Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop Review

Dell Inspiron 1525 offers some of the cheapest price if you are ready to shop for deals. He cautioned, however, Dell offers a wide range of settings and often mis-specification can end with a higher price tag than others. Therefore, buyers must be vigilant as the Inspiron 1525 comes with. With a little shopping pickets, consumers may end up with a solid notebook for a low price.

As can be deduced from the model number, the Inspiron 1525 is not an "Extreme Makeover" in 1520 is more like a cut and plastic surgery. Corner notebook seems almost identical but has a sleek design: It is 1.5 inches at its thickest edge, thinner than 1.1 cm of cases, 14 cm wide and 10 1 cm depth. System weighs only six pounds with the battery. Dell 1525 offers highly configurable in a variety of colors and cover styles. The basic model is available in Jet Black, you pay $ 25 extra for the magenta floral pattern that appears in our review unit, or one of the nine design options. We believe that an upgrade is worth emphasizing the basic-black mass.

Inspiron 1525 is equipped with the following specifications:

• 15.4-inch WXGA (1280 x 800) CCFL TrueLife (glossy) screen
• Core 2 Duo T7250 at 2.0 GHz
• 2GB DDR2-667 SDRAM available (up to 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM)
• 120GB SATA hard drive 5400 rpm
• Double Layer 8x DVD ± RW
• Video: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
• Wireless: Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card
• Mobile Broadband: Dell Wireless integrated mobile broadband mini-cards Sprint and Verizon serice
• Colors: various colors and finishes available
• Media Card: 8-in-1 Flash Card Reader
• Entry and exit ports: 4 USB 2.0, HDMI, VGA, IEEE 1394a, RJ11, RJ45, 2 headphone, 1 microphone, 1 ExpressCard 54mm slot, 3 mini-card slots, consumer IR, S-Video
• No webcam (optional Integrated 2.0 megapixel webcam available)
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Dimensions: 1.00 "- 1.48" (H) x 14.05 "(W) x 10.08" (depth)
• Weight: 5.9 kg with 6-cell dell laptop battery
• Base price configuration: $ 499
• Price as tested: $ 1.024 ($ 874 after instant savings)

Benefits

Boots fast, has an HDMI port, the media controls the vertical and horizontal bands enables touch that access to the media, and presentations without booting Windows, many options for housing design

Cons

Noisy optical drive, integrated graphics card can not be upgraded, the keys on the keyboard a little bright light surface excess returns

Editors’ Note

Though no friend of the player, the Dell Inspiron 1525 offers mainstream users a good mix of style and portability.

Battery

The 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion delivers an astonishing 1525th With the power management in Vista "High Performance" mode, the maximum brightness of the screen and moving is the 6-cell battery delivered two hours and 53 minutes before. We are convinced that the 6-cell could deliver three hours of life with the notebook on "balanced" or energy savings "and shows the brightness of the screen refused.

Also available is a 85Whr 9-cell Li-Ion dell inspiron 1525 laptop battery, users need. One thing to mention that the 9-cell battery extends for a greater global dimension of the laptop when the battery from the 9-cell on the back of the laptop.

A 2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7250, 2GB RAM and a 120GB hard drive 5400 rpm combined to provide an impressive PCMark05 score of 4197, the highest in the RAID. Obtained a score of 124 on MobileMark 2007, the head and shoulders above the rest of the group.

The battery lasted 4 hours and 23 minutes in our test recipe, also took top honors. A 3DMark03 score of 1704 means that you turned off your 3D games in low resolution mode with all the bells and whistles Play For best results, but you can activate Windows Vista Aero effects without the worry.

Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop Review

Dell Inspiron 1501 notebook measures 14 x 10.4 x 1.4 cm and speakers on the panel vents left and right side of the chassis, large integrated touchpad scroll areas, 80 GB hard drive and offensive, not silvery white. And in 1501 weighs a little less, the absence of special CD / DVD control is a glaring omission, even in a spring cleaning of the press. If we increase or decrease the volume or skip DVD chapters, we had the software is much less intuitive controls.

:: Processor

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 1.6 GHz 2 x 256 KB L2 cache

Motherboard

ATI Radeon RS480

:: Memory

1024 MB DDR2-533 SDRAM, max. 2048MB, 2x512MB

:: Graphics Adapter

ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 1150 – 128 MB 256 MB Hyper Memory, GPU / Frequency: 400/400 MHz

:: Show

15/04 16:10, 1280×800 pixel, WXGA TrueLife TFT, glossy: yes

:: Hard Disk Drives

Samsung 80GB 5400 HM080II

:: Sound Card

ATI SB600 HD Audio

:: Links

Express Card, microphone, headphones, 4x USB 2.0, VGA out, Kensington Lock, LAN, modem

: Red

Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g, 10/100 LAN, 56K modem

:: Optical drive

DVD + /-R (DL) TSST TS-L632D

:: Size

Height x Width x (mm): 37x356x265

: Weight:

3.3 kg

:: Battery

7600 mAh (85 Wh) Lithium-ion

:: More options

Card Reader 3in1

Advantage

It was and is straight from the box and very friendly. The display has excellent color quality, everything looks clear. The speakers are great, everything seems very clear to them. Very good everything. very good speakers, very fast.

