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    What do you guys think of this laptop? (Dell Studio 17)

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    Edited By Legend

    It's a Dell Studio 17 laptop with a Touch Screen and a Blue-Ray Rewritable Drive. I'm not sure if the graphics card is any good for gaming, though according to Notebookcheck.net it will run all current games on medium settings.
    Here are the specs:
     
        Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Mobile Processor (1.6GHz, turbo up to 2.8GHz, 6MB L3 Cache)

        4096MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x2048]

        1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650

        500GB (7,200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive

        Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit

        Blu-Ray Disc (BDRW) Rewritable Drive (BD Read & Write) drive including software

        Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g)

        Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Module

        Primary 9-cell 85 WHr Lithium Ion battery

        2.0 Mega pixel Integrated Web Camera

        17.3” High Definition+ (1600x900) Multi Touch LED with TL

        90W AC Adaptor
     
    What do you guys think?

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    #1  Edited By Legend

    It's a Dell Studio 17 laptop with a Touch Screen and a Blue-Ray Rewritable Drive. I'm not sure if the graphics card is any good for gaming, though according to Notebookcheck.net it will run all current games on medium settings.
    Here are the specs:
     
        Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Mobile Processor (1.6GHz, turbo up to 2.8GHz, 6MB L3 Cache)

        4096MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x2048]

        1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650

        500GB (7,200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive

        Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit

        Blu-Ray Disc (BDRW) Rewritable Drive (BD Read & Write) drive including software

        Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g)

        Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Module

        Primary 9-cell 85 WHr Lithium Ion battery

        2.0 Mega pixel Integrated Web Camera

        17.3” High Definition+ (1600x900) Multi Touch LED with TL

        90W AC Adaptor
     
    What do you guys think?

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    #2  Edited By Geno

    Price?

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    Seems pretty decent, but yeah, how much does it run?

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    #4  Edited By blaze503

    i can tell you because I HAVE ONE, bought it recently for gaming on a pc and it is great. Your processor looks a bit slower then mine but yeah it is a fantastic laptop, really great to use. I can run Mass Effect 2 full settings and Bad Company 2 full high settings. It can even run Crysis on High which for a laptop is great. If you want a laptop for gaming i give it a thumbs up myself. (The keyboard and screen are also really nice).
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    #5  Edited By Legend
    @Geno:@TripMasterMunky: It costs around $1300.
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    #6  Edited By Legend
    @blaze503: Can you post the specs of your laptop here, so I can compare the two? I wasn't expecting the Radeon HD 4650 to be able to run Crysis on high settings. How are the Touch Screen controls? Are they as good as the iPhone?
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    #7  Edited By blaze503
    @Legend:
    Sorry i didn't see the touch screen thing, i didn't get that model. I got the non-touch version.  
     
    My specs otherwise are: 
    Model : Studio 1745 
    Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.20 GHz 
    RAM: 4.00GB 
    Windows 7 64 bit 
    17 Inch HD screen at 1600x900 resolution 
    1GB ATI radeon HD 4650 
    320 GB hard drive (smaller then yours but was big enough for me) 
     
    Pretty much the same as your and the battery life on balanced mode is 3hrs odd and 1-2 on high performance.
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    #8  Edited By Driadon

    That's a beast of a laptop, and a hell of a price. I say go for it.

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    #9  Edited By Legend

    I ended up buying this. It's a pretty good laptop, and I was able to run Star Trek Online and Borderlands on the highest settings. Bluray movies look really good on the 17 inch screen, and the touchscreen is pretty awesome when playing STO as I can perform actions by clicking my action bar icons on screen with no need for a mouse. However, it's a bit heavy and the graphics card doesn't support DirectX 11. Overall, I give it 8.5/10 (or 4 out of 5 Giant Bomb stars).

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    #10  Edited By Osaladin

    If you where willing to spend that much, you should have gotten the Asus G73.

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    #11  Edited By Legend
    @Osaladin said:

    " If you where willing to spend that much, you should have gotten the Asus G73. "

    I'm currently living in the UK, and the laptop you mentioned costs 1700 pounds here (that's around $2,630). So, yeah.
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    #12  Edited By shirogane

    Hmm, touchscreen, for 1300. With those specs. Seems decent. Star Trek Online with touchscreen sounds pretty awesome. 
     
    Personally though, any laptop over 15" is too big for me. I might as well get a desktop. I'm just too lazy to carry it around.

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