Dell’s Inspiron 1545

In these financially troubled times, the budget sector is more important than ever. Considering it’s a notebook from the world’s third-largest PC manufacturer, Dell’s Inspiron 1545 (also known as the Inspiron 15) has a lot to live up to.

As with many new budget notebooks, Dell’s latest is available in a few different colours if purchased direct. Matte Black is standard. This particular model comes with a dark blue ‘high-gloss’ lid.

So with an update to their current Inspiron range, the Dell Inspiron 1545 hits the laptop scene, we find out whether this budget laptop deserves the title ‘budget’ or does it offer us a little more than we have come to expect.

Style

Sporting the new Dell coloured designed case from Dell, this laptop comes in a stylish blue colour. Touting a 15.6? Widescreen, it gives the right amount of screen people are use to on laptops.

Under the bonnet

This laptop comes with the all powerful Intel Core 2 Duo Processor which has boosted Intel’s processor sales through the roof. The model running on this is the low/mid spec version, the T5800 this runs at a 2 GHz exactly but bear in mind this means x2 and that many applications are now being released that support dual cores so you will be getting the benefit of two processors’ speeds rather than one if the software allows it of course but otherwise this will run windows and office application with ease.

The amount of RAM that comes with this laptop is 4GB; which is excellent in terms of performance, office applications will run on this perfectly, which is what you expect from a budget laptop.

Hard drive wise, this comes with a hefty 320GB. So documents such as Word, Excel etc files will be counted in the thousands, not to mention a fair few other programs as well as many MP3/AVI files to boot.

Technical Specs:

• Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 / 2GHz
• 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM - 667 MHz
• 320GB Disk Drive
• 15.6? Widescreen
• DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330 with 256MB memory
• Bluetooth - Yes
• Notebook Camera - Yes
• Wi-Fi - Yes