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Dell Vostro Laptop Model

Dexter Panganiban — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:27:52 +0000

Dell Vostro is a line of computers from Dell aimed at the small business market. Prior to Vostro, Dell’s home and small business computers were sold under the same lines: Dimension for home and small business desktops, and Inspiron for home and small business portables. With the introduction of Vostro, the Dimension line was retired, and the Inspiron line changed to include all computers for the home market — regardless of form factor.
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Notebooks

The current lineup includes four notebooks, from 9" to 17", both AMD- and Intel-based. All Vostro-laptops are available with either shared memory video card (Intel) or dedicated memory video card (either ATI/AMD-based or NVidia-based). Batteries are available from 29 W·h (Vostro 1000) to 85 W·h (Vostro 1000, 1200, 1400, 1500, 1700, and 1710).

All following models were released on July 10, 2007 worldwide with Vostro 1200 released on Dec 18, 2007. They were aimed at small business customers. All models have a Mylar sealed keyboard and shock sensing StrikeZone technology for hard drive.

Vostro 1000

The Vostro 1000 is Dell’s 15.4" low-end business laptop, similar to the Inspiron 1501.

    * CPU: AMD Mobile Sempron, AMD Turion X2
    * Available OS: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista
    * Display: 15.4" WXGA Anti-Glare, WXGA TrueLife
    * Memory: DDR2-533 – from 1024 MB (1024 MiB) – 2048 MB
    * Hard drive: From 120 GB (120 GiB) (5,400 rpm) to 200 GB (7,200 rpm)
    * Video card: ATI Radeon Xpress 256 MB HyperMemory (integrated)Radeon X1100
    * Battery: 29 W h 4-cell Lithium Ion battery, 53 W h 6-cell Lithium Ion battery, 85 W h 9-cell Lithium Ion battery
    * Price: from £169 ex. VAT and shipping, approx £270 inc. VAT and shipping (UK VAT +17.5%)

Vostro 1200

The Vostro 1200 is Dell’s 12.1" business laptop, based on Intel’s Santa Rosa Platform.

    * CPU: Intel Celeron, Core 2 Duo
    * Available OS: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
    * Display: 12.1" WXGA Anti-Glare, WXGA TrueLife, WXGA+ TrueLife
    * Memory: DDR2-667 – from 1024 MB – 4096 MB
    * Hard drive: From 80 GB (5,400 rpm) to 160 GB (5,400 rpm)
    * Video card: Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
    * Battery: 56 W h 6-cell Lithium Ion battery
    * Other: 2.0 megapixel webcam, biometric fingerprint reader

Vostro 1310

The Vostro 1310 is Dell’s 13.3" business laptop, based on Intel’s Santa Rosa Platform . A solution against the competing Apple Inc.’s Macbook

Vostro 1400

The Vostro 1400 is Dell’s 14.1" business laptop, based on Intel’s Santa Rosa Platform. Similar to the Inspiron 1420.

    * CPU: Intel Celeron, Core 2 Duo
    * Available OS: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
    * Display: 14.1" WXGA Anti-Glare, WXGA TrueLife, WXGA+ TrueLife
    * Memory: DDR2-667 – from 2048 MB – 4096 MB
    * Hard drive: From 80 GB (5,400 rpm) to 320 GB (5,400 rpm)
    * Video card: Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS (880MB)
    * Battery: 56 W h 6-cell Lithium Ion battery, 85 W h 9-cell Lithium Ion battery

Vostro 1500

The Vostro 1500 is Dell’s 15.4" business laptop, based on Intel’s Santa Rosa Platform. Similar to the Inspiron 1520.

