M90 vs XPS M170

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Howdy,
So I am trying to decide between the following two machines: I have a hard cap budget of 3k. Any thoughts. Hard drive and Optical drive are better in the XPS. The XPS also has a "gaming" video card. But the new M90 has Duo Core and a workhorse of a vid card. Any thoughts would be great. Anyone had any experience with the FX 2500M?
Thanx
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XPS M170: Intel® Pentium® M Processor 780 (2.26 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Professional
17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7800 GTX
60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
Integrated 1 Gigabit Network Card and Modem
8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
Intel® PRO 2915 and Dell 350 Bluetooth Internal Wireless Cards
9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery (80 WHr)
3 Yr Limited Warranty plus 3 Yr NBD On-site Service and CompleteCare
Total Price is $2,983.10

Dell Precision M90
Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2500 (2.00GHz/667MHz)
Genuine Windows® XP Professional, SP2 with Media
17 inch Wide Screen WUXGA LCD Panel
NVIDIA® Quadro FX 2500M, 512MB (dedicated), OpenGL
2 GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM, 2 DIMM
Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Dual-band Mini-Card
60GB Hard Drive (5400RPM)
24X max/10X min CD-ROM Drive
3Yr Parts + Onsite Labor (Next Business Day) + CompleteCare
Total Price is $2,968.76
 
Retardo said:
whats gonna be 'new' about it?
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The date from "official sources" for the release of the new XPS M1710 is April 14th. New important changes worth mentioning are duo core and 7900 GTX go GPU.
 
the quadro card is for OpenGL 3d rendering, NOT gaming.

So what do you pan to do , game or do 3d work with Maya / 3d Studio and other OpenGL rendering programs?
 
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