Dell Inspiron 6000 Reviews

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Dell Inspiron 6000
The original configuration we have a tendency to reviewed oversubscribed for concerning $1,700 back in February; during this review we have a tendency to take a glance at a considerably more cost-effective $972 configuration.

The dingle Inspiron 6000 could be a midsize portable computer with AN diversion slant. the look is kind of like that found on variety of different dingle laptops, as well as the Inspiron 9300 and therefore the XPS M140. The notebook is lightweight silver with a white trim, and it measures concerning one.5 inches thick, fourteen inches across, and simply but ten.5 inches deep. The keyboard is firm and adequately responsive, and it's large enough to figure on well. Below the keyboard could be a nice-size bit pad with 2 huge mouse buttons. Our take a look at unit weighed six.6 pounds, or 7.5 pounds with the compact AC adapter--about average for a midsize and just about lightweight enough for comfy travel. Overall, the case feels fairly durable, although the lid offers quite an bit after you strike on that. we have a tendency to just like the silver media-control buttons that line the case's front edge. they are accessible even once the notebook's lid is closed, and you'll use them to regulate the degree (or mute) and toggle through tracks on a CD or scenes on a videodisc. 2 stereo speakers conjointly sit on the Inspiron 6000's front edge; they were louder and clearer than your average portable computer speakers.

Our take a look at unit featured a fifteen.4-inch broad show with a one,280x800 native resolution. The show looked a bit dim to United States of America, notably round the edges, and that we left it at its brightest setting; we're keeping an eye fixed on the recent rash of client complaints concerning Dell's notebook screens, however we have a tendency to did not notice any vital issues with the Inspiron 6000's.

Connectivitywise, the Inspiron 6000 offers close to everything a mean home user can want. You get a electro-acoustic transducer ANd electro-acoustic transducer jack; a Secure Digital card reader; an S-Video output for connecting to a TV; VGA resolute connect with a monitor; four USB a pair of.0 ports (two on the proper edge, 2 in back); a four-pin, unpowered FireWire port; and one PCI categorical card slot, that there are not any real applications nonetheless. you furthermore may get electronic equipment and LAN connections, in addition as intrinsical 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. Our take a look at unit was designed with a handy double-layer, multiformat videodisc burner, that additional $150 to the price of the machine. dingle does not embrace a lot of within the means of software; other than Microsoft Windows XP Home, you furthermore may get WordPerfect and a few basic photo-editing computer code.

Our review unit was designed around a one.6GHz Pentium M 725 processor and 512MB of DDR2 RAM; the system's integrated graphics borrow up to 128MB of system memory. With a 60GB drive, we have a tendency to got double the maximum amount storage as from the first unit, however dingle deflate on the optical drive; we have a tendency to got a CD-RW/DVD-ROM dance band in situ of a double-layer DVD±RW. The new, more cost-effective unit conjointly had a six-cell battery rather than a nine-cell.


The Inspiron 6000's performance was smart, landing it a competitive score on CNET Labs' MobileMark 2002 benchmark that rivaled the punchy magnoliopsid genus TravelMate 2350 and therefore the entranceway NX500X (a.k.a the entranceway M360X). however wherever the Acer's battery crapped out once 2 hours, the Inspiron 6000's ran for three hours and forty five minutes. (If you propose to travel frequently with the Inspiron 6000, we have a tendency to powerfully suggest administering $129 for the nine-cell lithium-ion battery, that ought to provide you with even longer removed from the wall socket).

As a part of our $972 configuration, dingle enclosed a annual parts-and-labor guarantee with fee, 24-hour school support. Take note: the corporate has deflate its customary guarantee to simply ninety days, looking on the configuration you decide on, and that we suggest administering for a minimum of a year. Toll-free, 24/7 phonephone support conjointly lasts for simply a year. dingle offers a protracted list of guarantee extension choices, as well as onsite repair, night and weekend service, and accidental-damage coverage--but they are pricey. the simplest a part of Dell's support computing device is that the client forum, wherever users will head to get facilitate from different Inspiron homeowners, in addition as from dingle reps World Health Organization moderate the forum. Otherwise, the positioning offers the everyday knowledge domain and downloads sections.


Battery life


BAPCo MobileMark 2005 battery-life minutes
Gateway NX500X418
Dell Inspiron 6000 (Jan 05)217
Dell Inspiron 6000 (Nov 05)191
Acer TravelMate 2350121
System configurations:
Acer TravelMate 2350
Windows XP Pro; one.4GHz Celeron M 360 one.4GHz; 512MB DDR SDRAM PC2700 333MHz; Intel 82852/82855 64MB; Hitachi Travelstar 80GN 60GB four,200rpm

Dell Inspiron 6000 (Jan 05)
Windows XP Pro; one.6GHz Intel Pentium M 730; 512MB DDR2 SDRAM PC3200 400MHz; Intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML categorical 128MB; Hitachi Travelstar 40GNX 40GB five,400rpm

Dell Inspiron 6000 (Nov 05)
Windows XP Home; one.6GHz Intel Pentium M 730; five12MB DDR2 SDRAM PC3200 400MHz; Intel 915GM/GMS 910GML categorical 128MB; Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 60GB 5,400rpm

Gateway NX500X
Windows XP Pro; one.86GHz Intel Pentium M 750; 512MB DDR2 SDRAM 400MHz; Intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML categorical 64MB; Hitachi Travelstar fourK40 40GB 4,200rpm

This is one among the simplest notebooks you'll presently get for fewer than $1,000 ($999 at time of testing), and is our new Editors' selection for desktop-replacement worth notebooks.