High performance and not stop once froze or not. Internet and other windows open simultaneously, and the computer will slow down at all. The screen is very bright and clear, are the ports is very good. basic computer with far more power than expected. You get a little more than what you paid.

improve their capabilities to wireless devices affordable for its basic operation. This team is definitely worth the money.

This machine has everything you need in a laptop that is used for lighting. It has a large, bright and clear. Very lively. It is very fast too. Our Internet e-mail appears immediately and without hesitation. The presentation is very easy to fix and the camera is very good too.

Disadvantages:

No reliable, always hard freezes, the system periodically close on themselves, are not really impressed by Anthlon or Vista. It is the fact that Anthlon.

With the AMD Athlon Processor could not handle more than two or three windows open at once after the problems increasingly not know if it was just the beginning Processor. It has an AMD processor, which is good and bad. The system is so funky with XP and install Windows Vista on it.

Play music files with the factory installed Windows Media Player is often interrupted without parallel processes. In built-in speakers do not use after two weeks. Disappointed that Windows XP is not available.

The Inspiron has been a little slow, but if you upgrade the store and go to a bigger hard drive to be ineffective. If you’ve tried a few programs at the same time, it freezes, use a little.

Battery

6-cell dell inspiron 1501 battery, which could get 3 hours and 25 minutes remaining. This was at half screen brightness and Wi-Fi off. More than 3.5 hours, I leave it idle was at about half the time, and half the time I rip things like a CD, run benchmarks and tested various programs. Overall, I was sufficiently impressed to get the battery life, for example. As a portable 15.4 “is probably not a ton and do not want 4 + hours battery life. However, there is an option to upgrade a battery of nine cells must be 4 + hours battery life. The 9-cell battery is flushed with the back of the laptop and not exceed. The tester is equipped with a 85 WH (7600 mAh), 9-cell lithium-ion laptop battery, which is available to provide an additional. The investment is worth it, because this battery has a long 50%.

Dell Inspiron E1505 Laptop Review

The E1505 is Dell Inspiron with 15.4-inch widescreen display with the impressive new Intel Core Duo CPU. A virtually identical Inspiron 6400 is through its enterprise portal. On the outside, as it replaces the Inspiron 6000 looks like, but the new hardware inside makes for impressive performance. In the traditional style of the Dell E1505 is well rounded, very personal and is available to offer a competitive price, but not all the radicals.

The E1505 has been reviewed here configured as follows:

* Intel Core Duo T2500 2.0 GHz memory.
* 15.4 "SXGA + UltraSharp TrueLife
* 512 MB DDR2 533 MHz RAM in dual channel mode
* Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
* 100GB 5400RPM SATA hard drive
* 8x DVD + / – Dual Layer Recording
* 53 Watt-hour battery 6 cell

Construction and Design

The Inspiron E1505 is for most of the Dell lineup white lacquer and covered with a cut to black. I’m not a fan of the painted surfaces, as they seem to be more prone to scratches and chips. The color palette is simple, but I’m not a big fan of the white trim "bumpers."

The notebook is sturdy enough to be comfortable lifting it by one corner. However, I want to create better quality products. Is comparable to Sony and others, but not in the vicinity of the solid (and expensive) IBM ThinkPad line. Like my Inspiron 9300, there is a gap in the bottom of the LCD. This region is also very hot. It is when the backlight or inverter is.

The screen is very sharp with nice saturated colors and high contrast. The performance of the E1505 He was really a surprise. There is no doubt that the Core Duo is fast. The 5400 large disk with a good performance, even if a disk of 7200 rpm would be even better and maintain a level of interest, with the fast CPU and load programs faster.The Dell E1505 is calm notable – the most time. The touchpad is slightly recessed feel so it’s hard to go wrong. The two buttons are quite cheap, but respond well. The Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g signals of good and with a variety of wireless LANs. Yes, also in Fairbanks, Alaska, have hot spots.

