Dell Laptops Brand Review
Dell is a well-known manufacturer of laptop computers. Dell doesn’t have any direct sales outlets. If you want to buy a Dell Laptop, you need to call their customer care centers and inform them about your requirement. In fact, Dell also allows you to decide the configuration of your laptop. You can log onto their web site and select different components for your laptop. After selecting all required components, you will be displayed the purchase price of the associated configuration. You can remove and add components before you finalize the configuration.
Now, let’s have a look at some of the popular laptops presented by Dell.
Dell Inspiron Mini 9: The Dell Mini is similar to the ASUS Eee PC 901 and the HP Mini 9. This system was designed on the theme made popular by Asus Eee PC line, low power, small inexpensive systems. The Dell Mini 9 is a Netbook style laptop, which comes with 16 GB Solid State Drive, 1 GB of RAM and Windows XP as operating system. You can also get a trimmed down version of Mini 9 having 512 MB of RAM, low-resolution web camera 4GB/8GB of SSD with Ubuntu Linux Operating system. This version comes at a lower price than the regular Dell Mini 9 version.
Dell also allows you to include Bluetooth capabilities in Mini 9 version, which results in increase in base price of the model. The Dell Mini 9 has a glossy black finish. It is also available in white colour. The Dell Mini 9 is thinner than Asus’ 9-inch Eee PC and Dell has done a commendable job while incorporating a keyboard with fairly large keys.
The Dell Mini 9 boasts of 8.9-inch 1,024X600-pixel screen with a webcam and two speakers above the screen area. The display offered is enough for viewing word documents and displaying the web pages.
The Dell Mini has higher number of interfaces in comparison to HP Mini or Asus Eee PC. The Dell Mini has three USB ports with separate Mic and headphone jacks.
Dell XPS Gen 5: Dell is one of the few manufacturers, which offers top-of the line multimedia and gaming machine in a portable format. The XPS Gen 5 is the first machine to feature dual core Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor. The default high clock speed (3.2 GHz) of the processor makes it a suitable for running multi-threaded digital applications and heavy multi-tasking environment. The XPS Gen 5 allows you to record TV as well as write and burn DVDs.
The Gen 5 XPS can be configured with anyone of the Microsoft Windows XP/Media/Professional Editions operating system. The Gen 5 also features Dual TV-Tuner with a remote control setup. The Gen 5 XPS comes with 500 GB of storage with a support for additional 3 drives in RAID configuration, which extends the capacity of system to 1.5TB.
Dell believes in providing personal customer service and tries to reach customer personally when not possible through other mediums of communication. Dell firmly believes in concept of “Power User” and hence provides the user the ability to configure his own product. The success of Dell is due to its innovative sales strategy, as they eliminate intermediaries and provides products that are high on features and build quality.