This question is mainly for techies, or people who have experience in both Lenovo and Dell laptops, but anyone’s welcome to answer, of course (just please add sources if possible):
I’ve been looking for the perfect drafting/architectural design laptop for a while and decided to wait until the post-Thanksgiving sales kicked in. I’ve only found TWO laptops that can be customized to my needs (including fast processor, tons of memory, dedicated workstation graphics card, and downgradeability to Windows XP, display size, etc). These are:
Lenovo ThinkPad W700
Dell Precision Workstation M6400 64-bit
If I remember correctly, I was able to customize the ThinkPad’s hardware configuration to be very close to that of the Dell Precision, and it was comparatively a steal, by about a couple hundred dollars at least. So naturally, the ThinkPad beat out the Precision. But now that an online deal has made the Precision as affordable as the ThinkPad, I’m down to having to make a choice again between these two, on the dimension of laptop quality/durability this time, and not price.
I’m not asking for which laptop gives me more/better features for my money; I’ll work that out myself. I’m just curious as to which laptop is more durable and better built. So…
Which is better built and will last longer?
Also, any idea as to what would make these two laptops, which are customized to roughly the same hardware configurations, differ so much in price?
Any laptop comparison or review websites you could offer?
Thank you!