Overview: DELL was famous for the Bulky notebook design in earlier years, but this year they have impressed laptop’s market with some stunning new notebooks releases. They recently launched their DELL STUDIO laptop series, under that they have launched STUDIO 15 and STUDIO 17 notebooks. Studio series notebooks are highly customizable and packed with powerful performance features and configuration. They are unique as well, as they look sleek, stylish and really different from other company’s notebooks. An overall DELL Studio 17 notebook is a really great choice for those who like looks with performance at the same time.

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Product Details
1.6GHz Intel Core i7-720QM Processor with 6MB cache and Turbo Mode up to 2.8GHz 6GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz (two DIMMs) 500GB, 7200 RPM SATA hard drive; Slot-Loading DVD+/-RW with Double-Layer Write Capability 17.3" HD+ (900p) LED display with TrueLife; HDMI output Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit) operating system

Design and Looks: As I have mentioned earlier that dell was a brand name associated with ugly looking bulky notebooks with good performance, but they have proved everybody wrong, with their new Studio series notebooks, as they are able to produce great performances and it is sleek and stylish as well. Certainly make Dell a great choice for looks and styles oriented notebook users. Studio 17 looks like they have updated DELL XPS M 1530, but it is more aimed towards solid design and construction. Its 17 inches wide screen can be a bit larger for those mobility based users, but it could be a perfect desktop replacement notebook as well. As I have mentioned that Studio 17 notebooks seems to be highly inspired with DELL XPS series laptop because it has almost same feel and look like well designed hinges, touch sensitive media buttons, Matte finish colors on outer Body. Dell have launched Studio 17 with 7 colors option for their customers that includes Flamingo Pink, Midnight Blue, Tangerine Orange, Plum Purple, Ruby Red, Spring Green and default standard Jet black. It has Matte finish color texture just similar to inspiron series notebooks. Overall if we look at the build and design of Studio 17 notebook I must say is quite incredible than their earlier version, they have improved a lot on style, color and those vital aspects that makes Dell’s notebooks stand apart in competition.

Screen, Display and Speakers: As its name gives you better idea, Yes DELL’s Studio 17 has a 17 inch WXGA wide display screen. Dell offers you to go with WXGA Glossy Display with 1440 x 900 resolutions or 1920 x 1200. When I saw my Dell Studio 17 notebook its display screen was looking pretty nice. I must say its 17 inch screen would be ideal for those who use laptops for HD movies with Blu-Ray disks, as it also have option for Blu-ray disk. And for those graphic designers who want to use it for their design work, it suits them perfect as well. Well now let’s move on to the Speakers and studio output of studio 17 notebook, I must say its speakers are quite able to produce good quality sounds and audio output, I have noticed that Dell have improved a lot on speaker since their earlier releases, it has inbuilt subwoofers which makes sounds quality even better. Its speakers are located just above to the keyboard. Can’t describe more on the speaker, must say they are quite good in my opinion. And yes of course it has headphones jack slots available if you still want better and refined sounds solution.

Media Controls, Touchpad and Keyboard: Dell Have produced one of the best keyboards with this Studio 17 notebook. I’m really impressed with key interfaces as it has enough wide space between keys, which makes typing convenient and fast as well. And yes when you’re in dark area or without light it has backlight feature which makes even easier to type in the dark. Well let’s move on to connectivity performance and features available in Dell Studio 17 notebook. It has FireWire 5 USB ports Microphone Jack, 8in one card reader, expressed card slot and Ethernet port. Well yes, it also has Bluetooth device integration as well to connect to your Bluetooth headphones, Mouse and mobile phones as well. Dell Studio has traditional DVD/CD writer Drive and with optional featured for adding “Blu-Ray” disk reader.

Battery Life: 9-cell lithium-ion battery provides excellent battery life for the Studio 17. 9-cell battery delivers more than 2 hours of battery life. With the power management settings set to “power saver” with wireless off and the screen brightness set to 50 percent the 9-cell battery could deliver more than 2 hours and 39 minutes of life. I think it’s quite good as far as it is compared to other notebook’s battery life.

Performance and Productivity: Well what I can say about Studio 17’s productivity and performance, as it’s a power pack well configured notebooks for every aspects. It is well equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 Processor [2.5GHZ], 3GB of Ram which is well enough for every task and vista basic memory usage. Beside that it has 320 GB of Toshiba Hard Disk with 5400 RPM. All these great configuration features makes this notebook a performance based machine with great sleek looks and 17 inches wide Display screen. For Dedicated graphics and addiction memory it has ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics card, which is quite a good source for power gaming and 3D Aero windows interface applications.

Pros

• Beautiful design
• Solid selection of available configurations
• Reasonable battery life
• Nice keyboard, touchpad and media buttons
• Great component layout
• Dell Dock is a nice feature
• Good value for the price

Cons

• No lugs/screw posts for VGA cable and no docking station connector
• All-in-one access cover on the bottom of the notebook is either great or frustrating