Gaming Laptop. Dell XPS?

Hey guys!

Well, I'm looking into a gaming laptop. So I've started some researching and I've come to that with my max budget lieing around $1000, more or less, Dell XPS seems to be a good choice.

It should be able to run games such as Need For Speed, Call of Duty ( 4,5,6 ), Left 4 Dead and look-a-likes at a high frame rate and Medium - High Graphics.

No, I am not a professional gamer and I play maybe 2 hours on a week day and more on a weekend day and use it also for school work - Word, Excel etc.

There are two types I've been mainly looking into, the Dell XPS Studio 15 and the Dell XPS Studio 16.

The main factor that I'm comparing these two is the Price Factor.

Dell Studio 15 comes at the lowest price of $699 and at the price of $1149 fully upgraded

Dell Studio 16 comes at the lowest price of $949 and at the max of my budget $1099.

Please give me some advice in which gaming laptop to buy,

Thanks!

Leonard

P.S. here are the links

--> Studio 15http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/notebooks/laptop-studio-1555/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-studio-1555&s=dhs&cs=19&redirect=1

--> Studio 16http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-studio-xps-16?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19

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the preselect number 3 or 4 offer the most well rounded options tbh.

could also drop the cpu to a dual core to save a little cash just DONT CHANGE THE VIDEO CHIPSET FROM AN HD 4570

Thank you very much,

I see the difference of the 2 laptops are $150.

The differences are instead of aIntel® Core™ i3-330M 2.13GHz (3M cache) you get aIntel® Core™ i5-520M 2.40GHz (2.93Ghz Turbo Mode, 3M cache) and

for the cheaper one you even get a bigger harddrive, 500GB instead of 320GB ( wtf :| ).

Would you advice the more expensive build instead of the cheaper one, comparing it with the price?

Thanks,

Leonard

Thank you very much,

I see the difference of the 2 laptops are $150.

The differences are instead of aIntel® Core™ i3-330M 2.13GHz (3M cache) you get aIntel® Core™ i5-520M 2.40GHz (2.93Ghz Turbo Mode, 3M cache) and

for the cheaper one you even get a bigger harddrive, 500GB instead of 320GB ( wtf :| ).

Would you advice the more expensive build instead of the cheaper one, comparing it with the price?

Thanks,

Leonard

coolboy609

The way I see it, a CPU for a laptop can't be changed later on, however external storage space can be bought. Therefore the one with the better processor, however at a $150 difference, I really don't know. Probably not worth it if those are the only two differences.polarwrath11

Okay thanks a lot.

Indeed those two are the only differences but I'm still not sure.I'll give it a think :)

Thanks a lot to everyone who helped :D

Leonard

[QUOTE="polarwrath11"]

The way I see it, a CPU for a laptop can't be changed later on, however external storage space can be bought. Therefore the one with the better processor, however at a $150 difference, I really don't know. Probably not worth it if those are the only two differences.coolboy609

Okay thanks a lot.

Indeed those two are the only differences but I'm still not sure.I'll give it a think :)

Thanks a lot to everyone who helped :D

Leonard