Heavy and large Dell inspiron 1100

Dell’s Inspiron 1100 budget system is a hit or miss product. Its base configuration is nothing special, but good deals can be found through Dell’s special offers. Dell’s mainstream Inspiron 1100 is the cheapest notebook in the newly redesigned Inspiron family, but it’s by no means the runt. Weighing 7.6 pounds, the 1100 is not ideal to lug around on a business trip or to class. In case you’re inclined to do so, however, Dell packs an efficient Celeron processor and a lithium ion battery rated at 6.45 Ah. And you can expect an impressive 4 hours of battery life, according to our BatteryMark test result.

Dell inspiron 1100 Des:

• Intel Celeron 2.0 GHz Processor
• 256 MB PC2100 DDR Memory
• 30 Gigabyte Hard Drive
• 24x CD-ROM Optical Drive
• 15″ XGA (1024×768) LCD and Intel Extreme 3D Graphics with 64MB Shared Memory
• AC’97 Audio
• v.92 56Kbps Modem and 10/100 Ethernet
• Two USB 2.0 Ports and One Type II PC Card Slot
• 13.1″ x 10.8″ x 1.8″ @ 7.8 lbs.
• Windows XP Home Operating System
• Rechargeable lithium inspiron 1100 battery

Dell Inspiron 1100 budget desktop replacement is probably one of the oldest systems available for under $1000 and its components show that age. The base configuration comes with an Intel 2.0 GHz Celeron processor which is sufficient for most computer users, but lower than most of its competitors. the biggest drawback to the system is the normal capacity battery that ships with it to reduce costs also reduces its possible battery life. The other area that it lacks is the optical storage. It ships with a 24x CD-ROM drive. On the plus side of things, Dell offers many upgrade special offers that can allow one to get memory or optical drive upgrades if they are willing to shop for the deals.

This is the same casing that’s being used in most of the new Inspiron series releases such as the 600m, 8600 and 5100.? One thing I don’t like about the Inspiron 1100 is its large size though.? With a 14.1 inch screen it is certainly not one of your 17″ desktop replacement monsters, but with its dimensions of 12.9 by 10.8 by 1.7 inches and a weight of 7.4 pounds it’s no lightweight.

Many notebooks with large cases will contain two internal secondary storage devices, a floppy and CD-RW for instance.? But not with the Inspiron 1100.? You can only get one fixed (not swappable) when configuring the Inspiron 1100 battery .? You have to choose from CD, DVD, CD-RW or DVD/CD-RW drives when ordering.? The DVD/CD-RW combo is the way to go if you can spend $50 – $100 extra.? If you really want a floppy Dell offers an external USB floppy drive for $49.

With its powerful 14.8V, 6,450mAh inspiron 1100 battery, the Inspiron 1100 had little trouble clobbering the competition in battery life. The Inspiron 1100’s four-hour score is the longest battery life we’ve seen in a Celeron-based system.Dell has achieved providing a respectable notebook that can?do every?day tasks without any problem for a low price.

Dell Dimension desktops are advertised everywhere: from the internet, to television, and in the Sunday papers. While they are inexpensive, I wanted to see if I could get a better price, so I went to the Dell website and looked in their outlet. I found a Dimension 1100 computer and decided to order it, a flat-panel monitor, and a pair of speakers. To my surprise, I was sent the wrong monitor and the right computer tower. The shipping to return the monitor would have been $50 and my monitor only cost $165, so I decided to take it apart and remount it using cable ties. It looks horrible and is lopsided, but it works. The real problem I am having is with the Dimension. This is the slowest computer, and has been from day one. Also, it has a tendency to freeze up a lot and I find I have to restart it completely. Dell products used to be great quality, but we have gone through 4 Dell laptops and 2 Dell computers in a period of three years. Each time, we have to end up buying another computer. One time, it was because the laptop was purchased overseas while on military deployment, so the standard warranty offered, wasn?t valid, though its laptop battery very power.

