After spending a month or so researching on Laptops, spending hours discussing about laptops with cousin, checking out models wherever possible, I finally have bought a Laptop! It has been a great pleasure using it! I’m using my laptop right now to write this post! My fingertips love it!
It was about a month ago when I saw a Sony Vaio Laptop at a shop. I fell in love with it and wanted to get it for myself! My desktop badly needed an upgrade. So a thought came to my mind, “why don’t I just get a new Laptop instead?”. That’s when I decided to buy a laptop. Having made up my mind, now the big question was which one to choose! Though sony vaio was a love at first sight, later I learnt that it costs too much for just a decent configuration. So the big task was to research which model was the best and worth paying money! So I started searching on internet, reading reviews and stuff. Also whenever I got a chance I’d pay a visit to a computer shop and check out some models. This I’ve done around 3 times and it helped me to shortlist few models. What really helped the most was discussing with my cousin Nikhil about laptops. He has great knowledge on laptops and the discussions helped a great deal!
My requirements were: 15’’ screen, 4 GB of RAM, Intel core i3 or core i5 processor, Hard disk wasn’t a concern neither was a video card. (Later on I decided to go for a dedicated graphics though!).
Lenovo and Acer were ruled out in early stages. To be frank I didn’t like them from the start, I don’t know why! So following models were the shortlisted ones:
- Dell™ Inspiron 15R New Laptop (T540506IN8) with intel core i3
- Sony vaio VPCEB14EN
- Hp Pavilion DV6 (with core i3)
- Dell™ Inspiron 15R New Laptop (T540505IN8) with intel core i5
Out of these lots Dell had better specifications and I felt like it was worth spending every bit of money on it. I liked HP pavilion too, especially its outer design but the cost was little more than of Dell’s and had lesser config! Like Dell has 4 GB of RAM whereas HP has 2 GB but HP costs 5000 Rs more! I got good reviews on Dell Inspiron laptops, also one of my colleagues had bought a Dell studio laptop recently, I saw his laptop and liked it. So it was Dell!
Having decided on Dell, now I was confused whether to go for core i3 or i5 processor! I started reading about these processors, about the differences between them and technical stuffs too. I found out that the only difference between i3 and i5 other than clock rate difference is the turboboosting technology. I3 doesn’t have Turbo boost. Cost difference was around 4000 Rs. I felt i3 is good enough for my usage. Thus, I decided on Dell Inspiron 15R with core i3 processor.
Main specs:
- Intel Core i3, 350M – 2.26 GHz, 2 Cores, 4 Threads, 3 MB Cache
- 4 GB DDR3 RAM
- 320 GB Hard disk
- Video Card – ATI Radeon 512 MB
- 6 Cell Battery
- Windows 7 Home Premium
I ordered at Dell online. It took around 5 days to reach me!
How’s it: Well it’s been only 4 days since I started using the laptop. It has just been normal usage till now, to browse internet and to check out stuff on the laptop. I must say I’m loving each and every second of it. I’m glad I made the right decision to buy Dell!
- This model has a num pad, something which will be useful for sure.
- Sound is pretty decent; you can’t ask more from a laptop!
- Battery back-up is pretty decent too. Gives around 3 hours backup for continuous use.
- Has 4 USB ports – 2 on the backside and 1 each on left and right side.
- Screen is super. 15’’ screen and it’s crystal clear! Haven’t watched a video on it yet, will watch a movie when I get time! J
- Webcam is nice and it has Facial recognition software. So I don’t have to enter my password every time I want to login!
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