Battery

With the smaller option 6 cell battery and a powerful processor, I had high hopes for the life of the battery. However, the Dell lasted longer than expected. At maximum brightness, played a DVD of 2 hours and 30 minutes. Under normal light tasks, with WiFi on and almost maximum brightness, the battery lasted nearly three hours. Attenuation of the screen and open wireless expressed almost four hours of total autonomy. I had the battery in 90 minutes or less to burn, if you really tried. Game likely to burn this fast.

The optional 9-cell dell inspiron e1505 battery, which is the same physical size of the 6-cell should be approximately 50% longer to execute.

The battery charges fast for the first 80%. With about 1% per minute, you can make an important boost for an hour on a scale at the airport.

A larger battery could be used a better choice than two batteries. wear lithium ion battery, although not in use.

Dell Inspiron E1505 review portable entertainment now an Intel Core 2 Duo. Although still a poor choice for the Games of the E1505 is much stronger for other applications, including music and photo editing and video playback. The book also sheds 6.9 E1505 good enough speakers, dedicated media keys and a comfortable keyboard with stylish white trim, if you have a great choice for all consumers who do not want to get an arm and a leg to get a desktop replacement.

Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Review

ThinkPad T61 14.1″ widescreen notebook

Important to note is that this review covers the 14.1″ widescreen version of the T61 series. As with any laptop model series, there are going to be widely varying configurations you can choose that will greatly affect system performance.

Specs

• Processor: Intel T7300 Core 2 Duo (2.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 4MB Cache)
• Graphics: Intel GMA X3100
• Operating System: Windows Vista Business
• Display: WXGA+ 1440 x 900 (LG screen)
• Hard Drive: 100GB 7200RPM (Seagate Momentus 7200.1)
• Memory: 2GB (1GB x 1GB), up to 4GB max
• Ports: 3 USB 2.0, 1 FireWire, Monitor out, modem, Ethernet, headphone out, microphone in
• Slots: 1 PC Card Slot, 1 ExpressCard slot (optional media card reader and Smart Card reader)
• Optical Drive: Ultra-slim Super-Multi Drive
• Dimensions: 13.2″ x 9.3″ x 1.09 – 1.26″ (335mm x 237mm x 27.6 – 31.9mm)
• Weight: 5.1lbs

The good: Internal roll cage protects LCD; 802.11n Wi-Fi for faster wireless throughput; very small A/C adaptor adds little to overall travel weight; Intel’s Active Management Technology provides remote support.

The bad: New Centrino technology doesn’t offer outsize performance gains.

The bottom line: Lenovo’s 14-inch ThinkPad T61 shaves a few millimeters off the company’s more mainstream R-series laptops, but still boasts the same, solid ThinkPad DNA along with IT-friendly features by way of Intel’s new Centrino Pro platform.

Design and Build

The ThinkPad T61 is a premium product with a durable build, it is geared towards business users or simply those willing to pay a bit more to get something that won’t fall apart after 1-year of use. For somebody that travels a lot or relies on their notebook to earn a livelihood, the build and reliability factor is probably more important than having the latest and greatest components inside.

The keyboard remains the same between the T61 and T60 — meaning it’s once again excellent. The only difference is that now there’s more room on the keyboard side areas since the notebook body is wider, the speakers have been relocated to this extra real estate. The keyboard is spill proof and has two drain holes to make sure if you do happen to spill your morning Starbucks coffee, the liquid is carried away from sensitive components and out through the bottom of the notebook.

The hard drive is protected within the magnesium roll cage and shock mounted. Even if your T61 is dropped the included Active Protection System (APS) software will work with the on board accelerometer to detect a fall situation and end hard drive activity to prevent data loss.

Screen

The new widescreen format screen for the 14.1″ T-series is either good, bad or somewhere in between depending on your personal preference. Lenovo will try and convince you widescreen offers more screen real estate and so it’s better, the reality is the guys making the LCD screens are forcing it down the throats of the PC manufacturers because it’s cheaper to make widescreen LCDs.

The particular screen I got is a WXGA+ resolution (1440 x 900). It provides easy viewing and you can fit a good amount on the screen, so no complaints on that front. The screen is crisp and there are no issues with graininess. The matte finish ensures there’s little to no glare in office lighting situations.

Processor and Performance

The ThinkPad T61 now uses the Intel Centrino Duo (Santa Rosa) platform. You get a faster processor front side bus (800MHz), more processor cache (4MB) and an improved integrated graphics solution in the form of the Intel X3100. If all that talk is nonsense to you, then suffice it to say the T61 offers newer and better processing components than the T60. Will this performance be perceivable in helping to run MS Word faster? No of course not, but certain processor intensive tasks such as encoding video will be faster. And even if you won’t be utilizing every ounce of processing power, just knowing the processor is faster and you’re on top of the game is enough to make people like myself want to buy it.

