11/12/10

Dell 1501 Review

Dell 1501 Review

The Dell Inspiron 1501 may possibly be considered a 15.4" widescreen laptop now accessible using the AMD Sempron, Turion or Turion X2 processor. The Inspiron 1501 carries a subset belonging in the direction of the Intel centered Inspiron e1505 competencies and carries identical basic layout and construct as that selected laptop. Unfortunately, Dell minimize competencies near to the Inspiron 1501 but didn't minimize its worth a complete whole lot relative in the direction of the e1505. Unless you in fact want an AMD processor, it's difficult to propose this products over the only slightly a complete whole lot more pricey as well as a complete whole lot better e1505.

The Inspiron 1501 fits a complete whole lot belonging in the direction of the Dell lineup clad in painted silver with bright trim on best as well as a dark underside. The color plan is effortless and there's practically nothing to rave or rant about honestly, I'm not really a tremendous lover belonging in the direction of the bright trim "bumpers" though. Also, as time goes from the most recent Inspiron layout is getting stale, Dell should update their customer pc look, and soon. The Inspiron 1501 is in fact precisely identical start looking and construct since the Inspiron e1505 -- except many advertising buttons are missing by method of the 1501, a complete whole lot more on that later.

In conditions of design, the 1501 is identical in the direction of the E1505. each determine 14 x 10.4 x 1.4 inches and have speakers integrated to the entrance bezel, oxygen vents flanking the left and best sides belonging in the direction of the chassis, huge touchpads with built-in scroll spots (that make for effortless internet web page navigation), 80GB difficult drives, and non-offensive, silver-and-white color schemes. in spite of the fact the fact that 1501 weighs slightly much less (6.4 pounds vs. 6.2 pounds), the deficiency of dedicated CD/DVD controls may possibly be considered a glaring omission, even within a spending budget mainstream machine. When we preferred to improve or decrease the quantity of the digital video disc or skip chapters, we experienced to take advantage of the software's much much less intuitive controls

The 1501 arrived configured getting a six-cell battery, which enabled us to go unplugged for just about any good three several hours and 16 mins of lifestyle with Wi-Fi on, and an even more two mins using the wireless interconnection off. Wireless throughput measured a robust 12.6 Mbps at 15 ft from our entry point, and 13.2 Mbps from 50. This may possibly be considered a slight improvement over the E1505's measurements of twelve Mbps and 9.9 Mbps by method of identical distances.

The display on this Inspiron 1501 could possibly be the WXGA (1280x800) matte screen. all round the display is pretty sharp with wonderful saturated colours and considerable contrast. Brightness is good, following to my daily ThinkPad T43 it unquestionably stands out as getting a complete whole lot better. The light for backlighting is on the bottom belonging in the direction of the screen, you can really feel the bottom belonging in the direction of the display getting slightly cozy as an indicator of this, but brightness leakage is minimal so by looking you couldn't in fact inform in which the brightness is coming from -- in other key phrases the display is evenly lit.

The Inspiron 1501 may possibly be considered a good basic mainstream notebook: the construct is good, the display is nice, as well as the worth is quite decent. But it's hardly an thrilling notebook, appears or element wise. It's a shame Dell took the e1505 offering, watered it reducing element wise, after which offered the AMD processor choice for it. without getting dedicated graphics, a deficiency of advertising buttons, no FireWire and no S-Video Dell has carried out it's job to seperate this by method of the "e" (for entertainment) series. It's obviously not their premium offering. But strangely, the worth belonging in the direction of the 1501 isn't a complete whole lot much less pricey compared to e1505 Intel powered notebook. I can only say anybody thinking about the Inspiron 1501 should be particular to confirm out the Inspiron e1505 as well, it's most in all probability going to provide you with a complete whole lot more bang for that buck and be only slightly a complete whole lot more expensive.

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