A review by rizzu87 on Dell Studio 17 November 17th, 2008
Author's product rating:
Speed
Fast
Look & Feel
Good
Comfort & Portability
Satisfactory
Robustness & Durability
Satisfactory
Value For Money
Good
Advantages:
good performance wise, good exterior look, grat for multimedia use
Disadvantages:
no eSATA port, slippery touchpad, interior is boaring
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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The Dell Studio 17 is a 17" Dell laptop which can be considered a desktop replacement laptop. It's market price is around $1000.
Design and Build: In dell's overall range Dell studio 17 fits somewhere between XPS gaming notebooks and Inspirons with a more professional look. This Dell Studio 17 is very similar to Dell's studio 15 but has some extra features. Its body has a colorful metallic design touches which really looks amazing. I think many users of this notebook would appreciate the number pad, fingerprint reader and the keyboard backlight which looks beautiful in absence of light. Its height is 1.2" - 1.7" which can be considered thick and the weight is 3.6 Kg which is also quite heavy for this notebook. therefore It cannot be considered as a portable laptop.
Screen: The screen is 17" with resolution of 1920x1200 which is great for multimedia use. It gives a widescreen display for which this notebook is great to watch movies and on. Veiwing angles are all perfect but the lower viewing angle give some bad colors when the screen is tilted back. But thats good enough!!
Ports and Features: It was strange to know that the 15" studio notebook had a eSATA port but this Dell Studio 17 does not have it. Instead there are 5 USB ports i think thats more than enough for Laptop computer. Other ports included in the Studio 17 is a mini firewire port, VGA, HDMI, Ethernet, Express port, and a Card Reader. Apart from this Studio 17 also has ATI's Mobility Radeon Graphics card which can help video acceleration and games to be powered. It also has a built in 2.0 MP webcam.
Performance: Studio 17 is better for multimedia usage. DVD's and games look magnificently good on this laptop. But along with a good graphic card it has a Intel 2.5 GHz core 2 Duo processor with a 4 GB DDR2 RAM. There is also a 320 GB hard disk in Studio 17 which is capable of the storage of huge amount of data/files. Hence the overall speed is good.
Keyboard and Touchpad: Generally i feel typing is easy and comfortable on this laptop, but the touchpad is a bit too slippery so the cursor is not well in control of the user.
Battery Life: Battery life is fine, as it give little less than 2 hours when heavily used.
Overall, I liked the Dell Studio 17, it's well-made, has a wide range of useful features, and is great for casual use. And it's available for a reasonable price. However, in many ways the Studio 15 is more attractive, features an external eSATA port which lets you easily add an external hard drive, and is a whole kilogram lighter.
Advantages: Great machine for small price. Disadvantages: None
...most affordable Laptop computer ever..
Dell Studio 17 the price is right about $380.00
Where in these days you can get a Note Book Computer with this kind of money?
The Studio 17 is as attractive or desirable as an XPS laptop, but it is more appealing than an Inspiron. With that in mind, it achieves its objective: to be cheaper than an XPS without sacrificing too much in the way of looks. Yes indeed there are better replacement machines available, ... ...than in mind we are talking about /or $370.00- $380.00 price range.
This machine is powerful, effective, good looking, light weight and easy to handle. The scree is wide and rezolution is fantastic.
These days it's just doesn't pay to spend too much money on computers because tomorrow they will become absolite. So you spend $380.00 and you got a great Laptop which can lasts you for a while until you decided that it's too slow, too old. The worst ...
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Advantages: Affordable, Good colour range, Blu-Ray drive, HDMI output Disadvantages: Ugly and hefty, Could do with better storage capacities.
...good value for a mid-range Dell PC. The laptop comes with 5 USB ports, which is a good amount considering some laptop manufactures really don't put enough on their PCs. It also has a Blu-Ray drive and an HDMI output. These features, I would say are good highlights of the laptop, especially for entertainment use. The storage capacity begins at 250GB but optional hard drive upgrades are available. It comes with 3GB RAM. The software features are also ...
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Have just bought one of this. Screen is brilliant, very clear. Fast laptop, with Vista which is brilliant!! I have mine in Pink and it is beautiful! Very light, easy to carry. Keyboard is brilliant as it is a full keyboard with numeric keys to the right. Includes bluetooth which is handy and webcam on the front of the screen!
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this Dell Studio 17 is one of the laptop model that has a position between the Inspiron and XPS series. Studio 17 is a special laptop that was created by Dell for kosumen who want something powerful than the Inspiron, but not semahal series XPS. Dell has the Inspiron and XPS of a laptop in the Dell studio 17. Dell Studio 17 has a design that estetik combined with solid color and the Dell logo colored metal, almost like a version of Inspiron and XPS. ... ...the ang XPS, but the Dell Studio 17 laptop a bit more that is 1.7 inch thick. With the weight of 8.4 pounds, more weight of Studio 17 and 5 pounds lighter than the 17 inch Gateway P-171X. Comfortable keyboard backlight color when used for typing and control of sensitive with a touch of white. Following specification laptop Dell Studio 17: * CPU: 2.5-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 * RAM: 3GB to 4GB * Harddisk: 320GB * Harddisk speed: 5.400 rpm * Harddisk ...
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Advantages: Good design, Better choice, and trustable model, good value for money Disadvantages: Tradition 6WHr Battery, (but updradation available)
...launched new studio series brand in 15.4" category and 17" category.
I will discuss here DellStudio 15, its design its quality, features and disadvantages as well.
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DellStudio 15, comes in two deferent types, one is general edition and other-one is special art edition, and both models are available in seven deferent colors, you can chose your favorite color and make some extra fun in your life.
There are some different in functions and price!
Dell provide basic configuration on both of models, but we can upgrade it as according to our requirements and than we can order it.
What basic configuration and how much we can upgrade?.have a look.
Operating System
Dell provides Windows Vista Home premium 32 Bit operating system with service pack 1.
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