Dell Inspiron 1150 Review

Inspiron 1150 - Dell's newest laptop

Dell's new Inspiron 1150 is a replacement for its low-end Inspiron 1100. With the lowest price ever and with more power than the old version, this laptop is great for students, for basic computing and just for anyone who wants a laptop on a budget.

It is different from the 1100 in at least three ways: it has an option for pentium 4 (up to 2.66GHz, 512 KB L2 cache, 533MHz front side bus), an option for a built-in wireless card, and it has a new shiny grey color... The Celeron is still a standard processor. Display size, CD/DVD media, hard drive and battery are also configurable.

Just like the 1100, the 1150 comes with integrated Intel Extreme graphics with up to 64 MB of shared memory (852GMV chipset). It also features 2 USB 2.0 ports and can hold up to 1 GB of shared system memory, up to 60GB hard drive, and the 8-cell 65 WHr lithium ion battery is standard.

And just like the 1100, the 1150 Inspiron doesn't offer parallel, serial, or S-Video ports - who needs them anyway...

Pros: cheap, option for Pentium 4, option for built-in Wi-Fi card, both memory sockets are upgradable

Cons: display is XGA only (1024 x 768 resolution), shared graphics memory.

Inspiron 1150 - Features

- CPU: Mobile Intel P4 2.40 or 2.66 GHz1, 512 KB L2 cache, 533MHz front side bus or Intel Celeron 2.40 or 2.60 GHz1, 128 KB L2 cache, 400MHz front side bus
- Memory: 256 MB shared DDR SDRAM standard, upgradable to 1 GB, 266MHz bus frequency, 2 SoDIMM sockets, both are user-accessible
- Hard Drive: 20, 30, 40 or 60 GB Ultra ATA hard drive
- Graphics Card: Integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics
- 14.1" XGA display 1024 x 768 resolution
Height: 1.75" (44.5 mm), Width: 12.9" (329 mm), Depth: 10.8" (275 mm)
Weight: Starting at 7.17 lbs. (3.25kg) with CD, 8-cell battery and hd
- 15" XGA display 1024 x 768 resolution
Height: 1.83" (46.5 mm), Width: 13.1" (335 mm), Depth: 10.8" (275 mm)
Weight: Starting at 7.66 lbs. (3.48kg) with CD, 8-cell battery and hd
- Ports: 2-USB 2.0, VGA, 10/100 Ethernet (RJ-45 connector), Modem (RJ-11 connector)
- Slots: 1 Type I or Type II PCMCIA card
- Audio: Line-out (external speakers/headphone) and external microphone
- Battery: Standard: 8-cell "Smart" Lithium Ion battery (65Whr), Optional: 12-cell "Smart" Lithium Ion battery (94Whr)
- Sound: Integrated stereo sound, built-in front-mounted speakers.
- Optical Devices: Fixed DVD-ROM or CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive or CD/DVD Burner (DVD+RW/+R) Drive. This bay configurable at time of purchase only.
- Floppy Drive: none, optional external USB floppy drive
- Modem: internal 56K
- Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
- Wireless card: optional built-in Dell 1350 (802.11b/g) or Dell 1450 (802.11a/b/g) card
- Touch Pad and buttons

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