Tuesday, May 13, 2008

No Research is Enough

They say sometimes even research is not enough.

I am planning to buy a laptop and somehow I'm hooked to DELL XPS laptop. I then researched a couple of websites (deals2buy and dell website) and did some comparison between 5 models of laptop and came up with the excel sheet below.

DELL XPS LAPTOP Laptop 1 Laptop 2 Laptop 3 Laptop 4 Laptop 5
Model M1530 M1330 M1330 M1330 M1530
Processor T7500 T5500 T5500 T7250 T7250
GHz 2.2 1.83 1.83 2 2
RAM(GB) 3 4 4 3 3
HDD(GB) 320 250 320 250 250
OS(VISTA) PREMIUM PREMIUM PREMIUM PREMIUM PREMIUM
SCREEN(") 15.4 15.4 13.3 13.3 15.4
Bluetooth(802.11) b/g b/g/n a/b/g/n b/g b/g
Webcam 2 MP 2 MP 2 MP 2 MP 2 MP
Graphics Card 128 MB NVIDIA 128 MB NVIDIA

128 MB NVIDIA
CD RW RW RW RW RW
DVD RW RW RW RW RW
Extras
Travel Mouse Biometric Biometric Biometric
Weight(Kgs) 2-3 2-3 <2 <2 2-3






Price($) 1058 1002 1003 1049 1049


Now I am confused between these 5 models as well. So I throw it open to you, what do you think would be better or rather as I intend to choose, best. Now the first question that you'll throw at me is what are my needs.

तो अब एक software engineer की कितनी जरूरतें होंगी, थोड़ा सा programming, थोडी सी movies, थोडी मस्ती, बस और क्या। Just that I don't want to end up with a slow or a very heavy laptop , to me they are as good as pieces of junk. हांलांकि मैं विस्टा नहीं लेना चाहता लेकिन मेरे पास कोई विकल्प उपलब्ध नहीं हैं।

आपको क्या लगता है कौन सा लैपटॉप सर्वश्रेष्ठ है (Which laptop do you think is the best)?