Laptops lappies to buy [2 lappies]

Aniruddh

Aniruddh

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I am looking to buy 2 notebooks. One will be for myself and one for my brother.

I am looking for something around 50k with a dual core processor, a 14.1" widescreen, 1GB RAM atleast and a 80GB HDD.

My bro needs a portable soultion. Something like the Dell XPS series but with a better GPU. His budget is around 65k. A 12" or 14" widescreen, 1/2 GB RAM, a decent gpu, 80GB HDD is required. Ideally this notebook should run Vista smoothly as well with all eye candy.

Please suggest. Thanks.
 
prices in the US and India have kinda converged now for most models

A marginal premium is fair for local warranty and support

on a side note, look at the Vaio sale in my sig

*sneaks away after shamelss promotion*
 
superczar said:
prices in the US and India have kinda converged now for most models
A marginal premium is fair for local warranty and support
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Yeah, with respect to Dell/HP prices of US & India are kinda near but the local warranty makes it more feasible to get the lappie from India for the same model..
 
Thanks for ur quick replys but nops it wont be possible for me to get the lappy from US.ill b getting it here itself in india...so plz suggest the brand/model number for both.
thanks in advance
waiting for reply
byee tc
 
@leomax : Only on the website..I checked with a half-a-dozen HP showrooms and multibrand resellers the dv2500 series is still atleast a month away (well thats what they said) :(
 
superczar said:
prices in the US and India have kinda converged now for most models

A marginal premium is fair for local warranty and support
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Alias said:
Yeah, with respect to Dell/HP prices of US & India are kinda near but the local warranty makes it more feasible to get the lappie from India for the same model..
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I'd disagree with that actually. My friend got a Dell Inspiron 6400 about 10 days back from US for roughly 60k. Now, if i make a similar (as everything is not available here) config on the dell india site, the cost comes to roughly 85k.. Now isn't 25k a pretty good difference? AND, he gets international warranty so no problem in that field.

AMD4Life said:
As for the portable solution, XPS is still the sweetest deal.
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Agreed :)

You know, if you got to the dell site and configure the inspiron 6400. You can get a prettty decent config for ~50k (much cheaper than the 12" xps one)
 
well,lenovo's schedule is to bring santa rosa here in may.
Dell's site already has three santa rosa inspirons..
I guess the availability problem will be mainly for laptop's with dx10 gpu's..
 
Ank1t said:
AND, he gets international warranty so no problem in that field.
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I dunno abt the config prices for the 6400 in India but when i was trying to buy the E1705 from US (9400 in India), the config was coming roughly 80-85k in India while ma fren got it in India for around 90k for the same config albeit 1 GB RAM instead of 2GB...

Moreoever, iv heard that Dell offers international warranty only if u select 3 years warranty.. Dunno if that is changed.

Btw, about that price difference being so much, was the config in US selected with 2 GB RAM? Coz what i have noticed is that there is a lot of price difference between the models from both countries when selecting more RAM..
Another point to note is presence of Dell coupons in US that reduce the price a lot.. That seems to be replaced by haggling with the Dell customer rep in India .. :P

And the last point to note. Santa Rosa notebooks have been launched. Hence find laptops from US based on the old 945 chipset to be sold off at much lower prices.. This may take a while for prices to reflect in india... Takes time 4 santa rosa to reach indian shores.. :P
 
^ I dunno about the international warranty with only th 3-year period but yes he did take the 3-year one and i was comparing the prices with that. And yes he did take 2 GB ram and if i remember correctly he paid $200 for the ram and they'r charging around 9.5k here. So thats not AS much of a difference :P.

Yeah you'r right about the coupons thing.. You can save a bit there. But also, the taxes are pretty high there so compensates.. You'r probably right bout the santa rosa thing. But well, that just means that US is much cheaper :) Point proved :P Lol..
 
dell have 14.i incher in inspiron 640m series.

Lenovo / Acer /HP are equally good.

Dell offers maximum flexibility in configuration while rest are much better in aesthetics.

On a side note : when i got my Dell inspiron 6400 from USA on the day of order there it costed some 45 k in INR while the same config with little difference costed 72 plus taxes.

so there is a difference in price. but as the buyer has noted US purchase is not an option we have to stick to indian offerings only.
 
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