Dell Inspiron 1525 Notebook Review: Laptop Price, Details, Configuration information.

Earlier in the year 2007 Dell has the image of producing bulky and heavy Notebooks, but I think they have improved a lot after the launch of Inspiron 1520 bulky editions. It looks like they have taken the last criticism seriously, and have worked a lot on the new designs and looks. They have launched new Notebook which is new Inspiron 1525. It looks stylish, Sleek and an ideal notebook for those user who look for Music, Multimedia playback and day today PC usage. It is 15.4 inch wide notebook powered by core 2 duo T5800 Processor, comes with 1GB and 2GB editions, which can be customized and increased. It comes with pre loaded installed Windows Vista Home basic Service pack 1 edition, which can be upgraded to windows vista home premium and ultimate editions.

Design Looks & Build of DELL Inspiron 1525: The year 2007 was full of critics for Dell, because they launched and produce some heavy bulky laptops, but time is over as year 2008 was a great success for Dell. Inspiron 1525 is Thin, sleek and pretty much stylish notebook from DELL’s releases this year. Dell have launched Inspiron with 8 different unique color combination and choices for their users to choose, which certainly gives them wide range to chose their favorite notebook colors, but Jet black is the default color for the inspiron 1525 notebook. Its glossy color on outer body makes it really a good looking notebook.

Screen: DELL Inspiron Display features are quite good as well as it includes matte finish 15.4 inches widescreen XGA with 1280 x 800. It is based on True Life Glossy finish. I found its display features quite incredible, because average user will find these features and look stunning for sure.

Touchpad, Keyboard, & Multi Media Control keys: The Keyboard and designs of Keys are similar to their earlier version Inspiron 1520. That was quite good and impressive as well. Touchpad interface is nice as well, as it is quite flawless and smooth. Touchpad’s buttons are well designed and separated to easy use and navigation for selecting Drag and Drop options. It has vertical and horizontal scroll as well which works fine smoothly, for scrolling windows and other usages. It has Media button with Blue LED light just above the keyboard which disappears after few second we press them.

Slots & Ports: Dell Inspiron has in built HDMI port which is ideal for those users who like to use digital output. They have included S-video and VGA ports as well. Inspiron 1525 has 4 USB ports, 2 headphone jacks, express card slot, 8-in-one Media card reader and an Ethernet Port as well.

Speakers: The Quality of Inspiron 1525‘s Speakers is pretty nice, they are located just above the keyboard and near to media buttons. Even though there isn’t much to talk about its sound capabilities, but still audio output and sounds quality is good enough, and with ear bud headphone jack it’s even better.

Performance Analysis: One thing I must say that the dedicated graphics addition availablity they have taken out from inspiron 1525 is a worst one, because they had this feature in their earlier version inspiron 1520. I do not know the exact reason behind this but may be they wanted to make it for average laptop users for Music, and multimedia productivity features. It’s not that notebook with high end graphic features for cutting edge 3d features, but still it’s a productive notebook. I would like to see some dedicated graphic memory added to this brilliant notebook, which could have made it even better choice for any buyer looking for great multimedia productivity features. On the other way it has ever possible multimedia productivity feature like great day today PC usage features, Average Multimedia performances and business needs.

Battery Life: Inspiron 1525 has an excellent 6-cell 56 WHr Li- ion. It delivers 2 hours and 53 minutes of battery life, which is usually and quite good for any notebook. They also have 9-cell 85 WHr Li-Ion battery, which can be bough additionally and can be add in the notebook while customizing the configuration of the notebook.

Pros:

1. Great Performance
2.Excellent with networking and connectivity options.
3. Crystal clear screen
4.Nice Keyboard, space between the keys makes it good for fast typing.
6. A wide range of connectivity, four USB ports, VGA, Fire wire, S-video & HDMI and 3 ports audio.

Cons:

1. No space for additional Graphics features and memory.
2. Very Limited Display Option
3. A bit expensive, we can buy other company’s laptops with same price and same or even better configuration and features.