Dell has a new line of notebooks, the Dell Studio. The line fits between the budget Dell Inspiron line of laptops and the high-end Dell XPS. It first caught my eye in a catalog with cool designs and a range of colors. The Studio line offers more personalization options (colors and graphic imprints) than Dell’s other laptops That is important in a laptop (I guess!). The specifications aren’t bad either.

The Dell Studio comes with two screen sizes – the Dell Studio 15 with 15.4 inch screens, and the Dell Studio 17 with 17 inch screens. I’ll concentrate on the more portable Studio 15. which weighs in at 6 pounds plus.

The Studio line features Intel Core 2 Duo Processors up to 2.5GHz, with a maximum of 4 GB of RAM, and hard drives with capacities up to 320GB. A biometric fingerprint reader appears to be standard. The Studio has a slot-loading optical drive and an Express Card slot that doubles as a holder for a small media remote. It also has a built-in 2.0 Megapixel webcam. The optical drive can be upgraded to a Blu-Ray drive, and the notebook has HDMI output to connect to a HDTV.

The Operating System is a choice of either Windows Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate Edition (I guess you can’t have it all).

Posted on July 12th, 2008 by mervyn