DELL Inspiron 9100 Review

**MIG-31** · Jul 1, 2004, 05:15 PM

In the notebook market, the only true mobile multimedia performance machine has got to be the desktop replacement notebooks and rightly so too. Characteristics such as huge screens, powerful processors, specialized Graphics/Visual Processing Unit (GPU/VPU) with a dedicated memory pool and a broad range of connection ports are just some of the components that make these notebooks a cut above its slimmer, lighter but less of a multimedia performer notebook counterparts. Another word closely tied to desktop replacements is physique. These beasty machines are generally known for their dominating stature and as a result of this, they aren't usually ideal portable companions for road warriors.

The Inspiron 9100 is DELL's latest addition to their Inspiron line and cramped under the hood of our review unit is a Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor with Hyper-Threading and 1GB of memory all ready to take on our number crunching applications and game benchmarks. Having a powerful processor is just one technicality the Inspiron 9100 boasts. Delivering the horsepower required to push polygons in our game benchmarks is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (ATI M11) running at 446/526MHz (VPU/RAM) clock speeds, and this VPU too command its own dedicated pool of memory that stands at a hefty 128MB - the norm capacity found on desktop VPUs.

Review: hardwarezone

germanjulian · Jul 1, 2004, 05:52 PM

do not buy a Dell latop... this comes from somebody who has to deal with complaints every day about dell crap laptops. just search the web.. you find loads of angry customers!

LeanWolf · Jul 1, 2004, 06:28 PM

au contraire!

I haven't had a single problem with my inspiron 8100 over the roughly two years that I've had it, and i've used her hard! This i9100 is the newer model and i'd bet it's just as reliable.

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this comes from somebody who has to deal with complaints every day about dell crap laptops.

yes there are billions of people in the world who don't know computers and don't know how to do a little research and love to bitch and moan to customer service over every little problem; or who knows, maybe i lucked out and Dell's other models really are crap!

germanjulian · Jul 1, 2004, 07:55 PM

....... trust me they are crap cause I deal with them and call dell to replace screens, keyboards, hd's etc every 2 weeks. aslo ed stroglin on overclockers.com had an article about choosing a laptop and he mentioned something about dell laptops being awful at the moment

LeanWolf · Jul 2, 2004, 12:22 AM

so I lucked out then? Sweet!

Jul 1, 2004, 05:15 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 55,768 Rep Power: 444 System Specs	DELL Inspiron 9100 Review In the notebook market, the only true mobile multimedia performance machine has got to be the desktop replacement notebooks and rightly so too. Characteristics such as huge screens, powerful processors, specialized Graphics/Visual Processing Unit (GPU/VPU) with a dedicated memory pool and a broad range of connection ports are just some of the components that make these notebooks a cut above its slimmer, lighter but less of a multimedia performer notebook counterparts. Another word closely tied to desktop replacements is physique. These beasty machines are generally known for their dominating stature and as a result of this, they aren't usually ideal portable companions for road warriors. The Inspiron 9100 is DELL's latest addition to their Inspiron line and cramped under the hood of our review unit is a Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor with Hyper-Threading and 1GB of memory all ready to take on our number crunching applications and game benchmarks. Having a powerful processor is just one technicality the Inspiron 9100 boasts. Delivering the horsepower required to push polygons in our game benchmarks is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (ATI M11) running at 446/526MHz (VPU/RAM) clock speeds, and this VPU too command its own dedicated pool of memory that stands at a hefty 128MB - the norm capacity found on desktop VPUs. Review: hardwarezone

Jul 1, 2004, 05:52 PM	#2
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Jul 1, 2004, 07:55 PM	#4
germanjulian Back in London Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London Posts: 1,797 Rep Power: 0	....... trust me they are crap cause I deal with them and call dell to replace screens, keyboards, hd's etc every 2 weeks. aslo ed stroglin on overclockers.com had an article about choosing a laptop and he mentioned something about dell laptops being awful at the moment __________________ /\|\ Asus P5W DH Deluxe, Intel C2D E6600, 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C4 DDR2, E-VGA GeForce 7800 GT, Creative X-Fi Extreme Music, 500GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA, Lian Li PC-V1100 Aluminum Case Black, etc. http://germanjulian.com /\|\

Jul 2, 2004, 12:22 AM	#5
LeanWolf alpha male Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Skyrim Posts: 5,702 Rep Power: 80 System Specs	so I lucked out then? Sweet! __________________