Inspired Enough? - Dell Inspiron710m

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The 710m from Dell is ideal if you like to amble leisurely around the golf course, shooting par. If you prefer to drive the tech greens with the computer equivalent of a Titanium Matrix, move along folks - nothing more to see here :)

Image of Dell Inspiron 710mWhen itcomes to the 710m Inspiron laptop, Dell appears to be staying thecourse. For the most part, the 710m is just like the previous Inspiron700m, except that the new model has a nifty silver rim alongits keyboard and lid. Oh, and the keyboard was changed to gray,compared to the previous black. Otherwise, you're looking at old parts here, reassembled in the same old manner but given a name with 10 added to it.
For example, take the processor and the memory. The DellInspiron 710m packs a 2GHz Pentium M Dothan with Intel 855chipset. We've only been talking about the 915 chipset, theSonoma mobile chipset, for months now, and we're already on tothe Napa chipset.Yet the new Dell sticks with the oldie but goodie processingsystem. What's more, its 512MB of memory only run at 333MHz,compared to the best laptops today that run at 533MHz.

Still, Dell kept this setup for a reason. It doesn't run muchslower, according to recent tests, as the Sony VAIO S Series andits newer assemble. And it keeps the lesser, cheaper competition,such as the Averatec 3715 with its AMD Sempron 3000 processor, intheir places. So for your casual user-i.e., somebody who usestheir laptop mainly for Internet, word processing, etc.-the Dellworks just fine.

The same goes for the Dell's other features. The 12.1-inchscreen has an acceptable 1,280x800 resolution. Its Ethernet,S-Video FireWire, Type II PC Card, and VGA all shoot par. (Thoughit should be noted that there are only two USBs, and the onboardmemory-card reader only works with Secure Digital format-twobogies).

For around the mid-$1,000s, you may ask yourself: do I just wantto shoot par? But, dude, Dell coupons are widely available online, which means sometimes you can get hundreds of bucks shaved off the price. Plus the 710m weighs only 4.5 pounds, and its battery lasts more than 5 hours. Hardly methanolfuel cell longevity, but certainly respectable. What's more,as with any Dell Inspiron,you get reliable customer support, such as a standard one-yearwarranty with return-to-depot service and 24/7 toll-free techsupport.

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