Should I return my Studio 1745 (C2D T9600) for the Studio 17 with I7 CPU?

Hi,

Right around black friday I ordered a Dell studio with the following specs listed below. It was $1778 with $649 off making an OTD price of $1212 shipped.

I see the I7 is out & I dont believe that was an option for the laptop either. There was also the 20% bing cashback deal which removes another 220 from the price (I dont quite get the math myself but hey).

I am looking at a Studio I7 with the same price but a 3rd year warranty vs my 2nd.

Here are the specs on what I bought & I have about 27 days to decide on what to do.

Really I dont know if its worth a few dollars to end up with potentially older technology on a brand new laptop:



Quantity Item Description

1 Studio 17 Laptop

1 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9600 (2.8GHz/1066Mhz FSB/6MB cache)

1 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz

1 Back-lit Keyboard

1 17.3” HD+ (900p) Bright LED Display with TrueLife™ and Camera

1 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

1 500GB SATA HDD (7200rpm)

1 Black Chainlink

1 Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English

1 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0

1 Slot Load Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo (Reads BD and Writes to DVD/CD)

1 High Definition Audio 2.0

1 Intel® WiFi Link 5100 802.11n Half Mini-Card

1 No Touch Software

1 No Productivity software pre-installed

1 McAfee SecurityCenter, 15-Months

1 56 Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)

1 2 Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis - Important Information

1 1Yr LoJack for Laptops Theft Protection

1 No Internal Mobile Broadband

1 WildTangent Games

1 Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Internal (2.1)

1 Intel Centrino 2 Label



$25 Promotional Gift Card with this option! - $0.00

Save $649 off this Dell Studio Laptop! - $0.00

Limited Time Offer: Blu-Ray upgrade included! - $0.00

$25 Promotional Gift Card with this option! - $0.00

Save $649 off this Dell Studio Laptop! - $649.00

Limited Time Offer: Blu-Ray upgrade included! - $0.00
Order Subtotal: $1,129.00
Shipping and Handling Total: $8.00

Shipping Discount: -$8.00

Tax Total: $83.27
Total Amount: $1,212.27

Thanks,
Rich

 

Studio i7 is a better system. You have faster CPU (well, depends on what you are doing) and better video card in ATI 4650. However, there are some issues with the system some users are experiencing, around faulty motherboard/CPU (I don't have that problem). Also, apparently the 900p screen is quite bad according to multiple users so I would recommend 1080p screen, which is excellent. That screen though is delayed to February on new orders.

 

So it sounds like I should consider sending this one back?

Is there a comparison for the T9600 vs an I7 mobile?

A search on this site doesnt have many results in terms of T9600 which makes me wonder if its worth it.

Thansk,
Rich

 

I would have thought the i7 would spank the T9600.

 

It does, it's a faster chip on 2 cores with Turbo and it can do 8 threads at once. It is more power hungry and runs hotter.