This is due to poor viewing angles, not unevenness of light. In addition, the screen has a good dynamic range, thus you can see details in both white and black areas comparably well.
Sadly, horizontal viewing angles were miserable. It was impossible for two people sitting shoulder to shoulder about cm away from the screen to see the entire frame well. Vertical angles were only slightly better. Straight on view of screen view large image. Horizontal view of screen view large image. Above view of screen view large image. In addition, it looks as if my Inspiron had a bad screen, because it was not sharp at all. Actually, it was unsharp and all pictures appeared a bit blurry.
Since I am a photography enthusiast, this was a very disappointing thing. The screen also showed moving horizontal lines in grey areas near large white spots. I really hope that other Inspiron buyers get better screens.
Screen glossiness was not annoying to me as long as I stayed at home, but using the screen outside might pose some problems due to excessive reflections. Overall, the screen was bright, but not vibrant nor sharp. This must be enough for office usage, but watching movies or editing pictures will not be a pleasure.
You should also note that screen quality greatly depends on the exact model. Speakers are loud and clear. When I was watching a movie in a cafe, I had to turn the volume down to 20 percent of normal, because other visitors started "coughing. Of course, like most laptop speakers, no bass could be detected.
Plugging in my AKG headphones or Altec Lansing speakers gave some additional power, but clarity remained the same. Clearly, integrated speakers are enough or more than enough to show the capabilities of the sound card. Speakers on the front side of the view large image. The TL50 is the slowest of the Turion X2 series and has only 2xkb memory installed, which looks miserable when compared to 2mb or 4mb in Intel Core 2 Duo.
In any case, the Turion TL50 was as much as I needed. I did not experience any slow action in my daily usage. In addition, the TL50 is quite good at conserving power, but more on that later. It took about one minute to boot Windows Vista and everything ran fast enough, even with quite a lot of programs in background. The fan buzzes quite frequently, but silently enough to not disturb you.
Kudos to engineers for a great heat-management system. Just look at all those air vents! The bottom of the laptop gets a bit warm sometimes, but not uncomfortable. One strange item of note: the bottom of the screen gets really warm, probably due to the lamp for screen illumination. The keyboard is a really good one. It is soft but not too soft , fast to respond and does not flex at all. All keys are of good size and can be reached easily. However, the edge of the case next to the keyboard might disturb a little bit when pressing the space bar.
T yping feels smooth , but there is a somewhat unclear action point. At the end the stroke is stopped ungentely. Therefore vigorous key strokes leads to considerable noise emissions. Similarly to other Dell notebooks, one can't complain about the touch pad.
The response and the control are without any anomalies. Its surfaces allows smooth sliding. Once again both touch pad buttons are worthy of remark.
They can be characterized by user-friendly dimensions and a comfortable travel, which makes them easy to use. Dell's Inspiron is equipped with a We reviewed the "TrueLife" variant. According to Dell, the advantage of the "TrueLife" version is an essentially better contrast ratio compared to the version with matt surface.
However, under bad lightening conditions the "TrueLife" display reflects. The diagram of the display measurement uncovers slightly lowered color curves. The blue curve deviates slightly more. This leads to the usual slight dominance of red colors. We measure a good maximum brightness of The minimum measured brightness was 0.
The notebook reached grade 6 in the Pixperan test of legibility, which is an average result. Reflections in bright environments make work hard outdoors. The display of the Dell Inspiron has an acceptable range of operation. When looking from bottom to top, the picture gets quickly darker and gets nearly completely dark at very acute angles. When looking from top to bottom, the display gets brighter , but not that extreme.
Horizontally, the possible vantage points from left and right are absolutely sufficient. At too acute angles one can observe reflections and pale colors. If one looks around, one could easily come to the conclusion that all recent notebooks come with Intel processors.
Dell Inspiron's proves this wrong. All hopes to play the current demanding games well are therefore in vain. Further information about the video card can be found here or in our comparison of mobile video cards.
Please also look at our benchmark list of mobile processors or at our benchmark list of mobile video cards , in order to compare this notebook to other configurations. We were pleased that the Dell Inspiron was rather quite in idle mode and during use of office and Internet applications.
Either the fans were completely deactivated of they ran at lowest level without disturbing. Under load the notebook reached a maximum loudness of The top side of the notebook is, besides a hot spot in the right back corner On the contrary, one can measure a clear temperature increase at the bottom side.
Still, the maximum surface temperature of The speakers, which are placed right and left at the front edge, have a nice sound. The basses are a little bit faded, but the total volume is respectable. The reviewed notebook was equipped with an 85 Wh mAh 9 cells Lithium-Ions battery , which is available for an additional charge of Overall the screen is fairly sharp with nice saturated colors and high contrast.
Brightness is good, next to my everyday ThinkPad T43 it certainly stands out as being much better. Inspiron WXGA screen view large image. As forementioned, brightness is good. The vertical viewing angles are quite poor, meaning that if you look at this screen at an angle other than perpendicular head on then colors will look odd, usually darker than intended and contrast will be whacky. The speaker performance of the is fine. In the world of notebooks, they are quite good even. Of course there is no bass but they seem to play low enough to make voices sound natural.
They also play loud, for a notebook, without distortion. They point forward, and project the sound into a room so several people could easily watch a movie. Boy is the AMD Sempron ever a reality check as I merge into the information technology equivalent of the slow lane. So why did I choose the Sempron knowing it would be slow? Web page rendering feels sluggish at times. If you go to the Add or Remove Programs Control Panel feature in Windows it takes a long time to populate the program list you look at "please wait while the list is populated" for at least 15 seconds upon entering that for the first time.
And multi-tasking can be a bit of a slog, while ripping a CD and opening thePCMark05 benchmark program I clicked on the "show desktop" icon and nothing registered for quite some time as the system tried to keep up with all the tasks being demanded of it.
Of course any Office application works fine and surfing the web is quite seamless, although web page rendering can sometimes be noticeably slower on this laptop. PCMark05 gives a good rating for overall system performance, as you can see below, the with a Sempron is quite a bit slower than Core Duo and faster AMD machines. Its rendering tasks can stress up to sixteen multiprocessors on the same computer. The Dell is commendably quiet. Even while watching a DVD, the fan remained off. The hard drive makes a subdued, but noticeable hum.
Only under heavier tasks does the fan come on. It has three speeds and generates more of a low pitched hum than any type of annoying whine that some fans produce. The keyboard and area under the screen generated more heat.
The underside of the notebook was also slightly warm at the front and warmer, but not hot at the rear. Overall the can be commended for keeping its cool. With the 6-cell battery I was able to get 3 hours 25 minutes of battery life. This was with screen brightness at half and wi-fi off. During the 3.
0コメント