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Question

Which of these 2 laptops for college?

by Aug 18, 2015 2:11PM PDT

1-Dell Inspiron 7352 with i7 and 256GB SSD
2- Inspiron 7547 (i7 4th gen/16GB/AMD/1TB HDD)

Personally,I want a convertible but then again that can be compromised if the other option is better performance-wise.
If you want to suggest something else, please make sure it's sub $800 or is a bit old since that price comes out to be under $1000 in my home country. HP spectre is my favorite but unavailable, Xps13 is available but with just 128GB SSD and i5.

Here is what I'm looking at to compare:
-durability
-weight
-battery
-keyboard(2nd one up has a bad one)
-performance.
-touchscreen


suggestions,please.

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Durable.
by Forum moderator Aug 18, 2015 2:24PM PDT

You can look up what durable is in the dictionary but for durable laptops we have to look at Panasonic Toughbooks. Insprions are value items but could make it the 4 years with care.

Keyboards are fairly easy to replace. Item 1 is pretty nice with the SSD. Any used laptop is a coin toss. Why are they selling?

As to sub 800 dollar models there are now some thousand models in that price range. How about the Lenovo g50?
http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-15-6-Inch-Laptop-59421806-Black/dp/B00K6ZIFCO/

You can pocket the savings for a rainy day.

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Durable=4years
by spectre47 Aug 19, 2015 4:46AM PDT
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The keyboard looks fine to me
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 19, 2015 8:40AM PDT

Did you try it? I see they pushed the keyboard to the top of the panel, and maybe shrunk the Fkeys but it looks very usable as they increased the palm rest area. That's a good design!

As to the 1st option I can't guess if you meant mine or yours. If you are buying used, all bets are off as they are selling for a reason. It could be the machine is broek, unstable or other.
Note: Edited for typo.

Post was last edited on August 19, 2015 8:40 AM PDT

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