Choosing the right laptop for my friend

                       Last week i was looking out for a laptop for my friend. I had been instructed to check out for a notebook that cost below 50,000/-. He suggested me to checkout for a Dell or Vaio. The brand name is nowadays a big factor for any product and first word like 'dell' or 'vaio' from consumer is nothing because of this brand effect. He was looking for a professional + entertainment box. So I started checking out a right one for him.

I just compared the dell and vaio for him and felt that a dell will solve his need. Vaio is little bit costlier than dell, also you feel a difference in  configurations of vaio and dell at the same price. Dell laptops provides better hardware configuration than the Sony laptops @ same price range. Eventhough competition is live in the market, dells are being sold out more for the average customer, you can feel this if you talk to sum guys in the retail shops in the Ernakulam city.  I thinkthis may be due to  two  reasons from my  viewpoint. Thefirst reason i felts is the decent mix of hardware configuration @ moderate price in dells laptop  Average customers prefers laptops at price ranging from 35,000/- to 50,000/-. And the dells Inspiron series is a nice option at this price range providing a minimum combination of Intel's core i3 processor | 3gb ram | 1 gb graphics| ~300 GB HDD.

The secondreason may be the brand name Dell have built up so far. They were in the main stream of the market for the past years by providing products having significant difference in performance and quality than the cheaper counterparts from lenovo, acer etc... The cheaper ones usually ends up early due to battery problems or heating problems etc. From my personal experience also, dell seems to be nice notebook due to its perfomnce, ergonomics, battery life and support with the main stream operatng systems like windows, ubuntu, fedora etc... But initially there were some problems with availability service / repair. But the opening up of  new service centers will cover this problem to a great extent.

My first decision was to checkout for the XPS15 on dell's website. Its cool and handy, Impressedat its pretty appearence, they have come up with an appealing architecture for  hinges of the XPS. It may cost near 50k, since the price given is 45000/- in the website. We have purchased an Inspiron for @silentlover143, 4 months ago via online. That made a profit around 4K than the direct purchase from the retail shops. You have to pay only delivery charges in extra which may cost below 2K, and got the product delivered to home withn 2 weeks. But on further query we found that online purchase takes more than one an half months in between order & delivery here in EKM. 

So we decided to hang on with the new Inspiron series, it's too got a similar hinge of XPS, painted black and offering two series of configuration. There is a difference of 5K rupees in between models with core i3 and core i5, having RAM and HDD of 3gb|320gb and 4gb|500gb respectively with ATI graphics card included. The 14 inch and 15 inch screen options also differs in a price of 3000/- in core i5 series and around 500/- in core i3 series.

Inspiron seems to be a coolest optionnear 45k price range with a desent configuration and pretty look. Since the new XPS may take further weeks to reach on the hand of retailers for direct sale, and also costlier due to addons like speakers from JBL, Nvidia's presence, etc... built on the same processor family and memory of Inspiron machines, I made my suggestionfor my friend to go on for an Inspiron instead of waiting more and wasting extra bucks for the XPS...