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The notebook isn't specifically skinny and lightweight, at 7.0 pounds, however you are doing get a fifteen.4-inch widescreen show, that is nice for film look. (If you are looking for a smaller worth notebook to travel with, check up on our light-weight EU winner, the Averatec AV3270-EE1.) a group of videodisc player controls sit within the front panel (Play/Pause, Stop, Rwd, Fwd, Volume Control). The Inspiron 6000 conjointly comes with the dingle Media expertise computer code for organizing and managing digital media.
This system has everything the worth notebook user wants. just like the smaller and lighter Averatec AV3270-EE1, it comes with a DVD±RW—a rare worth giving. The Inspiron 6000 includes a multitude of property choices, as well as four USB ports, FireWire and S-Video Out ports, ANd an SD slot. To high it all off, it conjointly includes a quick, 60GB 5,400-rpm drive rather than the slower four,200-rpm drives offered by its peers.

The Inspiron 6000 was the sole one that might gather a sub-$1,000 system with Intel's latest-generation Centrino solution—Pentium M 730 (1.6GHz) with 512MB DDR2 four hundred RAM, and 128MB Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 gramme. This dance band rocketed the Inspiron's performance to the highest, well past the Averatec AV3270-EE1 with its one.6-GHz Mobile AMD Sempron 2800+ and therefore the HP collapsible shelter ze2001 with a last-generation, 1.5-GHz Pentium M 715. The Inspiron's BatteryMark score was a awfully spectacular five hours fifty two minutes.

Dell has ne'er hit the worth sweet spot like this before, continuously trumped by its competition. now around, however, things area unit totally different. simply bear in mind that the sub-$1,000 tag is barely obtainable if you record Dell's e-code (1111-i6000PC), for a restricted time solely. (You cannot piece this method for this value on the positioning.) With this in mind, even the foremost economical shoppers can realize it laborious to pass up the Inspiron 6000.

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Multimedia Tests

PC Magazine uses constant tests and therefore the same scale once rating the multimedia—Music, Photos, Video, Gaming—on desktops and notebooks. we have a tendency to do that thus it's straightforward to match shopper notebooks against shopper desktops additionally to comparisons among every class. As a guide: the simplest desktops can score on top of a ninety on a given subject, and therefore the best notebooks can score on top of a seventy. the rationale for this is often even the foremost advanced notebook can got to surrender some capabilities, compared to a desktop, for portability: notably size and weight compromises that have an effect on drive area and screen size, in addition as power compromises that have an effect on C.P.U. and graphics performance.

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General

System kind                          Notebook
OS Provided                        Microsoft Windows XP skilled
Service & Support               one year guarantee
Notebook kind                     Mid-size laptops (6-7.5 lbs.)
Screen kind                          Widescreen
Wireless capabilities              IEEE 802.11g,
                                            Bluetooth,
                                            IEEE 802.11b

Processor / Chipset

CPU                                    Intel Pentium M 740 / one.6 GHz
Cache                                  L2 cache - a pair of.0 MB
Front aspect Bus                  533.0 MHz
Chipset                                Intel 915GM/PM
Platform Technology            Intel Centrino
Features                              Power-optimized processor system bus,
                                           Enhanced SpeedStep technology,
                                           Execute Disable Bit capability

Memory

RAM                                   512.0 MB ( a pair of x 256 MB )
Max RAM Supported          a pair of.0 GB
Technology                          DDR2 SDRAM
Speed                                  400.0 megahertz / PC2-3200
Form issue                          thus DIMM 200-pin
Slots Qty a pair of
Empty Slots zero.0

Storage

Floppy Drive                        None
Hard Drive                           sixty.0 GB HDD / 5400.0 rpm
Storage Removable              None
Optical Drive                        DVD-ROM
Read Speed                          8x
Optical Drive                       (2nd) None
Hard drive kind                   transportable

Display

Type                                   15.4 in
Max Resolution                   1680 x 1050 ( WSXGA+ )
Widescreen                        affirmative

Audio & Video

Graphics Processor         PCI categorical - ATI quality RADEON X300 PCI categorical - 128.0 MB
Compliant Standards       Sound working man,
                                       AC '97
Input

Type                              Touchpad,
                                      Keyboard

Communications

Wireless                       802.11b/g,
                                    Bluetooth
Wireless Controller       Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
Network Interface        10/100 LAN

Modem

Protocols & Specifications                 ITU V.92
Max Transfer Rate                            fifty six.0 Kbps

Battery

Technology                                      metal particle
Installed Qty                                   one.0
Capacity                                         ninety six.0 Wh

AC Adapter

Voltage needed                              AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 rate )
Output                                           65.0 Watt

Connections & enlargement

Slots                                             1.0 x Memory ( one.0 free ),
                                                    2.0 x laptop Card ( zero.0 free )
Interfaces                        one.0 x Network - LAN 10Base-T/100Base-TX - fifteen pin HD D-Sub (HD-15),
                                      1.0 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) - VGA - RJ-45,
                                      1.0 x Hi-Speed USB - S-video output - four pin USB blood type,
                                      4.0 x show / video - connecter - RJ-11,
                                     1.0 x show / video,
                                     1.0 x Modem
Memory Card Reader    Card reader ( SD Memory Card )

Software

Software enclosed            Drivers & Utilities

Miscellaneous

Features                        Intel PRO/Wireless

Dimensions & Weight

Width                            13.9 in
Depth                            10.2 in
Height                            1.5 in
Weight                           6.6 lbs

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