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Dell Inspiron 9300: Multimedia Mastery |
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It won't be
long before laptops are running
the world. And we're not talking at the behest of their owners.
Notebooks will be the owners! The Dell Inspiron 9300 moves
laptops one step closer to this global domination. The new
Inspiron, though, is not to be feared. It's to be marveled
at. Kidding aside, the Inspiron 9300 takes multimedia mobility to another place - a place made by possible by its Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE 2005) OS. Digital Video Recorder (DVR) capabilities and digital video editing are just two of the features that MCE 2005 empowers the Inspiron to handle. These abilities and more make it easier to excuse the Dell's virtual love handles. (It weighs 8.1 pounds.) |
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You can't complain, for instance, about the Intel Centrino technology and the
nVidia GeForce Go 6800 graphics accelerator, which scored a
2,916 on the 3DMark 2005 at 1024x768 resolution. The 2.0-GHz
Intel Pentium M 760 and 1GB DDR2 RAM don't hurt either.
The Inspiron 9300 ports are heavily armed, too. This Dell laptop offers six USBs,
an S-video, a FireWire, and a DVI-D. Standard, Dell throws in
a DVD+/-RW drive, so you can burn everything you accomplish with
the MCE 2005. If Dell got cheap anywhere, it's exactly where it tried to go cutting-edge. Yes, we're talking the MCE 2005 again. To be able to record television programs adequately, you need a tuner and probably at least 100GB of hard-drive breathing room. Dell makes you upgrade to get these. They only add $149 and $199 to the 9300's price tag, respectively, so it's hardly a deal breaker on a $2800+ computer. That means multimedia moguls have a new laptop to consider. As for the rest of us, we need to keep looking over our shoulders. The computer revolution will not be televised. For the latest pricing and specs visit - www.dell.com By Matthew Brodsky Monday, May 16, 2005 |
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