Some of the notebooks available on “Back to School/College” sales almost make me wish I was going back to college. Well, maybe not…

The first notebook I looked at was the Dell Inspiron 1525. The configuration I was looking at comes in 8 colors, with Jet Black being included in the price. Since I would probably go for the basic black, it is nice to see a choice of 4 patterns - great way to distinguish your notebook from everyone else’s.

As for specs, it has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5750, 2Ghz (with the choice of processors up to an Intel Core Duo T8300 running at 2.4GHz) with 3 GB of memory. It runs Windows Vista Premium with SP1 – which is preferable to Vista Home Basic. The 3GB of memory is just about the minimum for Vista, as you don’t want the notebook slowing to a standstill when you are wanting the word processor and fast.
The standard 250GB hard drive is a good size, about the minimum I would personally go for in a notebook. The CD and DVD writer is almost standard nowadays. This Notebook comes with a 802.11g wireless card, which is also pretty much standard.

Posted on August 24th, 2008 by mervyn