Published: Monday 23rd November, 2009 | Author: Sylvie Barak
Products: Dell Studio 17
Companies: Dell (All Dell content)
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email to a friendDell appeared to be getting all touchy-feely recently, as the firm launched its new multitouch Studio 17 laptop.
With a display of 17.3-inches (resolution of 1600 x 900), choice of either an Intel Pentium or Core 2 Duo CPU (with the option to upgrade even further to a Core i7), eight Gigabytes of RAM, a terabyte of storage space and a choice of either plain vanilla Intel GMA 4500 IGP or a discrete ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570/HD 4650 video card - the new laptop is nothing to be sniffed at.
Windows 7, of course, adds that all-important multitouch support too, meaning users can pinch, pan, zoom, flip, rotate and edit their media to their heart's content, using nothing but their stubby digits.
The Studio 17 comes with either a DVD drive or an optional Blu-ray drive, and like almost every other laptop out there sports integrated 802.11g WiFi, ports for USB 2.0, a USB/eSATA combo, HDMI connectivity, DisplayPort, a VGA port and FireWire connectors.
The notebook, which can already be bought directly from Dell online, comes with a six-cell battery and various different options for Windows 7, for a basic starting price of $899.
Now, that's touching.
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Must admit that I looked at the Studio 17 but in the end, decided that the 15.6" screen was big enough and for same money prefererred the better graphics card and the extra 2GB ram.
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Actually not very many laptops do come with eSATA or DisplayPort and until recently quite a few lacked HDMI so I think this statement is false. These feature are a big deal to me personally and I'd rather have them than blu-ray for example. That's just me but my point the language used is misleading vs real life experience of these matters.Quote
Still erring toward a Sony VAIO though, but that's just down to me trusting the brand. I actually would bet my first-born son on a VAIO outlasting my need for it =DQuote
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