Help!! Which laptop should I buy???

[westside7]

Alienware Area-51 M7700
Intel Pentium 4 Hyper Thread 550 3.4 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache Socket 775
Dual Layer 8X DVD+/-RW. 8x/4x/8x DVD+RW, 8x/4x/8x DVD-RW, 2.4x DVD+R DL, 24x/10x/24x CD-RW
120GB of storage. 1x 120 SATA Drive
17" WUXGA 1440 x 900 LCD
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 256MB Video Module
2GB RAM PC5300 DDR2 (2 x 1GB sticks)
Integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet & 56K V.92 Modem
Internal 802.11b/g WiFi Card
Integraded High-Definition Audio. 4 Speakers and 1 Subwoofer built into the casing
7-in-1 Media Card Reader, optimized for quick and easy file transfer with most peripheral devices.
Windows XP Home

or

Dell Inspiron 1720
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache)
CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)
160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
Anti-glare, widescreen 17.0 inch display (1440 x 900)
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Mini-card
High Definition Audio 2.0
Windows Vista™ Premium

 

[palaiyot]

I choose the one with Windows XP Home. Some laptops with pre installed vista can be a problem when you switch to winXP.

 

[nsbgerard]

The Inspiron 1720 has a better CPU and GFX card..

Depends really though..

What do you intend on doing with your laptop?

 

[NJNETSFAN]

To me it seems like a no brainer....Get the Dell 1720.

 

[soccerdude]

The Dell.

 

[chupacabra]

Dell one