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Dell Inspiron 6400 review

The design of the Inspiron 6400 is a desktop replacement notebook, offering up the familiar silver and white accented design that is common to the Inspiron line. Not exactly wonderful, but certainly not ashamed of Tote around while in the public eye.

Being a cheaper laptop, the 6400 chassis is built in its Most soft plastic, so scratches and dents can be a problem for those who use their notebooks at random.

Regardless, probably 6400 will remain on your desk most of its existence. Its Heft 2.8kg is far from featherweight, and you start to complain after walking with her for 20 minutes or more. Mobility is fine for shorter distances, but it is true can only be found in a sub-2kg supply and the Sony Vaio Vgn-TX27GP.

Stereo speakers are mounted on the front of the unit, so that sound is muffled when the lid is closed. Flanked by speakers said there was a row of multimedia shortcut buttons, allowing users to navigate through your audio / video files without having to put a finger on the mouse.

The trackpad is large and offers so much vertical and horizontal displacement, while the keyboard takes up much of the width of the chassis and is easy to write. The left and right buttons are also large, but do not offer a reassuring "click" when depressed, it took a while to get used to.

Another peculiarity of minor design is the fact that the headphones and microphone are placed on the right side of the chassis, and the resulting string can interfere with external mouse movement.

Features With a starting price of just AU $ 1499, Dell Inspiron 6400 is at the top of the entry-level notebook category. However, its role as a means rank-one challenges this market segmentation - the base model packs an Intel Core Duo T2300, 512 MB DDR2 memory and a 60GB hard drive. Since Dell builds their machines to end users who have more money to spend can choose up to a Core Duo T2600 processor, 2GB of memory and a 100GB hard drive.

The model tested included an Intel Core Duo 2600, 1GB of memory and a 80GB hard drive and a 256MB ATI Radeon X1400 graphics chip. A 6400 with these specifications will set AU $ 3189 behind.

6400 Dell touted as a "mobile entertainment", the drive, but this assertion must be qualified. The laptop can be equipped with an 8x double-layer DVD-RW (though the AU $ 1598 model is limited to a 24X CD-RW/DVD Combo drive), so of course can be used for breeding DVD. However, game is somewhat limited, because the base configuration is hampered by an Intel graphics chip, while the top-end model we tested includes a chip ATI Radeon X1400, which runs the latest games struggle to smooth frame rates. That said, the 15.4-inch widescreen is suitable for viewing movies and games, thanks to its high resolution of 1680x1050 and the aspect ratio widescreen.

Despite being on the cheaper side, the 6400 came equipped with a number of useful multimedia features normally reserved for high-end offerings. To begin with, has a 5-in-1 memory card reader (MS, MS Pro, SD / SDIO, MMC and xD), while the TV-out support is provided by a S-Video port. There's even a Firewire connection for connecting your digital camcorder, while ensures that an ExpressCard slot supporting the next generation of portable expansion cards. Finally, 6400 is taking the snapshot MediaDirect Dell technology that enables one-button access to digital media stored on your own computer or attached devices.

Connectivity Options mandatory to include the 802.11a wireless / g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but no infrared.

On the implementation of the whole of our satisfaction with the performance from that of 6400. He spent MobileMark2005 our office productivity tests with flying colors, landing a score of 209. This is virtually identical to the configuration NEC Versa P8210 similar.

BAPCo MobileMark2005 performance rating (Longer bars indicate better performance) Dell Inspiron 6400 (15.4-inch 2.16GHz GHz) 209, NEC Versa P8210 (15.4-inch, 1.83GHz) 223

Our qualitative tests also gave positive results, with video playback is excellent in bright, high resolution screen and audio comes through clearly and precisely, using both the headphone jack and stereo speakers. The high resolution display also helps the productivity of the office, as you can have multiple windows on screen at same time

Less flattering is the gaming performance the notebook, the unit struggled to run without problems Serious Sam 2 - a relative date (although graphically intensive) game. Suffice it to say, be carried forward to 6400 run the latest games, even at low detail settings.

The Dell Inspiron 6400 battery life surpasses most desktop replacement notebooks we've seen, clocking in at 242 minutes (about four hours). This means there is enough juice to get through a feature film-though it still has time to edit some documents before you have to run to a takeover.

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