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    Which Lenovo is equivalent to the Dell XPS-15/M3800?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by marc515, Jan 14, 2014.

  1. marc515

    marc515 Notebook Consultant

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    Which Lenovo is equivalent to the Dell XPS-15/M3800?

    I would prefer Win 8.1

    Thank you
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    On the consumer end, Lenovo has announced the Lenovo Y50 Notebooks as a opponent to the XPS 15: Lenovo Y50 Touch Laptop | 15.6" High-Performance Gaming Notebook PC | Lenovo (US) If you want a thinner design and more Consumer-orinented than the rather thick T540p/W540...after all, the XPS 15 is a Consumer notebook.

    Yes, since 2009 all ThinkPads have Mulitouch-TrackPads. The new ones work pretty good in this aspect.
     
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    AFAIK the XPS 15 and M3800 are exactly the same machine except for some drivers, the GPU and slightly different configuration options. Certainly build-wise they're identical, and IMO Lenovo doesn't really have a direct competitor. The W540 is a more powerful workstation, but is thicker and heavier. The T540p is thicker, heavier and has a far weaker GPU option. Both also have full keyboards with numpads, which I find slightly off-putting. The Y50 looks interesting, but it's designed as a gaming machine first and foremost from what I can tell.

    I was seriously considering the Dell options, but ended up getting a quad-core T440p mainly because of price (about 30% cheaper in my case) but also because it offers a real dock and the fact that the Lenovo IPS/AHVA options for FHD display were better than Dell's TN-based FHD panel. If I had an additional $1000, however, I would probably have bought a QHD, dual-drive M3800.
     
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    You should release that the M3800 meets some MIL-SPEC tests but the XPS 15 doesn't meet any. I wonder why?
     
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    DELL 15.6" M3800 starts at 4.1 pounds.
    The 2013 Samsung 15.6" inch Series 9 starts at 3.5 pounds, and 2014 touch version starts at 4.1 pounds.

    The 15.6" Lenovo T540p and W540 starts at 5.5 pounds.

    Lenovo needs a 15.6" T540S, 4 pounds, 3K IPS panel.
    Basically combine the T440S and the T540P 3k IPS panel.
    (and if you give me 400 nits, I'll take 2!)
     
    zordex, Jan 15, 2014
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