To Dell Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 (7348) I7 Broadwell, or not

bruhthakuga

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I am eyeballing the New Inspiron 13 7000 Series 2-in-1 Laptop but it seems that the Broadwell, though it is good, it's not bringing much more than the Hazwell served up. Sooo?

I am faced with a decision, do I get the old Haswell version for less or wait and hope that Intel release Skylake on time in June and that Dell repeat early adoption of Skylake and update this laptop with the new CPU?

That is the question
 
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Ever since Ivy Bridge CPUs Intel has been focused on decreasing power consumption while only improving CPU performance by a little, but they have done a good job of increasing the iGPU performance.

If battery life is very important and/or iGPU performance is important to you then get the new Inspiron 13. Otherwise get the Haswell version for less. Assuming mobile Skylake CPUs are officially announced in June, it generally takes at least 1 month more before laptops becomes available for purchase.

psycrow395

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hello there the real question here is are you a geek or are you not a geek? cause a geek would most likely want to have the latest maybe not the greatest but the latest i myself just purchased a laptop with a 4th gen I7 because i chose to go with a laptop that just came out and wont be outdated for awhile as opposed to going with the latest processor available my desktop pc has an fx8350 which is outdated now but i dont plan on upgrading because its still running everything fine running photoshop and premiere pro i have no problems certain games i got almost 100% cpu usage but that was with my old video card i have no problems now, so basically my point is if everything is working fine and your happy with what you got and it aint broke dont fix it or upgrade it. now figuretivley speaking the broadwell processors are supposed to be better than the haswells but the haswells are doing just fine and are a great processor way better than previous interations mainly thanks to ivy bridge plus the new 5th gen broadwells will still use ivy bridge and another note Broadwell will not completely replace the full range of CPUs from the previous microarchitecture (Haswell), as there will be no low-end desktop CPUs based on Broadwell. anyways sorry to rant so much hope this helps good luck on your choice
 
Ever since Ivy Bridge CPUs Intel has been focused on decreasing power consumption while only improving CPU performance by a little, but they have done a good job of increasing the iGPU performance.

If battery life is very important and/or iGPU performance is important to you then get the new Inspiron 13. Otherwise get the Haswell version for less. Assuming mobile Skylake CPUs are officially announced in June, it generally takes at least 1 month more before laptops becomes available for purchase.
 
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