Which one to choose!!!!!!!!!!dell or sony!!1

[moitradee]

i am in real dilemma to go for sony or dell for laptops!!! both hv great options and since i hv a low budget of around $600,so which brand i shud prefer,sony e-series or dell inspiron!!!! i need a laptop with good graphics,lesser heating problem and of all it should require least maintenance...please help asap!!!

 

[vibrantxxninjas]

what will you be using the laptop for? gaming? video editing? browsing the web?

 

[mobrocket]

so brand wise u are asking which is better?

personally, i would say the are equal

if u provide the model numbers or specs of the laptops we can be more helpful

 

[moitradee]

YOU ALL ASKED FOR SELECTED MODELS, THEN FOR MY PRICE RANGE I HAVE SELECTED THESE TWO MODELS FROM DELL AND SONY.
DELL15R(N5050)
Processor 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i3-2350M processor (2.30 GHz, 1333, 3M cache)
Operating System Windows® 7 Home Basic SP1 64bit (English)
Display 15.6" HD WLED True-Life (1366x768)
Memory3 2GB3 DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz
Hard Drive 500GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Video Card Intel® HD Graphics 3000
SONY E-SERIES(VPCE)-VPCEH35EN/W
Operating System
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Basic with Service Pack 1 64bit (English Version)
Architecture
Processor Name Intel® Core™ i3-2350M Processor 2.30 GHz*1
Chipset Intel® HM65 Express Chipset
Cache Memory 3 MB (L3 Cache)
Main Memory
Pre-installed/Max 2 GB (2 GB (SO-DIMM) x 1) DDR3 SDRAM*2 (upgradeable up to 8 GB*3)
SO-DIMM slots DDR3 SO-DIMM slots (Unused Memory slot 1)
Memory Speed 1333 MT/s
Hard Disk Drive 320 GB*4 (Serial ATA, 5400 rpm)
Graphics
Graphics Accelerator NVIDIA® GeForce® 410M GPU
Dedicated Video Memory 512 MB DDR3
Display
Type 15.5 (39.37 cms) wide (WXGA: 1366 x 768) TFT colour display (VAIO Display, LED backlight).
OVERALL BOTH HAVE ALMOST SAME SPECS, BUT, THERE ARE TWO BIG DILEMMA'S I'M FACING ARE-
1. AS I'M A LITTLE BIT GAME FREAK AND SONY'S GIVEN MODEL HAS A NVIDIA® GeForce® 410M GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR SO IT ATTRACTS ME,BUT WITH LESS STORAGE OF 320GB,
ON THE OTHER SIDE DELL GIVES A LARGER STORAGE CAPACITY OF 500GB BUT INTEL HD GRAPHICS.
2. SECONDLY, I'M LITTLE CONFUSED OVER THE PACKAGE GIVEN BY DELL IN COMPARISION TO SONY,I MEAN IS IT WORTH GOING TOWARDS DELL,I FEAR IF DELL TURNS OUT TO BE BUNDLE OF CHEAP THINGS!!!
THE MODELS ARE----

 

[moitradee]

ONE MORE THING--
please diffrentiate btw 2nd GEN i3 and the normal i3,coz dell has got the newer one!!!!

 

[americanbrian]

http/www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Inspiron-17R-7110-Laptop-Intel-i5-2430M-1GB-GeForce-GT525-6GB-DDR3-640GB-/120916130582?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item1c2729bb16

this is a "refurb" that will beat everything that those have hands down for the same budget. It has 1 yr warranty, better cpu, better hard drive, more ram, larger screen.

You can find similar 15 inch ones for the same rough figure.... Search ebay in laptops section for gt 525m, include descriptions and rank by price. Several refurb like new avaiable.

The gt 525m is a GOOD gpu. Can play crysis 2 at high details... see notebookcheck benchmarks for the gpu's The gt 410m is not much better than the HD3000, and both suck compared to the gt 525m

 

[americanbrian]

http/www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-NP-RC512-S01-15-3-HD-Quad-Core-i7-2630M-2GHz-6GB-750GB-BLU-RAY-4G-WIMAX-/360464480714?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item53ed5b79ca

This is stunning value if you can stretch the extra $40....

 

[dextermat]

I would get an asus as those 2 brands are not trustworthy

 

[Guest]

ONE MORE THING--
please diffrentiate btw 2nd GEN i3 and the normal i3,coz dell has got the newer one!!!!

both have the SAME cpu i3-2350M.

now could you knidly LINK both model since the "cut and paste" method made the amount of RAM indistinguishable
Memory3 2GB3 DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz

wth is that ? 6 gigs?!?!?

 

[moitradee]

@looniam
both have same RAM 2gb DDR3!!

 

[moitradee]

EBAY SUCKS, I WOULD PREFER A RETAILER OR A STANTARD SHOWROOM FOR BUYING MY LAPPY!!!
PLEASE DIFFRENTIATE AND SUGGEST BETWEEN THE TWO OR ANY OR MODEL FROM SONY AND DELL ONLY???
PLZZ PLZZZ PLZZZZ CONSIDER THE POINTS THAT I HAVE ASKED AND MENTIONED!!!

 

[mightymaxio]

None of those are very good for graphics. They would suck at any kind of gaming unless your playing farmville.

 

[moitradee]

HMM!!!!!!!!! but suggest me a lappy for the given price range!!! i.e. $600!!

 

[moitradee]

is is worth giving more bucks for the sony one or dell is good??

 

[moitradee]

what will you be using the laptop for? gaming? video editing? browsing the web?

a bit of gaming and normal browsing and entertainment purpose!!

 

[Guest]

@looniam
both have same RAM 2gb DDR3!!

whoa that is seriously LOW

and it seems the difference is the sony has 410M graphics, here is a description with some benchmarks.
http/www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-410M.43891.0.html
spoiler: it is just 9% better than hd 3000 . . .
http/www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-3000.37948.0.html
actually notebookcheck.net might be a good resource for you right now.

 

[moitradee]

hmm INTEL HD3000 and GeForce 410M are almost same over performance but don't u think a dedicated graphics accelerator is better??
and suggest me which worth buying between the two models or any other??

 

[mightymaxio]

Well for 600$ your not going to get very much in terms of performance in games. For that you would need at least 1000$ unless you buy a black friday laptop from Walmart for example.

 

[moitradee]

datswhy i want to go for sony e series and dell inspiron!!! these models are under ma range, so plz advice me a good model between the two??

 

[Guest]

to be honest, as others have said this is not something to game on; even playing diablo3 will be horrible at the lowest details.
even though a dedicated graphics is better, at this level and the difference, it really isn't a deal breaker.
to ME what is a deal breaker is the hard drive space; 500GBs vs. 320GBs.

the cpu is the same. the graphics is barely different. RAM is the same. so hard drive space is what i'd look at for more room for applications, movies and music.