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Dell Inspiron 1720 : As You Like It

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Dell Inspiron 1720With the Inspiron 1720, Dell ups the ants in the super-performance notebook category.A 17 incher, the Inspiron 1720 is quite bulky, but the good design hides this.You get to choose from eight colors for the lid-jet black and seven other satin finishes.The custom paint job, however, is modest, and will not last too long.
The 17-inch glossy wide screen(1920 x 1200) panel is beautiful; color reproduction is vibrant, and it has a wide viewing angle. The full-sized keyboard is a delight to type on-silent and great tactile response. The Matshita BD-RE UJ-220 Blu-ray drive means you won’t need to upgrade the optical drive in a long, long time! However, DVI as well as HDMI connectivity has been left out-criminal.500 GB of storage should be enough for most users, and 4 GB of RAM is adequate for most application, games, and for the bundled Microsoft Vista Home premium. The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB powers the graphics subsystem; a score of 5318 in 3D Mark 05 is very good indeed. This Inspiron churned out 96.4 fps and 65.31 fps in Doom 3 and FarCry respectively at 800*600-decent for moderate gamers.
In terms of performance, the Dell Inspiron 1720 scores better then the Digit Best Buy Gold winner (the HPDV6226tx) in the performance Laptops category of our July 2007 laptop test. The 85 Wh nine cell battery managed to power this beast for 2:48 hours in our tests. The Inspiron 1720 can be configured at Dell’s Web site. The base price for the Inspiron 1720 series starts from Rs 58,650-price varies according to the components you choose. The laptop carries a one-year warranty with the option of on-site support for up to three years.

Specifications:
CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo T 7500(2.2GHz)
Screen : 17-inch wide screen XVGA
Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256MB
Hard Disk : 500 GB SATA hard drive
RAM : 4 GB DDR2 667MHz RAM
Battery : 85 Wh batterypack

Popularity: 18% [?]

Acer Aspire 3684NWXCi : Good for the Price

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Acer Aspire 3684NWXCiThe Acer Aspire 3684NWXCi laptop is for value conscious buyers. With a silver and black exterior, it looks quite presentable. Though slim and design, the Acer 3684 weights in at 2.4kg – moderately heavy.
Ergonomically speaking, the keyboard is well laid out, however, the keystrokes are bit hard, touch typists should try it before deciding to buy it.
An Intel Celeron M440 at 1.86 GHz runs the laptop, and that’s partly responsible for the low price. The Aspire 3684 has 512MB of DDR2 RAM – we’re all praise for Acer for being so generous! Having an 80GB Hard Drive with a combo DVD/CD drive is praiseworthy., considering the price.
In PC Mark 05 – a synthetic test that measures overall system performance – performance was decent; the score was 2121, good for a budget category laptop. 388 points in 3D Mark 06 means the laptop is good enough for games like Quake 3, Counterstrike: Source, and Call of Duty. Our real world tests revealed enough power to multi-task between regular applications such as media players, word processing applications, browsers, etc.
The Six cell Li-ion battery pack managed to power the Aspire 3684 for 2 hours and 18 minutes which is reasonable, but expect more time in real world usage because our battery test is grueling.
HD video playback (1080p WMV) is smooth. The wide screen 14.1 inch TFT renders sharp images with good contrasts. Acer doesn’t miss out on connectivity option in this budget offering – you get wired and wireless networking as well as bluetooth.
The Acer Aspire 3684 comes pre loaded with Linpus Linux, which has a command line interface, thankfully, Acer does bundle Windows XP and Vista drivers alongside just in case you feel like installing (an original copy of ) Windows.
Priced at $549, we think the Aspire gives other brands a run for their money. The lack of a proper OS is the only chink in its armour; otherwise, everything seems to be on target for the value conscious.

Specification at a Glance:
CPU : Intel Celeron M440
RAM : 512MB DDR2 533MHz
Monitor : 14.1 inch widescreen TFT
Optical Drives : DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
Hard Drive : 80GB SATA hard disk
Dimensions : 14.3×10.8×1.3 (WxDxH) inches.
Weight : 2.4 KG

Popularity: 35% [?]