Dell has given new price tags to its Dell Vostro 1000 models. Right now if you check out the Dell website, You will find Dell Vostro 1000 with the starting price of $399 and Vostro 1510 with the starting price of $499.These two systems are really attractive offers in terms of features and prices compared to 10" Wind PC ( $499)or 10" Eee PC 1000 (Eee PC 1000h pricing $650 at Amazon) or 8.9"Eee PC 901 ($600 at Newegg). employees.
Dell Vostro laptops have been made for small Businesses having maximum up to 25 employees. Dell Vostro 1000 is a mainstream laptop with 15.4" display. It is clear that in terms of portability and size mini-laptops and battery life ( very often) are best options but in term of features, Vostro 1000 and vostro 1510 stay beyond the mini laptops mentioned above. For instance, these two Dell laptops sport built-in optical drives, more USB ports and slot while mini laptops are short of them.
Also, most mini laptops are not customizable and are available in the market with fixed configurations but by only spending extra $25 you can have the Vostro 1000 with faster AMD AthlonTM 64 X2 Dual-Core processor TK-57 (1.9GHz/256KB) processor or by paying extra $25 you can upgrade the RRAM of vostro 1000 to 2G, by paying another $15 for DV burner and $15 for 120GB Hard Drive you will be able to have a Vostro 1000 with every standard features for a small business use. If you add only this extra $80 (2*$25 plus 2*$15) to the basic price of Vostro 1000, yet you will have a laptop cheaper than Eee PC 1000h with standard level of features.
In the following, you can see the specs of AMD-based Vostro 1000 for $399:
Processor:
Memory: 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 Dimm
Hard drive: 80GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
Optical drive:
Display: 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Anti-Glare Display
Graphics card: ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory (integrated)
Network: Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Wi-Fi Internal Card; modem, Ethernet
Ports/Slots: 4 USB 2.0; 15-pin VGA video connector; LAN (RJ45); Modem connector (RJ11) Microphone in & Headphone jack; 3-in-1 media memory card reader; 54 mm ExpressCard slot
Weight: 6.26 lbs (2.84 kg)
Intel-based Dell Vostro 1510 doesn’t have a CPU using 45-nm technology but it is powered by faster clocking 1.86GHz Celeron CPU, more memory capability ( 2GB of RAM), a built-in DVD combo drive, Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, and enough 80GB HDD. Even in term of ports and slots, Vostro 1510 bring much more statisfation than Vostro 1000. It provides FireWire, and 8-in-1 media card reader and Express card Slot.
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However by just adding a $25 extra you can add a fingerprint reader to your laptop or by adding another extra $25 you can easily have a laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo T5670 (1.8GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB). So by only paying $550 you can have a very good business laptop with good security. These are the privileges that you can get automatically on Dell laptops but they are not available for any of mini laptops!
CPU: Intel Celeron M 540 (1.86GHz, 1M L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
Memory: 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM
Optical drive:
Display: 15.4 inch Widescreen WXGA LCD Anti-Glare Display
Graphics: Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Hard drive: 80G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Network: Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Wi-Fi Internal Card; Ethernet; Optional Bluetooth (adding extra $20)l Ethernet; Optional Modem
Others: No Webcam, No Digital Camera Microphone Option (for adding this option you have to pay extra $40)
Ports/Slots: 4 USB 2.0 compliant 4-pin ports; 15-pin VGA video connector
LAN (RJ45); Modem optional external via USB port; Microphone in & Headphone jack
4-pin IEEE 1394 port; 8-in-1 media memory card reader; 54 mm ExpressCard slot
Weight: 2.59kg (5.72lbs)
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