All in all, if you’re seeking a notebook for word processing, e-mailing, or browsing the Internet, this is a reasonable choice. But other units, like the HP Pavilion ze4200, give you greater value for your money.

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Dell inspiron 6000 review

You can see more on the Dell Inspiron 6000’s wide screen than on most other 15.4-inch displays thanks to its WUXGA resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels. In fact, you can work with higher-resolution photographs, more spreadsheet columns, and more tiled documents simultaneously on the Inspiron 6000 than you can on some 17-inch wide screens.

Dell Inspiron 6000 D Specs: 

• 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium M 730 (Sonoma), 533MHz FSB and PCIe x16 chipset
• 15.4 inch WSXGA+ LCD Panel (Samsung)
• 512 MB DDR2 400 MHz ram
• 60 GB Ultra ATA Fujitsu 4200rpm hard drive
• 64 MB ATi Mobility Radeon X300
• Microsoft Windows XP Home
• 24x CD-RW/DVD (Sony)
• Intel 2200 b/g internal wireless card
• 6-cell lithium ion inspiron 6000 battery
• 4 USB ports
• 1 IEEE 1394 FireWire port
• Secure Digital I/O card slot
• 1 PCMCIA card slot
• 2 front facing speakers
• VGA output
• Optional S-Video and composite video out with adaptor cable
• Audio-out (headphones) and Mic-in
• Integrated 10/100 network Ethernet card
• Internal 56k modem
• 4 year on-site service warranty 

In addition to the Sonoma technology, the Inspiron 6000 offers a number of improvements over the Inspiron 5160, which it will replace in Dell’s home/small business line-up. Upgraded features include a 15.4in. wide-screen display (available in WXGA, WSXGA and WUXGA resolutions), a slightly slimmer profile (though it’s about 2.5cm wider), a better keyboard layout, optional Bluetooth, front edge media controls and four USB 2.0 ports. Also onboard are an S-Video output, FireWire, VGA, 10/100 Ethernet and modem connections, plus a multi-format, double-layer DVD burner. Hard drive capacities will range from 30GB to 80GB.

The machine comes normally with a 6-cell inspiron 6000 battery. So I ordered a second battery, a 9-cell one, and for some reason unknown to me Dell decided to make both batteries 9-cell, instead of giving me a small and a big one. Nice, two of these 80 Wh batteries will last a complete transatlantic flight, each one giving up to 5 hours of power.

The Inspiron 6000 is a smoothly designed, handsome laptop with a sloped front and cream-colored trim. Our unit had a multiformat DVD burner, plus FireWire and TV-out ports and four USB 2.0 ports, all placed for easy use. The 6000 accepts user upgrades easily. Like many laptops, it has two memory slots located in a compartment on the bottom of the laptop. But instead of residing in dovetailed slots, the modules lie side by side–an unusual arrangement that makes them more accessible than most. The hard drive is a breeze to remove, too: Just unscrew its bottom panel and tug the drive out through the right side of the case. Though the optical drive doesn’t have a lever for popping it out, you can boost it out by its lower edge after removing a security screw on the bottom of the case.

The 2-GHz Pentium M 760-equipped review unit did well in our speed tests, earning a WorldBench 5 score of 89, about 8 percent above the average for systems equipped with the same processor.To test the gaming ability of this system on the latest and greatest games I decided to use Doom 3. The Inspiron 6000 D with the 64 MB ATi X300 card didn’t do too well here. I could only get an average of 30 FPS when using low graphics settings and the 800×600 resolution. It looked pretty bad. Otherwise the game was working fine with all of its effects, characters, and maps.

The Dell Inspiron 6000 does not have a “stick” for mouse control, only a touchpad. A Kensington Pocket Mouse is a recommended extra. Having only used desktop keyboards before, a laptop keyboard takes time getting used to, but the keys are big enough and have enough “depths” to give a real typing feeling.