    * CPU: Intel Celeron, Core 2 Duo
    * Available OS: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista
    * Display: 15.4" WXGA Anti-Glare, WXGA TrueLife, WXGA+ TrueLife, WSXGA+ TrueLife
    * Memory: DDR2-667 – from 1024 MB – 4096 MB
    * Hard drive: From 80 GB (5,400 rpm) to 320 GB (5,400 rpm)
    * Video card: Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS (128MB) or 8600M GT
    * Battery: 56 W h 6-cell Lithium Ion battery, 85 W h 9-cell Lithium Ion battery
    * Other: 2.0 megapixel webcam, bluetooth

Vostro 1510

The Vostro 1510 is Dell’s 15.4" business laptop, based on Intel’s Santa Rosa Platform

    * CPU: Core 2 Duo, Celeron M
    * Available OS: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista
    * Display: 15.4" WXGA Anti-Glare, WXGA TrueLife, WXGA+ TrueLife, WSXGA+ TrueLife
    * Memory: from 1024 MB – 4096 MB
    * Hard drive: From 60 GB (5,400 rpm) to 320 GB (5,400 rpm)
    * Video card: Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS (128MB) or 8600M GT
    * Other: 1.3 megapixel webcam, bluetooth additional screen

Vostro 1700

The Vostro 1700 is Dell’s 17" high-end business laptop, based on Intel’s Santa Rosa Platform. Similar to the Inspiron 1720.

    * CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo
    * Available OS: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
    * Display: 17" WXGA+, WUXGA+ TrueLife
    * Memory: DDR2-667 – from 1024 MB – 4096 MB
    * Hard drive: From 250 GB (5,400 rpm) to 500 GB (5,400 rpm). There are two SATA hard drive bays.
    * Video card: Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS (128MB), Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT (256MB)
    * Battery: 56 W h 6-cell Lithium Ion battery, 85 W h 9-cell Lithium Ion battery

Vostro 1710

The Vostro 1710 is Dell’s 17" business laptop, based on Intel’s Santa Rosa Platform

Vostro 2510

The Vostro 2510 is one of Dell’s 15,4" business laptops. It was launched in the summer of 2008. One of its added features in comparison with the Vostro 1510 is the possibility to have BluRay optical drive.

Vostro A Series

Dell’s low cost, economic line of laptops for businesses. Lately, A860 model offered in USA due to the global recession.

    * Vostro A840 (Intel) – 14.1"
    * Vostro A860 (Intel) – 15.6" (Only A series currently offered in USA)
    * Vostro A90 (Intel) – 8.9"

ASUS spices things up with 16-inch F50 / 17.3-inch F70 laptops

Dexter Panganiban — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:08:44 +0000

The new F50 and F70 lines from ASUS, but upon further investigation, each family does actually do a decent job of differentiating. Both crews sport the "new generation Infusion styling," which is reportedly exactly like looking at the Aurora Borealis (really, ASUS?), and they also boast Full HD (1080p) panels, an HDMI port and a fresh "Chocolate keyboard". The whole lot also features the Express Gate instant-on OS, and hardware geeks will appreciate the upwards of 1TB of HDD space and optional Blu-ray drive.

source { http://www.engadget.com }

MSI U115

Dexter Panganiban — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:19:34 +0000

Here is what new from MSI

The MSI U115 will be available with 8 GB or 16 GB SSDs, which will be combined with 120 GB or 160 GB hard drives, respectively. The operating system runs from the SSD, while the hard drive is primarily intended for file storage. Equipped with a 6-cell battery, the U115 is promised to last about 12 hours on one battery charge.
Including a 10” widescreen LCD and an integrated 1.3 or 2.0 megapixel webcam, the U115 weighs just over 2 pounds. Availability and prices were not announced.
Also new is the U120 netbook that can be equipped with 3.5G or WiMax connectivity. No word on pricing yet.

Really CES has lots to show

Pics and news Source : tgdaily

HP Mini 2140 Netbook

Dexter Panganiban — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:35:30 +0000

So HP is introducing new Line of Netbook and HP 2140 is their latest one. More about this New HP Mini 2140 at my Main Blog.

