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    Dell Inspiron N5010

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Ugin, Aug 2, 2010.

  1. Ugin

    Ugin Newbie

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    After a long thinking i decided to go for Dell Inspiron N5010 but before i buy it i would like to here your comments about the product
     
  2. rippeer

    rippeer Notebook Evangelist

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    I like mine. It seems just as snappy as my alienware in sig in windows. I've got up to and over 3 hours battery life surfing, msn and listening to music off my server. Its built a lot solider than I thought.
    After handling it exclusively for a few days my older thinkpad Z61t (a thin a light dual core) felt outdated and seemed to flex more. The keyboard is a plesaent surpise. I do miss have some form of lighting for the keyboard at night but one can simply angle the screen down a bit. The keys feel as if they are off just ever so slightly for alingment, I often find myself missing a key by a key, but I also that on my Alienware which I am typing this on.

    Over all unless you game I think its a great bargin for the price. Also It chews up videos with or with out added codecs. I watched a blu ray rip of madagascar to and the cpu never broke 5%.
    I have also hooked up over VGA to a beyound HD 23" Samsung screen and watch video with out problem streaming over from my server. It beats my Alienware in network wifi file copy speeds.

    I have an older monitor/TV and when I hooked up HDMI through my AVR it decided it was 1280*1024 monitor and not 1366*768 16:9 TV. Never really played around to see if there is a work around.

    Oh yeah the screen. While not the best one I have seen, it is one of the better. The brightness is amazing. I like bright screens and I keep this puppy at 50% when inside. I haven't tried it outside. Colours can be very viberant and right such as on windows media players visulizations. Since its a small screen size and doesn't have a blu-ray drive I view it as web/spreadsheet/word machine and like the lower resolution. I would have prefered even lower since most websites are still formatted for low resoultion displays and higher resolution displays just result in lots of white spacing and padding when surging. The screen definatly has a sweet spot but most of the time you can be pretty law about where you have it. According to everest ultimate mine had a Samsung sometheing or other panel

    Hope this helps
     
  3. Ugin

    Ugin Newbie

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    10x man :)
     
  4. mostwanted115

    mostwanted115 Notebook Consultant

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    rippeer, did you try one game or two on it?

    Ugin, did you buy it?