If you’re looking for an inexpensive 15.4 inch widescreen laptop with good battery life and moderate performance, the Dell Inspiron 6000 D is a good choice.

The article is from : laptops-battery.co.uk

IBM Thinkpad R50 review

IBM Thinkpad R50 review

The article from laptops-battery.co.uk
IBM released its new ThinkPad R50 series during the fall of 2003. The R Series of notebooks from IBM used to parade as a budget class, that’s no longer the case, the R Series is in fact quite close to the high-end T Series in performance and specs. IBM’s new drive-protection technology senses rough handling and parks the hard drive heads. Should the notebook hit the deck, the drive and its data are likely to remain intact, even if the computer itself is damaged and becomes unusable.

IBM Thinkpad R50
? Centrino 1.4 GHz Processor
? 512 MB DDR333 RAM (CL2.5 according to IBM, no data on memory timings)
? Radeon 7500 Mobility w/32MB Ram
? 5400 rpm 30 GB Hard Drive
? AC Power

? Rechargeable Thinkpad R50 battery

AthlonXP Powered Desktop Computer
? AthlonXP @ 2.26 GHz Processor
? 1 GB DDR424 RAM (2-2-3-5)
? ABit NF-7 nForce2 mobo
? ATI RAdeon 9700Pro w/128 MB Ram
? 7200 rpm 120 GB WD Hard Drive w/8MB cache

The R50 is based on the Intel Centrino standard, so inside you’ve got a Pentium M processor running at 1.5GHz. The memory complement is a fairly standard 512MB with one SODIM slot left empty for future upgrades, while the 40GB hard disk is smaller than some, but still more than enough for most notebook users. If you do want to free up some hard disk space, IBM has been thoughtful enough to include a DVD/CD-RW combo drive, so you can burn important data off to CD.

The R-Series actually has some advantages over its top-of-the-line sibling: The R50 comes with either a 14- or 15-inch display; the T-Series offers just the 14-inch screen. And because the R50 uses the industry-standard 12.7-mm removable-device bay, you can swap in a rewritable DVD drive (for $400 more). All you can get with the T-Series is a CD-RW/DVD ROM because of the 9.5-mm bay that IBM hopes will be a standard eventually.

The ThinkPad R50 of course features IBM’s easy to distinguish classic black case and with a 13” x 10.4” x 17” (W x D x H) dimension specs we see that it has grown slightly from the previous generation. With a 15-inch XGA screen (14.1″ also available) and weighing a modest 6.6lbs, or 7.1lbs when combined with the AC adapter for travel weight, the ThinkPad R50 can serve as a good desktop replacement or as a reasonably mobile laptop if you’re on the go. The ThinkPad R50 is a diverse laptop, so let’s dig into the details and see if it’s worth your consideration for purchasing.

Like most ThinkPad notebooks, the R50 is not a music machine, despite its smoothly designed, press-and-hold volume controls. Sound quality is fine, with no distortion or extreme tinniness, but ultimately the audio emitted is too low for more than occasional listening.

The R50 ships with Windows XP Professional pre-installed, while IBM has thoughtfully also included a copy of Norton Anti Virus 2003. I use Norton myself and I find it alarming how many email viruses it spots on a daily basis, so it’s good to see it included with a new machine. ThinkPads also ship with a few special features like the hard disk Active Protection System. This basically stops the hard disk from damaging itself if the notebook is bumped or moved during operation.

Performance is fairly close to the Dell Inspiron 510m that we looked at last week, although the 3D performance is far superior on the R50. Mobile Mark reported a battery life of three hours 42 minutes, which is good, but not spectacular. At least you’ll be able to squeeze half a day’s work out of the battery.

In conclusion, IMO the thinkpad r50 is a very good laptop select as its price $1,769. If you buy a laptop for General office work and study, the thinkpad t50 is your best choice. It is so thin and light that you can easy to take it to anywhere.

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