CES 2009 : New Netbooks, Laptops from Asus

Dexter Panganiban — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:44:10 +0000

Asus also introduced New line of Netbook and Laptops. Asus introduced a number of new laptops at CES 2009. Among them are an ultraportable that runs like a race car (the Lamborghini VX5), a tablet PC (the Eee PC T91), and an even slimmer, sleeker netbook. We can say that the high-style Lamborghini VX5 is a premium machine. The VX5 is largely black, with yellow highlights inside and a whole lot of Italian leather stitched into the carbon-fiber chassis.

Other highlights include a backlit keyboard/mouse combo and an ambient-light sensor akin to what you see on the MacBook Air. Revving underneath the hood (and you think I’m just being metaphorical…when you powered up the VX3, you’d hear a car roar) is an Intel quad-core processor, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, room for two SATA hard drives, and "the latest GPU."

Besides being able to run Windows Vista on its 16-inch, 1920-by-1080-pixel display, the VX5 also offers an ExpressGate mode; this Linux shell boots up in 8 seconds and provides access to the most basic multimedia and online functions. Among the other features are a 2-megapixel Webcam, a TV tuner, and 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR support. That’s saying nothing of the wireless broadband built into the device, and the fact that it is WiMax-ready.

Asus’s second model, is the S121, technically isn’t a netbook. Nor is it a further refinement of the already-refined N10Jc, according to Asus. The less-than-an-inch-thick metallic frame with leather trim houses a machine that attempts to fill the void between netbook and notebook. While the S121 does have an Atom processor, nobody will mistake it for a budget box after a look at its 12.1-inch, LED, active-matrix TFT, 1280-by-800-pixel display (presented with edge-to-edge glass) and its roomy 128GB solid-state drive. the S121, Asus claims, can survive upward of 10 hours on an internal and external battery working together.

The S121 could be a great, lightweight (about 2.6 pounds), road-ready companion. But it will be facing a lot of stiff competition in the coming year, from, say, the surfacing of a new tweener class of portables using everything from nVidia’s Ion platform to Via Nano processors and whatever else AMD has to show off.

The other big laptop coming from Asus’s stables is the only one clinging to the Eee name: the Eee PC T91 Tablet. Think of it as a touch-screen variant of the 8.9-inch, 901-series models that broke out on the scene in 2008. This hybrid netbook operates the same way as full-blown convertible laptops do, offering a screen capable of rotating 180 degrees. The T91 will offer built-in GPS functionality, a TV tuner, and an FM transmitter. It has the potential to be one well-rounded, affordable, portable entertainer.

So here you are and more to be revealed this week with CES 2009.

CES 2009: MSI to showcase slim notebook and all-in-one PCs

Dexter Panganiban — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:21:54 +0000

There is also new items from MSI In addition to introducing the new U series netbooks, Micro-Star International (MSI) will launch the new Wind Neton all-in-one PCs, X-Slim series and G series notebooks at CES 2009.

The MSI X-Slim series X320 is equipped with the latest Intel platform and a 13.4-inch display of the 16:9 aspect ratio. The notebook’s overall thickness is 1.98cm with the thinnest part being only 6mm, while the notebook only weights around 1.3kg. { Pretty Thin }

In addition to the U115 Hybrid netbook, MSI will launch the U120 netbook that provides WiMAX capability.

MSI will showcase four new Wind Neton all-in-one PCs, the 22-inch AE2203, and 19-inch AP1900, AE1901 and AP1902. The AE1901 is equipped with the dual-core Atom processor, while the AE2203 comes with multimedia and entertainment functions, and supports full HD.

The company will also showcase the CD130 nettop that adopts a dual-core Atom processor, and the G series gaming notebooks GT725, GT727, GT627 and GX420.

MSI X-Slim series X320 notebook
Photo: Company

MSI U120 netbook with WiMAX capability
Photo: Company

MSI Wind Neton all-in-one PC
Photo: Company

Source : http://www.digitimes.com

Wait for Adamo Dell

Dexter Panganiban — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:53:00 +0000

Adamo for Dell Coming Soon ? Until now there is no much news about Adamo, We only know that it will be thinner than Macbook Air. But will it really surpass the capability of MacBook Air.

Adamo Dell is now the talk of the town.