Question:
Help me Decide!
Hey, I am in disparate need of a laptop very soon and i need help choosing which one is better for these questions:
1. Which video card is better?
2. Which is better for gaming (mainly World of Warcraft)
3. Which is the best for its price, quality, and what you get
Here they are:
Hp Pavilion Dv6000z:
o Genuine Windows XP Media Center
o Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor T5500 (1.66 GHz)
o 14.1inch WXGA Brightview Widescreen
o 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7400
o Hp Imprint finish, microphone, webcam
o 2GB DDR2 SDRAM
o 100GB 5400 rpm
o DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
o Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network w/Bluetooth
o 6 Cell Lithium Battery
o Microsoft Work Suite 2006 with Word
Total Cost Canadian: $1365.03
or:
Dell Inspiron 1501
o AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 (1.8GHz/1MB)
o Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
o Express Upgrade to Windows Vista Home Basic from XP Home
o FREE Upgrade to 15.4” Widescreen XGA+ display with TrueLife
o 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 DIMM
o 80GB Hard Drive
o 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
o ATI RADEON® Xpress1150 with 256MB HyperMemory™
o 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
o Accessories
o Dell Wireless 1490 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps)
o Integrated Audio
For: $1,169 Canadian
Thanks
Answer:
Re: Help me Decide!
The dv6000z has a real video card and will play WoW much more smoothly than the integrated ATi card. Bigger hard drive,C2D benchmarks better than the Turion--in real life this won't really make much difference. The HP will have a better build quality.
I would buy the HP.
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Everything in the HP wins over its Dell counterpart in this case: CPU, graphics card, and all the rest. I would suggest a 7,200-rpm hard drive, though: it will make substantial difference in everyday applications.
C.
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the dell 1501 isnt the right comparison for the dv6000. if you wanted to compare a dell to a dv6000 it would be the 6400/e1505.
p.s.: i thought we cant get the dv6000 with those specs here in canada, and hp.com doesnt ship to canada either
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dang it... looks like im stuck with the dell then... Anyway how well will the dell run WoW with what i said?
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What is your budget? For a little more than the price of the HP above, there are more powerful options available.
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gamerz would you mind filling out a faq so that we know exactly what you want and then we can tell you if there are better notebooks than the ones you found
ps: chris, isnt that Atticus Finch from the To Kill A Mockingbird movie??? MY GOD I THINK IT IS! boy he's one powerful character, not to mention a good person too. my english class just finished watching the movie a few weeks ago and now we are finished the book...they are both excellent...you guys should check em out. IMO i thought that the book was waaaay better than the movie...lol, i better stop now... :(:(:(:(:(:(:(
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Get the HP. I would just stay away from e1501. It seems like a real rip off - Dells way of selling a cheap product at a not-that-discounted-rate.
Anyway, the new HP notebooks are more aesthetic. You seem to be getting a bigger hard drive, too.
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yes but hp doesn't ship to canada. Any other good laptops that ship to canada and are pretty cheap ($1100 Canadain) and have good performance while playing games like WoW?
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HP itself doesn't ship to Canada, but there are resellers who do. None of these seems to have a good reputation, though. Dell may be the only option. I would suggest a Macbook if it weren't for the gaming requirement.
C.