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Hot Highperf Dell Inspiron 8600 Review

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Thu, 08/28/2003 - 20:36 — Christoph C. Cemper

Dell has the new Inspiron 8600 Ambassador / Moebius online and ready.

  • Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Prozessoren-M 400 MHz up to 1.7 Ghz</li>
    <li>up to 2048 <span class="caps">MB DDR</span>-SDRAM     333 MHz in 2 Slots (needing hell expensive 1 gig modules)
  • 15,4" UltraSharp? WUXGA Display (1920 × 1200)
  • 128 MB nVidia GeForceFX Go 5650 – that's a higher frequency 5600 Modell DirectX9 chipset
  • DVD+RW or CDRW Combo
  • WLAN 802.11 b/g + built in antennas
  • 2,99kg
  • highest value at best price

but – no back-pack for this wide profile notebook offered??? – I suppose that's a new formfactor or so… but I don't want to have the weight of this goodie on one shoulder everyday – still remember the old donkey-trip with my previous configuration.

and – where are the good reviews from the mags? all I found was a PCW review for the October issue ... to new or what? any hints or review-links are highly appreciated…

With this top-book@1gig you should get the top-performance for mobile development – especially Java + Database + Appserver on a notebook could kill other configurations soon.

btw: this is no marketing rave, I will get this notebook next and report about it.

Ok, two reviews found already:

Looks like the build of the keyboard is not so perfect… and the 1900 resolution seems to be an overkill for the Earthweb folks…

Thanks to Google News Alert Service – but unfortunately another link to infoworld was simply dead... hmmm

another article at pcpro required user-registration… I just wonder how the google-guys to that… or the CMS onsite?

and cnet promises a full review soon…

030920: another Review by Gamers Depot

and one new by ZDNET AU

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Fri, 09/12/2003 - 22:35 — Marjorie (not verified)

Hot Highperf Dell Inspiron 8600 Review

I recently got the Dell Inspiron 8500 which has the same wide 15.4" screen that the 8600 has. It JUST did fit into my Targus backpack for laptops.

Sun, 09/14/2003 - 20:08 — ccc (not verified)

Hot Highperf Dell Inspiron 8600 Review

Thanks for that info! christoph

Tue, 09/23/2003 - 00:04 — Gregor (not verified)

Hot Highperf Dell Inspiron 8600 Review

I just got an Inspiron 8500. It runs hot, this is one WARM laptop. In the long term this must affect the computers innards. I bought the 3 year warranty and imagine i will be using it quite a bit. Also, the DVD burner is an NEC DVD+RW ND-5100 which has region settings on it. Mine came configured as a US machine, I am in Australia and I only have one change left - which is my first change ever. I am very dissapointed that my laptop can travel with me but the DVD player restricts where I can use it. DELL should have warned me first and I wouldn't have bought the DVD option. The screen is awesome but there is a invisible line across the middle where you can move the mouse pointer and it disappears from view. Apart from the DVD issue, it's a pretty good laptop, although it is pretty heavy, Oh, the bag .. What's up with that ? I got the deluxe leather case and it's nowhere near as good as my last DELL laptop bag. The laptop just fits but accessing stuff in the bag is counter intuitive.

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