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    Need help to choose between Dell, HP, Thinkpad

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Miriad, Jan 6, 2010.

  1. Miriad

    Miriad Notebook Guru

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    Hello everyone! Need your help to choose between HP Elite 15,4 display; Thinkpad W510 (which was announced recently); and Dell M6500.
    Bellow is the spec and price for DELL M6500, could you help me out by comparing the spec price and overall experience/knowledge with HP and Thinkpad, as both HP and Thinkpad new models just being announced, I don't know about the prices but how much would you think it would cost.
    Do I get from dell better deal in terms of price and spec ? Is that a good laptop or should i wait for Thinkpad or HP prices and availability ?

    Price: £3,142
    Mobile Precision M6500 Silver Base

    Silver with RGB LED LCD Back Cover
    Integrated 2 Mega Pixel Camera With Microphone for Silver Base
    No Contactless Smart Card
    One® Intel™ Core i7-820QM(1.73GHz. 8MB.Quad Core)
    No Fingerprint Reader
    8X DVD+/-RW Drive Slot Load no software for N-Series
    EMEA Intel Pro Wireless 5300 (802.11 a/g/ Draft-n 3x3) Mini Card
    English Genuine Windows® 7 Professional (64Bit OS)
    17in Widescreen WUXGA (1920x1200) Silver with RGB Led LCD Panel
    Primary 9-cell 90W/HR Battery for Silver LCD Panel
    500GB Serial ATA (7200RPM) (Free fall sensor)
    500GB SATA (7200 rpm) Hard Drive (Free Fall Sensor)
    1GB nVIDIA FX3800M (with 1GB dedicated memory)
    8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel (4x2GB)
    EMEA Dell® Wireless 365 2.1 Bluetooth™

    Thank you
     
    Miriad, Jan 6, 2010
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  2. Paul386

    Paul386 Notebook Evangelist

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    Only difference I see between that and the W510 is a huge difference in price (W510 favor), graphics card (M6500 favor), aspect ratios (M6500 favor), screen size and laptop size (depends on your application whose favor that is in).
     
    Paul386, Jan 6, 2010
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