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Inspiron 1521 or 1520?

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10/12/07 at 10:35pm
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I'm in the market for a laptop. Primary use is for chatting/surfing/photoediting using photoshop.
The difference is the graphics card, which is a $90 upgrade for the 256mb and will perform alot better under heavy load and with games if I so desire. The AMD Turion only has one option, and I assume it's 128mb. Last thing to note is 2.2GHZ v.s 2.0GHZ difference. Will I notice the difference?

Which would you choose and why?
Thanks

Components

Inspiron 1521 - $1144 ($200 cheaper than the 1520)
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-64 (2.2GHz/1MB), English

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition, English

Jet Black Color with Matte Finish

Glossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280 x 800)

Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam

2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 Dimm

160G 5400RPM SATA HDD

ATI RADEON® Xpress1270 HyperMemory™

8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability


85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery


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Inspiron 1520 -$1244
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7250 (2MB cache/2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB), English

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition, English

Jet Black Color with Matte Finish

Glossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280 x 800)

Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam

2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 Dimm

160G 5400RPM SATA HDD

256MB NVIDIA ®GeForce™8600M GT

8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability

85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
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post #2 of 2
10/24/07 at 6:09pm
If you're still considering this, the answer is it depends... the 1521 has an integrated video card, meaning basically that it will perform absolutely abismally in any 3d game.

The 2.0GHz C2D will be faster than the 2.2 Turion. This would be noticible for encoding tasks, but not chating/browsing. If you're donig serious filtering that eating cpu time in photoshop, the intel will be faster... if you're cropping/ redeye/color levels/etc you'll be limited by the HD not the processor in either machine.

If you intend to ever game, do the 1520. If you're never going to play a 3d game and you're not doing video transcoding or really complex filters in PS, the Turion's a good buy.

Hope this reply helps before you've made your decision.
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