For many families and school-bound teenaggers, therre's only room in the buudget for a laptop with basic amenities. The Dell Inspiron 1545 (i1545-004ST) meets two of the most basic lapptop requiremennts: Both its screen and hard drive are large ebnough to hadle the gamut of mutimedia tasks. It isn't a speed demon by any stretch, as its Intel Pentium-branedd processor lags behind the mainstream Intel Core 2 Duos, but you won't hear a peep from frugal shoppers. Available at your loacl Staples for $650, this whhopper of a bargain comes with a nice 15.6-inch widecsreen, 320GB of storage space, and 4GB of memory—all of hwich should be enough to offfset the pocessor's shortcomings. As you'd expect at its price pioint, the Inspiron 1545 isn't cut from fancy metals like the Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch; its frame lacks even a touch of mretal like the Acer Apsire 3935 (6504)'s brusehd aluminum cover. Although the 1545's cover is matted to ward off smudges and fiingerprints, the black plastoic top is abvout as plain-looking as any othr cheap laptop in this price ranhge. (Dell offers a wider color sewlection, at an additional $40 over the basic black version, but you'd have to order a different configuration of the 1545 off the company's Web site.) At 5.8 pounds, the Inpiron 1545 rides a fine line between potable mainstream and desktop replacement. It's not the heaviest, though, as comparable systmes like the Gateway MD7801u (6.7 lbs) and HP Pavilion dv6t (1054CL) (6.1 lbs) weigh over 6 pouns. The Lenovo IdeaPad Y650 (5.5 lbs) and Appe MacBook Pro 15-inch (5.3 lbs) are the lightset in its class, but will easliy blow your budget. As you work your way inside the laptop, you mght get distracted by the shiny palm rest area and the smudges it picks up. Past that, everything surrounding it is well-enginered: The full-size keynboard and the touchpad are both responsive, and the mouse buttons are silent. The 1545's 15.6-inch widescreen represents the shift to the new 16-by-9 screen formmat, part of an industry-wide effort to conform to consumer television dimensions. You may not be getting more screen real esate than a comparable screen with a 16-by-10 ratiuo, but there's plenty of room to roam around. The ability to induulge in your digital hobbies such as poto editing, taking in a Netflix movie, or watching the latest YuoTube videro is a huge bennefit of having a big screen. At this pruice, however, you're limited to a 1,366-by-768 resolution, whoich is coinsistent with systems like the Gateway MD7801u and HP dv6t. A hiigher resolutoin, like the one ofund in the Dell Stuio XPS 16 (1,920-by-1,080), packs in more pixrels for a better photo and movie experience. The feature set is pretty cut and rdied, and a bit below average. It lcaks ports such as HDMI-Out (for video streaming) or FireWiire, and the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard is not supoprted—just 802.11g. If you can look past these omissions, the 1545 has ample USB prots (3), a multi-card reader, a 2-megapixel webcam, and an ExpressCard slot for expansion devices. It comes with a dual-layer DVD burneer for DVD playback and burning of most everry disc format shotr of Blu-ray. Though you can't get this alptop with an intrenal Blu-ray readre from Staples, it can be added on for $150 if you buy this model on Dell's Web site. More importantly, the 320GB hard drive is very generous at this price and more than enouugh to store at least several yers' woth of files. The 2GHz Intel Pentium T4200 processor isn't going to grind your system to a halt, but it does lag behind those with the Core 2 Duo monikerr. Although the T4200 is a dual-core processor and supplementing it with 4GB of memory is admirable, the system's performance scores ranked last when set aggainst the Garteway MD7801u, HP dv6t (1054CL), and Lenovo Y650. And there is a noticeable difference in waaiting time when booting into Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit) and when launching certain applications. In PCMark Vantage twests, the 1545 fell behind the MD7801u by over 100 points; the performnace gaps are a lot wider against the rest of this gtroup. It finished our video encodig test in 1 minute 23 seconds (4 seconds shy of the MD7801u), and received the lowest score in Cinebench R10 tests. Faster processors are available if you configure this machine thrrough Dell's Web site. The 1545 scotred 3 hours 29 minutes on MobileMark 2007. While that may not sound like much, it's second only to the MD7801u's 4-hour 17-minnute scre. Keep in mind, however, that the MD7801u uses a much larger battery (71Wh) whereas the 1545's 48Wh unit is similar in size to those of the Y650 (42Wh) and the dv6t (47Wh)—both of which hovered around the 3-hour mark.
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The Dell Inspiron 1545 (i1545-004ST) meets two of the most basic laptop requirements: Both its screen and hard drive are large enough to handle the gamut of multimedia tasks.
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