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    Question For Dell Laptop

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by burhangondal, Mar 12, 2010.

  1. burhangondal

    burhangondal Newbie

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    Hello,

    I am buying a Dell Inspiron 1545 with Intel core 2 P8700 processor rated at 2.53GHZ with 3MB of L2 cache, 4GB DDR2 800MHZ ram, 500GB hard drive rated at 5200RPM, ATI 4330 Radeon HD video card with 256MB of VRAM, and Sound blaster software enabled AUDIO Card. Also, there are some other stuff like Bluetooth and bluray drive etc etc. It all comes with WINDOWS 7 HOME PREMIUM WITH 64BIT. It has intel GM45 chipset which supports 1066 FSB and it also supports ddr 2 and ddr3....can i upgrade to ddr3 late on since intel states that it supports both? http://www.intel.com/products/notebook/chipsets/gm45/gm45-overview.htm

    Now the question, i m NOT going to play any GAMES on this laptop but i would watch alot of 1080P movies or u could say i would watch bluray movies. Is this laptop going to be sufficient enough to handle all high resolution videos? including YouTube's 1080P videos?....AGAIN, i m not playing any GAMES on it....should i get this laptop or should i get studio 1558? since i m not playing any games, do u think i m jus gonna waste more money on studio?....

    Inspiron is costing me $1065 and studio costing me $1400 with some higher specs....
     
    burhangondal, Mar 12, 2010
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  2. booboo12

    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

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    It should be fine with the Inspiron, it can handle 1080p video. :)
     
    booboo12, Mar 12, 2010
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  3. kapilk007

    kapilk007 Notebook Consultant

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    Old hardware but its more than sufficient for hd videos unless u have problems with blu ray drive which some ppl had when they bought dell laptops.
     
    kapilk007, Mar 13, 2010
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  4. tntomek

    tntomek Notebook Enthusiast

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    How did you price the Studio to be 1400?

    You should be able to get a nice i3/i5 based laptop for around $1000, no need for discrete video card.

    the i5's have build in HD video that has hardware decoding for blueray playback. Might want to consider this as an option, you will have a very quiet and cool notebook.
     
    tntomek, Mar 13, 2010
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  5. boomhower

    boomhower Notebook Evangelist

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    You do realize the screen can't display 1080P right? The most is can do is 720P. You are going to have to step up to a Studio to get a 1080P screen.
     
    boomhower, Mar 13, 2010
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