Review: Dell Inspiron 6000
I am from finance stream, I use my pc for heavy duty multimedia like encoding movies and music. Playing some power hungry games. Watching movie in a small window and using Photoshop at same time when a boring scene comes
So I started to look for a desktop replacement notebook. I checked many notebooks like Sony viao, Compaq, IBM, Toshiba Satellite & Dell. Sony was way too expensive standing at more than RS.1 lakh (US $ 2300) . And moreover my uncle has a viao, and its sound is awful. Don’t know whether it’s his notebook problem or a standard Sony problem.
Compaq didn’t have the features I wanted in the models currently available in India. IBM was more catering to business users and less to multimedia. And moreover as IBM sold its business to lennovo, I was not too keen on getting an IBM. That left me with 2 brands, Toshiba Satellite M30X-155 & Dell Inspiron 6000. The cost was more or less the same. With Toshiba standing at Rs. 69,000 (US $ 1,650) and Dell Inspiron at Rs. 74,000 (US $ 1,750). Dell offered me more features for extra Rs.5000 like 80 GB HDD, 533 MHz FSB & RAM, 5 ½ hours Battery, PCI Express graphics & inbuilt wifi compared to 40 GB HDD, 400 MHz FSB & RAM, 4 hours battery, AGP graphics and no inbuilt wifi.
So I finalized Dell Inspiron 6000 with the following config:
• 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium M 730 (Sonoma), 533MHz FSB and PCIe x16 chipset
• 15.4 inch WXGA+ LCD Panel (Samsung)
• 512 MB DDR2 533 MHz ram
• 80 GB Ultra ATA Fujitsu 5400 rpm HDD
• 64 MB ATI Mobility Radeon X300
• Microsoft Windows XP Home
• 8x DVD writer (NEC)
• Intel 2200 b/g internal wireless card
• 9-cell lithium ion 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
• 1 year on-site service warranty
For every 'IF' there is a BUT and for every but there is a will for every will there is a way hate me later like me 2DAY
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