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    My Dell rant..

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by FiremanMike, Sep 9, 2010.

  1. FiremanMike

    FiremanMike Notebook Enthusiast

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    Apparently sometime between today and last Sunday, they took the Studio line off their business side. I have 5k in business credit and was going to settle for one, but not my options are the Inspiron 14r or an Alienware.. Seriously the Alienware is more business oriented than the Studio?!

    So I looked over at alienware and saw there was an 11x with an i5 processor which caught my eye!! Then I looked further and saw that it was an i5 processor at like 1ghz.. are you freakin kidding me??!

    While I'm ranting, are they ever going to put a nice video card in a smaller box that also has a nice processor?!

    I'm committed to 2.0ghz +, I want to play wow and sc which are processor heavy and not good at multiple processors (from what I've been told)
     
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    If I had $5K of business credit I think I'd be looking at the Latitude or Precision models with a high end graphics card if I wanted to do gaming. Any reason you're focusing on the consumer laptops in the business section?
     
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  3. FiremanMike

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    I used to run a business and had a dell business credit line... at the time it was the onlly way to get windows xp as opposed to vista...
     
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    +1 precision. :)
     
    anodize, Sep 9, 2010
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    Precision sure is a good machine, but way overpriced for what it is..

    Can anyone tell me about that quadro fx 1800m?
     
    FiremanMike, Sep 9, 2010
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    my mistake, quadro fx 880m

    been looking at too many different numbers...
     
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    I just found an m11x on the Dell refurbished site with an INTEL CORE i5 520M 2.4GHz!!!!!! is this an error or SWEET.
     
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    The i7 is still a 1.2 ghz, still not super awesome for a lot of games and pricey.. That said this thing only comes with 2gb ram and no optical drive.. m11x is "meh" to me.. I love the size, but the m11x and the m4500, while both powerhouse computers, are totally overpriced..
     
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    it comes with up to 8GB's.
     
    Nick, Sep 9, 2010
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