Dell Vostro laptops have been made for small Businesses having maximum up to 25 employees. The first series of Dell Vostro laptops include Vostro 1000, Vostro 1400, Vostro 1500, Vostro 1700 and late comer Vostro 1200.
Yesterday Dell announced the second series of Vostro line up (Vostro 1310, Vostro 1510 and Vostro 1710 Laptops).
Vostro 1310 is a first Vostro laptop with 13.3" and very portable for business users. Contrary to the first series that just came with budget processors, vostro 1310 offers a vast range of Intel processors from the 1.86GHz Celeron M M540 up to the Penryn T9500 at 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo. Even, it provides the option of discrete NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS.
Read more:
Dell Vostro 1310 Review Round up
Dell Vostro 1310 & Vostro 1510 Business Laptops Available for Sale in USA
Here in this entry I try to compare Vostro 1310 with Inspiron 1525 as both of are budget laptops and attractive for consumers.
The price of Inspiron 1525 basic configuration starts from $499 and of Vostro 1310 strarts from $749.
Inspiron 1525 is %25 smaller than Ispiron 1520.One advantage that Inspiron 1525 has over Vostro 1310 is that it can come with Blu-ray drive and ample 3GB of RAM and huge 160GB HDD even when its price is under $1000.
About the amount of ports and slots both laptops are the same but Inspiron 1525 can provide optional HDMI contrary to Vostro 1310.Display in both laptops look flawless from straight on and the horizontal viewing angles are great. Keyboard in both laptops is comfortable. And keys have excellent travel and cushion. but touch pad feels more bigger with better position of buttons for Inspiron 1525. Both come with A series of touch-sensitive media buttons with blue LED backlights. Both laptops run cool . 1525 is some noisy.
Quality of speakers of 1525 is better than Vostro 1310. also, they arel ocated in better position. The speakers for the 1525 are located at the top of the keyboard area above the media buttons while for Vostro 1310 is in front.
Vostro 1310 with its smaller display is more portable and lighter than Inspiron 1525.
In the following you will see the benchmark results of these two laptops and read the analyzing.
Fortunately, notebook review had a hand on a pre-production Vostro 1310 and could even test this laptop with different software tools like wPrime, 3DMark06 and PCMark05 and compare it to other notebooks like Dell Inspiron 1525, Dell XPS M1530, Dell XPS M1330, and Lenovo ThinkPad X61 and Lenovo ThinkPad T60.
Read more:
Dell to Release Vostro 1310, 1510 and 1710 Laptops; See the Specs
You can read the full review in the website. Here I only mention the specs of the lapotop has been reviewed, the Pros and Cons briefly and the result of benchmarks:
The Dell Vostro 1310 that has been tested comes with following specs:
Price as tested: $1,357 (Base configuration price: $749)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1GHz)
Memory: 2GB - 2 DIMM (DDR2-667) (4GB max)
HDD: 160GB 5400RPM HDD
Optical drive: Slot-loading 8x DVD +/- RW
Graphics: 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Ports/Slots: 4 Ports, FireWire, microphone in, headphone out, power jack, VGA out, Ethernet jack, 8-in-1 media card reader and Express card, and security lock slot
Others: Webcam
Security: fingerprint reader
Dimensions: (HxWxD): 0.94" (front)/1.59" (back) x 12.48" x 9.57"
Weight: 4.45 lbs (with 4-cell battery), 4.63 lbs (with 6-cell battery)
OS:
Software: 30-day security subscription anti-virus, No trail-ware
Services: Network assistant; 10GB of Datasafe online;
The new Vostro 1310 comes with different design that the previous models. It comes with thinner and lighter frame. Vostro 1310 is 20% smaller and lighter than the Vostro 1400. Vostro 1310 is only available in an attractive glossy black finish. This budget business laptop arranges everything that a business user needs to get from like solid performance, good look with modest ability of playing games.
(Pros)
-Thinner and lighter than the Vostro 1400
- Hyperband Multi-Antenna housed inside the LCD lid reduces dropped signals for both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Solid performance
-Nice screen. It is flawless from straight on and the horizontal viewing angles are great
- Easy-to-use media buttons
- The keyboard is quite nice with minimal flex near the center of the keyboard. keys have excellent travel and cushion
- The touchpad is nice and responsive
-Good selection of ports like 4 Ports (one port more than XPS M1530), FireWire, 8-in-1 media card reader and Express card,
- the headphone out port delivered crystal clear audio
-Reasonable battery life
-No bloatware
-Available with Windows XP
-Excellent return policy (NO restocking or shipping fees within 30 days!)
(Cons)
-The plastic of chassis doesn’t fell as sturdy as the previous models like Vostro 1400. Also, the edges of the chassis are sharper and brings this feeling this laptop is slightly unrefined.
- Fingerprints easily stay on the Glossy LCD lid
-the Touchpad is some smaller and buttons are uncomfortable because pf their position unless they have excellent travel and cushion
-Mono speaker is painfully weak
-No S-video or HDMI port that looks some odd.
- It is more pricey that it looks compared to the XPS M1330.
Now you can see the result of Performance and Benchmarks of Vostro 1310 compared to other laptops I mentioned at the beginning of the entry.
YOu will see in the different test mainly the comparison between Vostro 1310 and Inspiron 1525. you will see that the overall performance Dell Vostro 1310 with Penryn processor and discrete graphics is only slightly better than the budget Inspiron 1525 with lower CPU and graphics card! But the 3DMark06 of Vostro 1310 is much better than Inspiron 1525 means for playing 3D games Vostro 1310 will act better.
-wPrime Test (32M time): Dell Vostro 1310 (Core 2 Duo T8100 at 2.1GHz) scored 37.736s which is better than Dell Inspiron 1525 (Core 2 Duo T7250 at 2.0GHz) scoring at 43.569s, but it was almost equal with Dell XPS M1530 (Core 2 Duo T7500 at 2.2GHz) scoring 37.485s.
-3DMark06 Test (graphics performance): Dell Vostro 1310 scored 1,679 3DMarks while it is better than the result of Dell Inspiron 1525 (2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Due, Intel X3100) scoring at 545 3DMarks and Dell XPS M1330 (2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, NVIDIA GeForce Go 8400M GS 128MB) scoring at 1,408 3DMarks,
But it was less than the result of Dell XPS M1530 (2.20GHz Intel T7500, Nvidia 8600M GT 256MB) scoring at 4,332 3DMarks.
-PCMark05 Test (overall performance): Dell Vostro 1310 (2.1GHz Intel T8100, Nvidia 8400M GS 128MB) scored 4,813 PCMarks while it is better than the test result of Dell Inspiron 1525 (2.0GHz Intel T7250, Intel X3100) scoring at 4,149 PCMarks and Dell XPS M1330 (2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, NVIDIA GeForce Go 8400M GS) scoring at 4,591 PCMarks and Lenovo ThinkPad X61 (2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, Intel X3100) scoring at 4,153 PCMarks and Lenovo ThinkPad T60 Widescreen (2.0GHz Intel T7200, ATI X1400 128MB) scoring at 4,189 PCMarks.
But Dell XPS M1530 (2.20GHz Intel T7500, Nvidia 8600M GT 256MB) scored 5,412 PCMarks has better result than Vostro 1310.
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