vintagevibe
chuckebaby
I don't know much about these dells but I will say I have had great luck with the AMD's.
built a 6 core chip(the phenom black edition 2) with 8 gigs of ram on a gigabyte mobo.
I was never an AMD person always thought of them as Intel's little brother.
after a lot of testing I was blown away.
I have yet run in to any issues and anything where I would think my cpu could be better.
I do realize the i7's are great and a little better.im just sold on amd, it out perform's my second generation i5 using sonar.
I wish I could be more help with these specific models, im sorry.
are you going with a laptop because you need portability?
desktops are just so much easier to work on, because a good computer will last you years but sooner or later samething will need to be replaced.
best of luck on this, again wish I could help you more.
I have a powerful desktop as my main audio system. This is for light audio (and everything else). I've had great luck with my current Dell I'm just worried about the odd incompatibility as Newegg has a 25% restocking fee. Sometimes you see weird issues with various video cards. My current one had Intel graphics and no issues. In don't know anything about the AMD Radeon graphics card.
ya don't worry to much about the AMD Radeon graphics card I used it for awhile with x2 until I upgraded a few computers here to higher grade card.
I had no probs with them.