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Details of – Dell Multimedia Laptop – Inspiron 6400:-

24 March 2008 – Dell’s Vostro line is aimed at business users but takes the same standard look as the consumer Inspiron line. However, there are differences, with the build quality being ramped up and, if you’re willing to pay for it, extra services.

The Dell Vostro 1700 is a 17-inch machine and being a business machine, the first thing you’ll notice about this notebook is the build quality. Dell hasn’t cut any corners, offering a body made from magnesium alloy instead of plastic, which is used on the Inspiron 1700 with which it shares the same body design.

The large chassis weighs in at 4.1kg, which means you won’t want to carry this machine around for any length of time. We only managed to get 2 hours from the battery, which is fine for using around the house or office, but not for the road. It’s not all bad news, as extra size allows for a big and spacious keyboard that we found great to use.

The 17-inch screen comes with a standard TFT display, which is still the preferred panel for business use. The screen has a 1440 x 900-pixel resolution and while the images were bright, they tended to look a little soft and not as crisp as they would on a Super-TFT panel.

Graphics comes in the form of the Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT, which is a great choice for this level of machine. While it’s not a gaming GPU, it’ll handle mainstream tasks with ease.

The rest of the specification is impressive too for the price. You’ll find an T7250, which clocks in at 2GHz and with 2048MB of memory, this should deliver great power for the price. The system is rounded out with a 160GB hard drive.

However, The problem we had with our test machine was one of power. While the specification certainly offers great value for the price, when it came to running multiple tasks, we found this machine started to run slow, the fan constantly ran and the whole system start to feel sluggish. We’d suggest, if possible, opting for a faster chip as this should help overcome this problem.

When it comes to connections, you’ll find the standard offerings with network options consisting of 802.11a/g Wi-Fi and 10/100 Ethernet and VGA-out and S-video for connecting to external monitors and projectors.

Dell used to build all its computers to order but it has recently started to offer set machines from retail stores. This means you can check out the physical quality of the notebook before you buy. It does mean that you won’t be able to specify a configuration but we found this Vostro offered a great spec for the price.

• Processor – Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 2.0 GHz Dual-Core
• RAM – 2 GB (installed) 4 GB (max) – DDR II SDRAM
  
• Hard Drive – 160 GB
• Operating System – Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
• Screen – 17 in TFT active matrix 1440 x 900
• Optical Drive – DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM
• Bluetooth – No
• Warranty – 1 years warranty

Dell is bringing some new power to its lineup of accuracy mobile workstation computers today. The computer manufacturer makes known the Precision M6300, available now for a base configuration price of $2,070.

The Dell Precision M6300 borders on being a desktop replacement model, sporting a 17-inch wide aspect WXGA+ display. It’s powered by 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo and Extreme Edition processors up to the X7900 and joint with NVIDIA Quadro FX1600M OpenGL discrete graphics. You also get up to 4GB of RAM and your choice of hard drives, including solid state and encrypted.

The Precision M6300 is primarily geared towards graphic artists, developers and the like. Given that is allegedly certified to handle popular, power famished applications in a diversity of specialty fields like science and software growth we can easily see why it’s cautious top of the line.

Dell and Bizzard Entertainment are asking you to believe as you choose which new World of Warcraft themed gaming laptop you want. The new Dell XPS M1730 World of War craft Edition notebook PC has a starting price of around $4,500.

The XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition notebook PC appears to be fully geared towards the World of Warcraft reactionary. You can pick from one of two laptops inscribed with the Alliance or Horde logos in addition to other WoW artwork. The computers in this line can be outfitted with an optional over-clockable Intel Extreme Edition Core 2 Duo processor, up to 3.4GHz as well as NVIDIA SLI graphics power and 512MB of devoted video RAM with DirectX 10 support. The M1730’s monitor is 17-inches of high description viewing fun.