Difference in Laptops

Hello Everyone,

I am brand new to this site and wish I had come across it before I purchased my new laptop. I plan to use it in a virtual assistance business (using mostly MS Office suite and eventually website design and podcasting), will watch the occasional dvd, and have no intentions to play games. Two weeks ago I purchased from Costco a HP dv7-1183cl for $1,199 with the following specs:


Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P7350 (2.0GHz)
3MB L2 cache
1066MHz front side bus
4GB DDR2 SDRAM (both slots occupied)
500GB (5,400RPM) SATA Dual Hard Drive
Blu-Ray™ ROM with SuperMulti DVD±RW Double Layer (in one optical drive)
17.0" diagonal WXGA+ BrightView Infinity widescreen display; 1440 x 900 native resolution
512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT graphics


Starting tomorrow Costco will offer the HP dv7-1273cl for $999 (using $200 coupon). The specs for this machine:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T6400 (2.0GHz)
2MB L2 cache
800MHz front side bus
4GB DDR2 SDRAM (both slots occupied)
500GB (5,400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
Blu-Ray™ ROM with SuperMulti DVD±RW Double Layer (in one optical drive)
17.0" diagonal WXGA+ BrightView Infinity widescreen display; 1440 x 900 native resolution
512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT graphics

For my planned purposes, should I return my original machine, buy the dv7-1273cl and have the difference refunded? As far as processors go, will there be a noticeable, if any, difference in performance?

All help will be appreciated.

Condo

Thanks frozenlead,

I don't want to return it because I've loaded a lot of software already. I was just concerned that new machine offered at Costco will be a lot slower. I appreciate your help.

Condo

I plan to go to Costco with my receipt and a print out of the discount information from Costso's web-site. I have done this in the past and received the discount credit every time - even with the product numbers being slightly different. It's worth a try and you have nothing to loose.