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Specs dont matter much anymore. Any dual core laptop can do what most people need. What matters is the build quality, QA, battery life, screen, heat dissipatio

• Const-me 10y ago
  On modern laptops, build quality and QA are more or less OK (or “equally bad” if you’re a pessimist). Because warranty returns are expensive, and also because competition. If you buy a laptop to watch youtube and read e-mails, sure, any dual core will do, but for a professional, performance matters. Speaking of performance, I wouldn’t buy this dell because the CPU has no L4 cache. Some tasks, like compiling C++, benefit a lot from that 64-128 MB on-chip DRAM found in some previous-generation CPUs. Specs still matter. Battery life is measured in hours; screens are measured in pixels, inches and percentage of Adobe RGB.