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Highest cost-effective notebook Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop Merom+X1400

The Dell Inspiron 6400 is a very good notebook with decent options at a reasonable price. The Core Duo 1.86 is perfect for multitasking. Gaming on the 6400 with the x1400 should be fine for the occasional gamer, not for hardcore gamers. The lowest option for the screen was impressive, which means higher options should be excellent. Battery life is decent, but could be better. I may be looking into buying a spare battery soon. The layout of the keyboard is perfect for typing and should fit your lifestyle. Overall, I recommend this notebook for anyone looking for a great performing laptop for a reasonable price
Dell Inspiron 6400 is always one of the most cost-effective dell laptop model Start from the use of Intel "Napa" Platform. At present, Inspiron 6,400 has been upgraded to the latest Core 2 Duo processor, as well as other notebook, dell also provides a user-defined configuration services, consumers can according to their own needs and budget adjustments to the configuration.

Before we begin reviewing anything, here are the specs of my system:

Intel Core Duo T2400 / 5 Mb Cache / 1.83 GHz / 667 MHZ FSB
15.4″ Wide-screen XGA Display with Truelife
120 Gb 5400 rpm Sata Hard Drive
1 Gb DDR2 SDRAM / 553 MHZ
256 Mb ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Hyper memory
Windows XP Media Center
9 – Cell Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery

Build & Design:

The appearance design of this Inspiron 6400 has a characteristic very much..The fuselage shell adopts metal silver and white, accord with home entertainment type style, in addition, screen cover support custom style, you can choose navy blue, leather, wood fiber or appearance.
The body size for Inspiron 6400 is 35.6 26.6 x x 3.7 cm, weight achieved 28 kg.

It's portability is not very good, But it is also for this reason that the strength of the body structure is very high. The Inspiron 6400 has a very humanized design of the function, in front of the fuselage edge, there are seven MediaDirect button (to boot into Media Center without Windows), Power, and Status Lights (Num, Caps, Scroll Lock, and WiFi). The keyboard is very user friendly and I have no problems with it, There is very little keyboard flex, which is good. just feel a bit hard when typing. The touchpad is very responsive and is good enough to use if you don't have a mouse nearby. The scroll feature on the right and bottom side of the touchpad is very useful. They replicate the scroll wheel most standard mice have.

The display is the most important fittings of notebook computer. The WSXGA 15.4 inch Inspiron 6,400 WSXGA+ TFT-LCD display performance is satisfactory, 1440×900 pixels to the high resolution image is very fine, and excellent brightness and contrast, is great for playing games and watching movies. The wide-screen is very nice and is everything that I expected. The screen is good enough so people can gather around and watch a movie with no problems. Something to watch out for is fingerprints.

The Inspiron 6400's external port is very rich, There are 4 USB 2.0 ports split between the back and the right side. This is very useful to plug in devices such as Mice and Presentation Pointers. There is an S-Video port and VGA for external display. Ethernet and Model port is also at the back, when close to a Router/High Speed Modem. When discussing Ports/Buttons, the feature I love the most are the media buttons in the front. You can close the laptop and have the ability to change songs. The next best thing is the TV Tuner w/ remote! Although port with well equipped, but distribution is concentrated, there will cause some inconvenience when using.

Performance Testing:

In the first 3DMark06 tests, Inspiron 6400 graphics drive in the default Settings only got 1165, even with the best performance video driver will only increase 3 points. It looks the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 video card performance is not suitable for complicated 3D game play.

The mobile performance of is satisfactory, In MobileMark 2005, the total score reached 264, Inspiron 6400 battery duration reached 246 minutes. On the setting of moderate Screen brightness, highest Volume, the continuous reached 155 minutes for DVD player. But note that all of these results are not activate the CPU power management function of the situation. It seems 9-cell Dell Inspiron 6400 battery better than 6 Standard cell battery, but the choice of hi-capacity Dell 6400 battery pay more.

In PCMark05 test the performance of Inspiron 6400 got 2705 points, the CPU performance got 5068 points, EMS memory performance got 3917 points, hard disk 2863, graphics 623. From tests can see display card is still the most weak links. But scoring complies with the hardware of performance..
In the test, I found Inspiron 6400 equipped with the philips SDVD8820 DVD + R/RW cause quite large noise at runtime. Cooling fan noise is very small, hear any sound at runtime. Heat is a small issue. After a while, the laptop gets noticeably warm. I can't back up this claim, but I think the bigger Dell Inspiron 6400 battery may have something to do with it. I haven't tried yet, but maybe accessing the fans and having them run more frequently may solve the problem. It's worth a try.

Conclusion:

Through testing the dell Inspiron 6400 each performance Are balanced, The Core Duo 1.86 is perfect for multitasking. Gaming on the 6400 with the x1400 should be fine for the occasional gamer, not for hardcore gamers. The lowest option for the screen was impressive, which means higher options should be excellent. Battery life is decent, but could be better. I may be looking into buying a spare dell inspiron 6400 battery soon. The layout of the keyboard is perfect for typing and should fit your lifestyle. High-end configuration plus dell's excellent product quality assurance, it can really say Inspiron 6400 on the market at present is the highest cost-effective notebook.
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Is the main difference between the Inspiron line and the XPS line the motherboard?

After setting each model with roughly the same specs, I noticed that they were still a few hundred dollars apart. Is this because of the motherboard and power supply?
Read the question. I said I put them at the same specs.
Can you give a source for that? I seriously doubt tech support is worth a few hundred dollars.

The motherboards are actually the same. Power supplies make a small difference, but maybe like $50 at the most. The cases are also a little more expensive to make for the XPS than the Inspiron.

The biggest difference is tech support. Dell has better support for XPS than they do for the mainstream consumer computer lines.

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