Dell's 11.6-inch Inspiron 11z thin-and-light now on sale for $399
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posted August 18th 2009 10:06AM
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I'm definitely looking for something larger than 10 inches. Although being just one-inch thick is a dealbreaker.
He. He.
Aww, poor Dell! They were expecting your cash. This is just sad news. :( /s
@temmy: thats what she said.
twss
no VGA port? how to do a presentation for business user?
HDMI
usb to dvi adapters or other adapters
Inspiron notebooks are not aimed at the business user, there are plenty of Latitudes to satisfy your needs.
Very nice. Although I think battery life might be an issue with a Celeron CPU and only a 3-cell battery. Also, does anyone know how the GS45 graphics compare to the 9400Ms going into all the Ion machines?
GS45 is much, much worse. HD videos should play alright but you can forget about 3D rendering, i.e. games.
You think you can play games and render 3D with a 9400m ? Lol
Ion is better than Intel graphics but it still isn't exactly a games machine.
My laptop has 9400m and I can paly L4D on high setting. It's not going to run crysis but it's not too shabby either.
Most of you guys just like to bitch. If it is a gaming machine, you guys bitch about price too high or not enough battery life. If it is a ultra portable machine, you bitch the lack of gaming power. If you do find one that meet your requirements, then you will complain about some random atheistic reason like the LCD is not matte.
And now begins the blurry-ing of the line between Netbook and Notebook
bout time too
For this very reason, Dell specified this as a "thin-and-light", creating the new niche, the Neotebook.
Why Celeron?? CULV please!
The Celeron 723 is CULV. CULV stands for consumer ultra low voltage, and is Intels brand for a line of CPUs that include the Celeron 723, Pentium SU2700 and several Core 2 Solo and Core 2 Duo variants.
ahh didn't know that. Thanks.
It still sucks though. Wait 6 months and CULVs are going to be dual core and with better clock speeds as well as Turbo mode. Basically they will be stock at around 1.2ghz but then overclock to 2ghz if the cpu thinks it can.
How does this processor compare against Acer's upcoming Aspire 1410 (1.4GHz Intel Core2 Solo SU3500) processor regarding Speed? I haven't been able to find a speed comparison chart.
This Celeron IS dual core.
I love how Dell is putting more USB ports on their netbooks than they did on my Insipiron 1318.
anybody know differences in power usage and speed between the Celeron and CULV (SU3500)?
According to Wikipedia the SU3500 uses 5.5W and the Celeron 723 uses 10W.
Yeah but the Acer is almost twice as much. I think several Benjamins make the comparison apples to oranges.
@archer
not really, there is the acer 1410T that is only 450$ so... no its not double the price... and the 11z has a 6cell option
Celeron? Seriously? What is Dell too cheap to use the Core 2 Solo u3500 (1.4ghz) that are in all the Acer Timeline's?
Too cheap? that cpu will increase the price by 200usd.
glad they ditched the Mini 12 for this. It had a slow-ass 80GB HDD, Atom AND cost $500 minimum. This is much more like it, though I'd like to see battery life numbers and benchmark speeds before pulling the trigger.
Good stuff - looking forward to reviews of this (performance, battery life)...
Wow, talk about underwhelming.
For 50$ more you can get an Acer 1410 with a 6 cell battery, similar dimensions,and a Core2Solo SU3500 (none of this neutered 1.2 GHz).
But that's an Acer. I'd rather have hemorrhoids than an Acer.
I think Acer has really improved their game recently, I'm not worried about buying from them.
Why do I have a feeling that this celeron will be slower than Atom N280?
it wont be. Even tho the celeron has a lower ghz its still faster. but still they should of put the core 2 solo u3500 1.4ghz in them insted.
Correct me because I know I'm wrong, but...
Isn't that a slower processor than what's on the market now?
Or is a 1.2GHz Celeron faster than a 1.7GHz Atom?
GHz mean nothing when you're talking about different chip architectures. The Celeron is faster than the Atom.
The Celeron 1.2 is faster than an Atom 1.7 but consumes slightly more power
to Matt
here is the paradox:
who is faster?
1) a smaller dude who run slower (atom)
2) a bigger dude who run slower (celeron)
jd... what?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox
The Celeron will be about twice as fast as an Atom, out-of-order Vs in-order.
What's with the huge ass bezel? The top and sides are okay, but look at the bottom where the Dell logo is - it's HUGE. Maybe it's just the pics, but it looks really bad to me. I can't stand when companies put in a huge bezel when they could've just made the screen a bit bigger.
Otherwise it looks quite nice. I'd like a larger battery, but only if it doesn't stick out the bottom (I don't like when batteries angle notebooks).
It's actually likely to be much faster than the Atom, which has a max. TDP of 2.5W, whereas the Celeron 723 has one of 10W.
Guys, jeez. Try clicking thru.
Here's what Dell says:
"When compared to the Atom N270 processor, commonly used for netbooks, the Intel Celeron® 723 processor improves productivity by up to 40%(7) and has up to a 39%(8) better CPU performance."
And the footnotes read:
(7) "Based on BAPco SYSmark 2007 Preview testing by Dell Labs in July 2009 comparing an Inspiron Mini 10v system with an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of system memory, and 128MB graphics memory to an Inspiron 11z with an Intel Celeron 723 processor, 2GB of system memory, and 780MB of graphics memory. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability of doing day to day activities like data analysis and common office applications."
(8) "Based on Futuremark PCMark2005 testing by Dell Labs in July 2009 comparing an Inspiron Mini 10v system with an Intel Atom N270 processor and 1024MB of memory to an Inspiron 11z with an Intel Celeron 723 processor and 2047MB of memory. (Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.)"
Meh for 50$ more you can get the Acer Timeline 1410 :\ Which is same specs but 4gb ram, 320gb hdd, and core 2 solo processor (most likely way better than the celeron crap)
HOw does this compare to the Gateway lt3103u being sold at best buy for $379? This has an Athlon 64 single core running at 1.2Ghz and a dedicated graphics chipset. Will the Gateway perform better across the board? Just asking because was actually considering picking up the Gateway.
-sun
The Gateway has a six-cell battery, which gives it an edge over the 3-cell Dell, though the TDP of the Gateway is 22W versus 10W for the Celeron. Source:
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/c/a/News/Gateway-LT3013u-and-Acer-Aspire-A0751h-compared/
I'm in the market for a netbook for university and I'm just wondering how this stacks up against a 1.6ghz Atom? I am comparing this to the 1005 ASUS EEE. This obviously has more ram and hard drive space so thats a big plus, the CPU is my only worry.
What do you guys reckon?
That Celeron is not that great and it consumes 5 times more than your usual Atom N280, plus the battery included is just a 3-cell so don't expect this thing to run for more than 2 or 3 hours.
I'd go with the Eee 1005HA-H, plus with €120 euros more you can upgrade the HD to 500GB and the RAM to 2GB.
Celeron is ALOT faster than an Atom but nowhere near as good battery life.
If you need it for work don't touch an Atom.
"If you need it for work don't touch an Atom."
Nonsense. For the stuff typical students need for study (Word, a PDF viewer, researching on the web), any netbook is absolutely fast enough, and it's also good enough for the majority of other things normal people do on a small netbook (play music, watch DVD rips, Facebook, Twitter, light photo editing etc).
Flash-heavy sites, higher-res Flash videos, HD videos and games are the only things that cause problems on an Atom-based system, and as nobody is going to use a netbook as only computer or gaming machine (or need HD video playback on a 10" screen, for that matter), that's really not a big deal imho.