How Does This Setup Look?
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 10:43 am
SYSTEM COLOR Jet Black edit
PROCESSOR Intel® Pentium® Dual Core T2330 (1.6GHz/533Mhz FSB/1MB cache) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition edit
DISPLAY Glossy, high contrast, widescreen 14.1 inch display (1280×800) edit
VIDEO CARD Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 edit
MEMORY 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz edit
HARD DRIVE Size: 120GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive) edit
WIRELESS NETWORK CARDS Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini Card edit
INTEGRATED WEBCAM No Camera edit
BATTERY OPTIONS 56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell) edit
SOUND OPTIONS High Definition Audio 2.0
this is the setup i want for my DELL inspiron 1420
think i will be able to run things well and efficently like small games/essays and normal surfing of the internet? also will it be pretty fast and not bog down?
Category: Audio Surf
January 27th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
It’s a reasonable mid-level laptop. Personally I would go with the Latitude (small business) line rather than the Inspiron line, though. In all my time working in IT departments and seeing my friends laptops Latitudes are tougher physically and tend to be built with better components (in terms of construction quality and life expectancy) than the Inspirons. Inspirons also have far more battery difficulty, and generally worse battery life, than Latitudes.
Other than that it will do what you want it to, it won’t be a great performance gaming machine (although it should run most games on lowered settings) but it should handle most things without too much difficulty.
One other recommendation is you may want to consider using Windows XP over Vista. Vista is buggy and terrible at resource management, it will end up using most of your available resources simply to run the operating system.
January 27th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
It will be fine for basic use, but not games. For games, you need 3 gig RAM, 2 gigahertz dual core processor. Vista is designed to use up all your performance, so you have to buy a more expensive computer.
January 28th, 2010 at 12:01 am
It’s a good basic computer…but it won’t play games…unless you’re talking about like internet browser games…it’ll play those.