dell laptop comparison

i customized two notebooks on dells site - the Inspiron 710m and the XPS M140
prices:
m140: $1522
710m: 2157 - 733 (30%+ sale) = $1423

and i customized them to be pretty much the same as far as components:
BOTH - Intel® Pentium® M Processor 755 (2.0GHz)
M140 - 1GB Shared DDR2 SDRAM 2 Dimms
710m - 1GB DDR SDRAM 2 Dimms
BOTH - 100 GB HD
BOTH - DVD burner
BOTH - Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)
M140 - bluetooth wireless

so essentially the differences are the screen sizes, the RAM, and the M140 has bluetooth wireless...

what i dont understand is why the 710m is so much more expensive maybe because its a newer model and more compact?

and on the eighth of april, dell is supposed to have a sale on mobile gaming, so maybe the M140 will be even cheaper...

some links to see the prices yourself:
M140 710m

but anyway whats the better deal?

**another question, would there be much performance increase in a dual core Inspiron E1705?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

thanks for a quick response, i've pretty much ruled out the 710m now, because 12 inches is small and thats not what i want to pay for really...

so now ive just got to decide on the M140 or the Inspiron E1705, which again are roughly the same price, and the Inspiron being a little better in components

i guess its just a battle between the sizes of the laptops

There's nowhere I can't reach.

yeah i already got a desktop that can handle most of the recent games, ie ive played fear and WoW on it, so it's fine for games, im mostly wanting a laptop for portability, and yeah ill be trasnferring to a major university in the fall, and im a computer science major, so i need a computer with me at all times

thanks for the feedback, really has helped me

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Originally Posted by Cless

Well, if your interest is portability and you've already got a desktop for games, why are you even considering anything larger than 12"? If you're after portability, go with the smallest thing you can afford that still maintains the level of functionality you need to have on the road. If you're going to be using it mainly for notetaking/web-browsing and that sort of thing, I don't see where anything over 12" is even necessary. Trust me, if you're going to be carrying it everywhere, every inch and pound you can shed is one your back will thank you for later.

i'll really take that into consideration, its just that i do want to do a little more than just word-processing/webbrowsing, ill be watching video, viewing pics, doing some photoshop, etc. so i'll need a little bit of power, i just have to decide if i want to be doing all that on a little 12 inch screen...
and im going to buy from dell, so its down to the 710m and the xps m140, and from reviews i've read the xps is so much better when it comes to specs, the 710 is just a smaller screen (but only buy 2 inches and it has older components)
the 710m is 34% off for 2 more days (i can get a $2200 for $1500), the XPS is 10% of two more days, so thats how long i have to decide...

tomorrow ill be at best buy playing with laptops

How ya doing, buddy?

just ordered the dell xps m140
i dont have the patience to wait for a dual core xps

I was speaking idiomatically.

yeah its a good thing they didn't release a duo core for the m140, or i would have been really mad

and yeah i was a little upset on the limitations of the vidcard in the m140, but im not much of a gamer, so its all ok

also, yeah dell is expensive, when there are no rebates, find some coupons online, theres almost always some out, when i was buying my m140, the inspirion 170m was over 34% off,

dell is known to be expensive, but also known to have some really good deals

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