welcomedungeon
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So i'm buying a laptop in the ~60k range and have narrowed it down to Two choices:
1)Lenovo y510p (i5 version) : Ci5 4200M , Graphics card is probably Gt 755M though it might be 750M, FHD screen,Win8
FLIPKART LINK:lenovo-ideapad-y510p-59-389687-laptop-4th-gen-ci5-8gb-1tb-win8-2gb-graph
2)Dell inspiron 15R : Ci7 4500U, AMD Radeon HD 8850M GDDR5, 1366X768 (Truelife,NON-TOUCH) ,Win8.1
FLIPKART:dell-inspiron-15r-5537-laptop-4th-gen-ci7-8gb-1tb-win8-2gb-graph
Questions:
Q1)How does their gaming performance compare ? I have read that the i5 4200M and i7 4500U will offer comparable performance in gaming . In fact 4500U might suffer a bit due to lower clock speed . Is this correct ?
As for GPU's , it seems Gt 755m is better than 8850M by a tiny margin:
*www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1800&gid2=1485&compare=geforce-gt-755m-vs-radeon-hd-8850m-2gb-ddr5
User AbhMkh had posted some benchmarks of this exact Inspiron config :
thinkdigit.com/forum/laptops-netbooks/181484-dell-inspiron-15r-5537-review-benchmarks.html
If someone has similar benchmarks of the y510p configuration please post them
Q2) The inspiron ships with Win 8.1 while the y510p with 8. But that would be freely updatable to win8.1 without affecting the OneKEy recovery (since it is essentially an update )anyways right ? So O.S. should not be a factor ?
Q3)Can anyone who's recently bought the y510p tell its default partiton sizes ? I would probably want to dual boot the shipped windows with Fedora or Ubuntu but dont want to lose OKR during repartioning and couldnt find any convenient guide to repartition without losing OKR online.
Q4) The only reason I'm really considering the y510p at all is the FHD screen. (terrible battery life and touchpad are major drawbacks imho) .however i have read in some places that the 15.6 inch screen is too small for HD and leads to eye-strain due to small texts (and zooming is not that feasible in web browsing) ? Can someone comment their experience with this ?
Q5)Dell's customer service is well reputed. Can anyone comment on Lenovo's ? (Delhi)
1)Lenovo y510p (i5 version) : Ci5 4200M , Graphics card is probably Gt 755M though it might be 750M, FHD screen,Win8
FLIPKART LINK:lenovo-ideapad-y510p-59-389687-laptop-4th-gen-ci5-8gb-1tb-win8-2gb-graph
2)Dell inspiron 15R : Ci7 4500U, AMD Radeon HD 8850M GDDR5, 1366X768 (Truelife,NON-TOUCH) ,Win8.1
FLIPKART:dell-inspiron-15r-5537-laptop-4th-gen-ci7-8gb-1tb-win8-2gb-graph
Questions:
Q1)How does their gaming performance compare ? I have read that the i5 4200M and i7 4500U will offer comparable performance in gaming . In fact 4500U might suffer a bit due to lower clock speed . Is this correct ?
As for GPU's , it seems Gt 755m is better than 8850M by a tiny margin:
*www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1800&gid2=1485&compare=geforce-gt-755m-vs-radeon-hd-8850m-2gb-ddr5
User AbhMkh had posted some benchmarks of this exact Inspiron config :
thinkdigit.com/forum/laptops-netbooks/181484-dell-inspiron-15r-5537-review-benchmarks.html
If someone has similar benchmarks of the y510p configuration please post them
Q2) The inspiron ships with Win 8.1 while the y510p with 8. But that would be freely updatable to win8.1 without affecting the OneKEy recovery (since it is essentially an update )anyways right ? So O.S. should not be a factor ?
Q3)Can anyone who's recently bought the y510p tell its default partiton sizes ? I would probably want to dual boot the shipped windows with Fedora or Ubuntu but dont want to lose OKR during repartioning and couldnt find any convenient guide to repartition without losing OKR online.
Q4) The only reason I'm really considering the y510p at all is the FHD screen. (terrible battery life and touchpad are major drawbacks imho) .however i have read in some places that the 15.6 inch screen is too small for HD and leads to eye-strain due to small texts (and zooming is not that feasible in web browsing) ? Can someone comment their experience with this ?
Q5)Dell's customer service is well reputed. Can anyone comment on Lenovo's ? (Delhi)