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Inspiron 9400 2.0 core duo/ATIx1400 x XPS m170 2.0 Pentium centrino/Nvidia7800gtx ?




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Hi everyone .
Im in a dilema here, and
if anyone can help me with this. I would appreciate your kindness .
I've been using my ;
Dell XPS M170 win xp mce2005
Pentium Centrino M 2.0 Ghz
1gb ram
256Mb Gforce Go 7800 GTX
wfi 2950 a,b,g / bluetooth
Display wuxga 17 inch Ultrasharp truelife

I Bought a Inspiron 9400/e1705 winxp home
Its a Intel core duo 2.0 Ghz
1gb ram
256Mb ATI Radeon X1400
Wfi minicard b/g 3945
Display wxga 17 inch Ultrasharp Truelife

Both has:
100gb 5400rpm HDD
dvd/rw


And i cant decide witch i should keep .
Im gonna be using it for graphic design
like openning mutiple 20-30 mbs photoshop/Macromedia fireworks fileS
Macromedia flash animations
and i also play battlefield2 and counter strike/cz on it
i cant decide witch of them will be fast for editing my files, cuz sometimes on my xps when i open alot os iE and 3, -5 macromedia fireworks files it kind gats slow for editing and minimizing everything
i appreciante your attntion here
tY

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Sounds like you need multitasking power so the better option looks to be the computer with the core duo processor.

Reply to miro_refero
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I ranned 3dmarks 06 on it
the basic versioN
i dont know if yal familiar with that , i downloaded it after a friend told me about it
here are the scores :
____________XPS_________9400
sm2.0 Score: 1515 ________328
HDR/sm3.0 : 1518________ 342
CPU Score : 857_________ 1683

Ranned A diagnostics Software too its called Sandra :

Processor Arithmetic
XPS : 8875 (total)_____9400 : 18586 (total)

Processor Multi-Media
XPS : 39465 (total)_____9400 : 73518 (total)

Memory Bandwidth
XPS : 4983 (total)_____9400 : 7947 (total)

File Systems
XPS : 31461 (total)_____9400 : 30859 (total)

thats about it
Anyone can get in a conclusion witch of them will satisfy me for the next 3 years for graphics/website designing ?

thanks give your opnion if you know it please .

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