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El Wayneo
07-02-11, 12:53
Hi

My main place of work is renewing our Dell contract (about 100 Pc's and monitors) so Dell have kindly given a 20% voucher to my Boss for upto 5 laptops on 1 purchase.

I'm in the lucky 5, i can also get it Vat free through the company as well.


Sooooooooo, i've been looking and there appear to be no real difference in the core i3 or i5 CPU's in laptops, just clock frequency.

You'd think the i5 would be a quad but its not.

Is that it or am i missing something???


Anyway i'm looking at a 17" XPS with the Core i5 480M and 1GB GT435M.

Supposed to be £700 but i can have it for £450 ish.


Is there anything better on there for around the same money?
NickCPC
07-02-11, 12:55
Nah, all of the i5s are duals atm. Sounds like a great deal - see if you can get the 3 year NBD warranty too - would be well worth it. SBs laptops were due to come out in the next fortnight or so for Dell IIRC, but obviously the Cougar Point bug has put that on hold lol.
El Wayneo
07-02-11, 12:58
Yeah i was going to wait but its a great deal.


I just spent money on a new laptop as well, but its an AMD Athlon II 320 with HD5145 graphics, pretty good but its a little sluggish.
Nathan94
07-02-11, 13:01
Get an alienware laptop haha :)
Simon.
07-02-11, 13:02
Main difference is i5s have turbo boost. Part of my new job is to replace alot of the old machines in our business, have been getting Dell business machines in and they are superb :) Mainly Latitude E6410s and E4310s.
Biodoid
07-02-11, 13:21
a few things on the i3 have been disabled, like turbo boost..

the laptop I got last week is an i3 and I only got it cos it was cheaper that most celeron and x2 lappys plus for £297 I couldn't resist though the price did drop by £20 on Thursday I think lol
El Wayneo
07-02-11, 13:40
Ahhh i didn't know about the turbo boost.

Good thing i went for the i5 then.


Just paid my boss he worked it out as £418 as the shipping is free as well.

Not bad for something thats £699 on the site.
joker3327
07-02-11, 14:01
Very nice little deal !! I dont suppose you could smuggle a few mates on that list lol...
gray.woodford
07-02-11, 14:03
bargain dude
El Wayneo
07-02-11, 14:07
Very happy.

But it looks like I have to wait 3 weeks for it though.
joker3327
07-02-11, 14:09
Acceptable for the cost saving though... lol..ask if you pay for next day will they do it lol..
El Wayneo
07-02-11, 14:14
It'll be on the shipment as the main order.
jason
07-02-11, 15:02
My wife's got an I5 laptop but it never impressed me Dell have a habit of installing loads of crap like that dock that take 40 seconds to load.
Popped in a SSD and the thing flies now.
El Wayneo
10-02-11, 14:27
My Boss has the order confirmation so hopefully it arrives soon.


just found out they take two HDD as well so i'll have to buy an SSD.


And and according to notebook forum the GPU is overclock albe lol.
NickCPC
10-02-11, 14:50
Sounds awesome!

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Solid+State+Drives/Crucial+RealSSD+C300+64GB+2.5%22+SATA+6Gb%2Fs+Soli d+State+Hard+Drive+?productId=40695

:P
jason
10-02-11, 15:11
Nice another post about that SSD and here i am trying to avoid buying it lol, I need to think about some thing else.
El Wayneo
10-02-11, 15:42
Sounds awesome!

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Solid+State+Drives/Crucial+RealSSD+C300+64GB+2.5%22+SATA+6Gb%2Fs+Soli d+State+Hard+Drive+?productId=40695

:P

Hopefully i can get one around the same price at the end of the month.

Expensive month this month.


Laptop, 3rd Anniversary, Valentines Day, two birthdays and renew the car insurance.