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    help I can decide on what HD

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by twosevennine, Jun 9, 2009.

  1. twosevennine

    twosevennine Newbie

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    I made my final decision on the studio xps 13.
    specs-
    P9600 6MB cache/2.66GHz
    4GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM
    NVIDIA® GeForce® 9500M - 256MB

    Not shure if i should go with the:

    500GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive

    or

    320GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive

    I don't really know what im going to use the pc for yet im still young! I want to be able to do anything...
    Please Help???
     
    twosevennine, Jun 9, 2009
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  2. TexasEx7

    TexasEx7 Meat Popsicle

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    If you dont have high needs for your computer at this time, that is a whole lot of machine for you. The P9600 with 4GB of RAM would certainly be able to handle most of the games available that you can throw at it.

    You pretty much have to accept that any machine you buy will be old in a year, and in three years the computers will far outpace it. But for the time being, that computer should do just about anything a young kid can throw at it.

    As to your HDD question...if you dont care about price, the 7200RPM Hard Drive will transfer files faster. It wont be a huge blazing difference, but its faster.

    But, if you want alot of hard drive space, then you should take the 500 GB HDD. If you put hundreds of movies and hundreds of thousands of music files and install tons of programs, you'll go through some space pretty quickly.

    Keep in mind, you can always buy an external hard drive pretty cheaply and store all of those files. Meaning, you could go ahead and take the 320 GB 7200RPM now and if you need more space later just get another drive.
     
    TexasEx7, Jun 10, 2009
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