing as suggested. However upon arrival I noticed there were several issues with crashing services and applications, it also took a while to load and do certain tasks.

    One quick reformat later, followed by loading on only essential drivers and no bloatware and I immediately noticed a HUGE difference! I also replaced that McAfee rubbish with ESET's security suite 4 and again, huge difference.

    I'm now at the stage of loading on different applications and setting out the partitions (500 gig drive partitioned in to a smaller OS and 2 larger partitions).

    So far I am very impressed and can certainly notice the difference.
     
    crowbar, Mar 28, 2009
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