Advice needed centenarians and hi-res W520 or new and low resolution W530?

Hello people!

I'd appreciate your advice and your experience to help me with my contemplation.

Im a CAD (solidworks, autocad, revit) and graphics (adobe, sony vegas) user, I need a new machine because my x200t do not support the load more...

I have a limited budget, and I have two options with the same price (of Lenovo in any case):

A demo version of W520:

Machine type/model: 42844 MG

Intel Core i7-2860QM - 2.5 GHz

2 x 4 GB 500 GB 7200 RPM

15.6 inches (1920 x 1080 nVidia 2000M 2 GB)

DVD - Rec

WiF, cornflower, WWAN

RPF 9elements color sensor Cam card reader

Windows 7 Pro 64

New W530:

Intel Core i7-3720QM - 4 c - 2.6 GHz

8GB 500 GB 7200 RPM + 32 GB mSATA

15.6 inch (1600 x 900 nVidia Quadro 1100 M)

DVD - Rec WiFi color sensor of fingerprint 4-in-1 card reader

Backlit keyboard 9 cell cam

Windows 7 Pro 64

I would buy something and forget the upgrade for the next 3 years...

I'd appreciate advice.

Kind regards

Gili

  • Do not spend money for the color sensor. Buy a sensor of external color that you can use the laptop monitor and your internal display.
  • Why do you have 32 GB on the W530 mSATA? Go with an SSD as a single disc, or go with an SSD in the main Bay and the HARD drive in an adapter ultra bay. I don't think that the 32 GB mSATA is logical from the financial point of view as a disk cache only.
  • Do you need the cam on the on the W530, which should save money as well.

2000M (W520) vs... K1000M (W530)

Both have 192 cores, 2 GB of Ram, bandwidth, same memory, same version of OpenGL, shader model directX version PCI-E generation FP32 and Optimus.

Differences: K1000M gives you DisplayPort 1.2 and the 2000M is only DisplayPort 1.1. TDP is less than 10W on the K1000M.

See this pdf to more details.

For graphics cards will perform more or less the same (W530 could be able to turbo graphics or more processor because of less PDT). You will benefit from the additional performance of the 3720? If so, then I'd go with the W530.

I normally recommend Win 7 Home Premium and not Pro, since they both will come with a $14.99 to Win 8 Pro upgrade. I guess you want to stay on Win 7, at least until the 8 is on SP1, if not for the life of the machine. So Win7 Pro might be good for you, if you need functionality.

You what you need to consider is: the processor in the W530 will benefit you more than the screen on the W520 and you prefer one keyboard on the other.

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