Battery Life

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lenovo thinkpad t61 battery, 14.1″ standard screens and 15.4″ widescreen + 14-inch wide lenovo t61 battery

One thing that’s always a concern with a new platform is battery life. Reading the first reviews that came out about the T61 sounded like gloom and doom with reports of 2 hour battery life. It seems most of the initial reviews were done using very power hungry dedicated graphics solutions and with a 4-cell battery.

I had the opportunity to test a larger 6-cell battery on an integrated graphics system, and got 3 hours and 41 minutes of battery life under what I would deem normal usage. I was using the T61 with screen brightness set to half or lower, Vista battery optimized setting, wireless off to get this number. In a torture test, I set the screen brightness to top level, put in a DVD (Stargate) and played it until the battery hit 5% and the PC went to sleep – which happened after exactly 2 hours 15 minutes. I wouldn’t call that bad, it’ll get you through most movies.

The downside of a 6-cell battery is that it sticks out of the back (see pics) and weighs more, but I’m always be willing to carry a bit more weight for an extra hour of battery life. A positive comment that should be made is the power adapter is nice and small, it’s actually the same size as the X60 ultraportable series adapter.

Keyboard / Touchpad / Pointing Stick

The ThinkPad T-series hasn’t changed too much over time, and that’s a good thing, there’s no use changing something that’s just right. The ThinkPad keyboard is one of, if not the best, notebook keyboards out there. There’s zero flex, every key feels individual, every key has great travel/feedback and the keyboard is full-size.

The T61 has a pointing stick, I love using this and find it much easier than the provided touchpad — it makes it so you can move the cursor around the screen without having to lift your hand from the keys, a much faster and easier to control style of input. But the great thing is that if the pointing stick isn’t your cup of tea then you’ve got the touchpad as well.

Wireless

The ThinkPad T61 uses the Intel 4965 wireless chip that offers 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless reception. All of your bases are covered there, and the greater range 802.11n offers is on the table if you have an 802.11n router. The range of the ThinkPad is theoretically greater now that the lid material has changed to plastic too. The antenna is run up through the lid for better reception you see, and the new lid material allows radio waves to reach the antenna more easily. I was only able to test up to 100-feet away from my NetGear WGR614 802.11g wireless router, which I despise for its bad performance and tendency to drop connections, but the T61 worked just fine with it and I never suffered a connection drop and throughput was consistently good.

Dell’s Vostro line has traditionally been geared towards small businesses, doling out drab, low-powered notebooks and desktops for organizations that need PCs on a tight budget. But the V13, the latest notebook in the Vostro lineup, hopes to shake things up a bit. Weighing in at 3.5 pounds and a svelte 0.65 inches thick, this brushed-metal bijou promises to turn heads, without emptying your corporate warchest. We recently had a chance to sneak a peek at one, and came away fairly impressed.

The basic model runs for $449, and comes equipped with a 1.2GHz Celeron ULV 743 processor, 2GB of DDR3 SDRAM, a 250GB, 5400 RPM hard drive, and Ubuntu Linux. Connectivity options include 802.11 b/g WiFi, Gigabit ethernet, and Bluetooth 2.1 on every model. The 13.3 inch LED-backlit screen is also standard on every model. Klutzes will appreciate a Free Fall Sensor built into the motherboard, while road warriors can opt for a Mobile Broadband Module.

There aren’t too many expandability options to speak of — you’ll find one USB 2.0 port, one USB 2.0 / eSata combo port, and a VGA display port. Ponying up for the $649 model will also net you Windows 7, a larger, faster hard drive, a webcam, and a 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo ULV SU7300 processor.

Now that we’ve got those pesky numbers out of the way, let’s talk design. The V13 takes the ever popular brushed aluminum route, with zinc hinges. The chassis feels solid, despite being just about light enough to tote with one hand. There’s a bit of plastic on the lip of the case to house the WiFi antenna, but nothing too egregious. While our typing-time was limited, the keyboard is full sized, and performed amicably. The trackpad also supports gestures, which could be a nice touch for users who opt for Windows 7.

Of special note is the battery: the 6-cell Lithium Ion battery is integrated directly into the case, much like unibody Mac notebooks. While it does allow Dell to shave off considerable girth, it means that should you ever need to replace the battery, you’ll have to get your machine serviced. Like all machines in the Vostro line, the V13 comes with a year’s worth of access to a plethora of business-friendly services, including 10GB of online backup, automated PC tuneup, and the DellConnect remote-troubleshooting service.

If your inner business mogul is enticed, you can hop on over to Dell’s website and order your Vostro V13 today. And stay tuned for mote V13 coverage from PC World in the coming days.

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