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Dell Studio 15

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Dell includes an industry-standard one-year parts-and-labor warranty with the system, which includes extra features such as 3GB of online backup storage space though Dell's DataSafe program. Support is accessible through a 24-7 toll-free phone line, and an extensive online knowledge base and driver downloads.

Multimedia multitasking test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)

Dell XPS m1530

949

Dell Studio 15

1,040

Dell Inspiron 1420-123B

1,169

Dell Inspiron 1525-122B

1,176

Adobe Photoshop CS3 image-processing test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)

Dell Studio 15

202

Dell Inspiron 1420-123B

226

Dell Inspiron 1525-122B

231

Dell XPS m1530

273

Apple iTunes encoding test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)

Dell Inspiron 1525-122B

205

Dell Inspiron 1420-123B

204

Dell Studio 15

167

Dell XPS m1530

186

Video playback battery drain test (in minutes)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)

Dell Inspiron 1525-122B

135

Dell Studio 15

166

Dell Inspiron 1420-123B

195

Dell XPS m1530

202

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System configurations:
Dell Studio 15
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP1; 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T8100; 2048MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz; 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD3400; 250GB Western Digital 5,400rpm

Dell Inspiron 1420
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP1; 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5750; 3072MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz; 128MB Mobile Intel 965GM Express; 250GB Western Digital 5,400rpm

Inspiron 1525
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP1; 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5750; 3072MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz; 128MB Mobile Intel 965GM Express; 250GB Western Digital 5,400rpm

Dell XPS M1530
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition; 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500; 2048MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz; 256MB Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT; 160GB Hitachi 5,400rpm

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Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 19 reviews
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4.5 stars

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

"Good deal for the buck but..."

by Dorex1965 on July 23, 2008

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1.0 stars

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

"Not good from the word go"

by mmiller60 on August 5, 2008

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4.0 stars

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

"ideal for multitasking"

by vivekmilan on August 6, 2008

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