TomA Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Hi I am considering buying a new laptop, to use mainly for personal and semi-professional 3Ds Max, Vray and Photoshop static image production, as well as watching movies on, for around £1000, and I am considering buying this Dell machine: http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=n00x7m06&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&model_id=xps-l702x I currently have a 5 year old Dell laptop with 15" screen, duo-core processor with 2gb RAM, which I have been happy with, and I also have an iPad 2 for surfing the net and messing around on, and I have a separate desktop at work. I would rather not buy a Desktop and don't really have the space for one but part of me knows it is the best thing to do. Any advice would be welcome. Cheers Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erkutacar Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 u should know ive seen a couple of dell laptop screens having a 1 pix red line across the whole screen.. and the damage is permenant.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambros Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 i7 is great, 8 GB of RAM is great too, the graphics card is just ok, and the screen resolution of 1600x900 at 17'' could be better. But it sounds good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomA Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 Thanks for your replies, and point noted about a red line across screens, but with the warranty and the screen being replaceable I think it is a risk worth taking. Cheers Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erkutacar Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 correction: that happens if u buy online.. coz online products r not tested for bad pixels... but usually buying online is cheaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Dell does less testing on products they sell on their web store than on products they distribute to stores? I'd find that very odd. But anyway. I've never made a secret of the fact that I can't stand Dell laptops. From the one I had that broke in the same place four times (after having the part replaced each time) because the screen hinge contained structural aluminum foil (I am not making that up) to the Precision laptops that everybody at my school got that were based on the most cheaply made plastic chassis you've ever seen and made you remove the keyboard to get at the RAM I have never been impressed by their build quality. But aside from that, and it being big an heavy (1.5" thick, 7.8 pounds) the only obvious problem I see is that 1600x900 is low resolution in a 17" screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noise Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 The only thing I would suggest is to try and get infront of one of these laptops in a shop if possible and try one of your images on it to see if the resolution is good enough. My Dell laptop (which was about £600 3 years ago) which has a much lower spec than the one you are looking at clips the whites quite a bit. Although I didn't buy this laptop for doing work related graphics, it wasn't long before I was opening psd files and looking at work images on it. Personally I would suggest a desktop - laptops don't come close when doing the type of work we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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