Dell Announces New Inspiron Notebooks and Desktops

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Dell today has unveiled its next generation of Inspiron laptops. The Inspiron 1420, Inspiron 1520 and Inspiron 1720 are all powered by Intel's new Santa Rosa platform while the Inspiron 1521 and Inspiron 1721 have AMD processors under the hood.

Dell Inspiron 1520 and 1521

The Dell Inspiron 1520 is a 15.4&quot; widescreen notebook powered by the Intel Santa Rosa platform. The Inspiron 1520 replaces the popular Inspiron e1505 notebook. Gone from the 1520 are the white bumpers that the Inspiron e1505 had though. Dell is sprucing things up by giving buyers the choice between 8-different colors for the lid. Ruby Red, Midnight Blue and Jet Black are just a few examples of choices you'll get.

Dell Inspiron 1520 Specifications

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (up to 2.2GHz 800MHz)
• Chipset Intel 965PM/ GM (Santa Rosa)
• Memory: 1 - 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM Up to 667MHz
• Storage: SATA Hard Drives Options of 80, 120, 160 GB
• Optical Drives: DVD/CD-RW Combo, DVD+/-RW with Dual Layer DVD+R write capacity, or Blu-ray Disc Drive
• Graphics: Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, NVIDIA GeForce Go 8400M GS with 128MB DDR2
  dedicated graphic memory, or NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT with 256MB DDR2 dedicated graphic memory
• Display Options: 15.4&quot; UltraSharp Wide Screen UXGA (1920x1200) display, with TrueLife, 15.4&quot; Wide Screen XGA+ (1440x900) display with TrueLife, or 15.4&quot; Wide Screen XGA+ (1440x900) display
• Network &amp; Wireless: Integrated 10/100 LAN and 56k modem, internal Wi-Fi (802.11g, a/g, or draft n), and optional Bluetooth
• Mobile Broadband Integrated EV-DO (Rev A) from Verizon &amp; Sprint or HSPDA from Cingular options
• Colors: Jet Black with matte finish or Alpine White with gloss finish, Ruby Red, Midnight Blue, Spring Green, Sunshine Yellow, Espresso, or Bubble Gum Pink with microsatin finish
• Media Card Slot 8-in-1 flash memory reader supporting Memory Stick, SD, SDIO, SDHC, SDHD, MS, MS Pro, MMC and Xd formats.
• Integrated 2.0MP web camera
• I/O Ports: 4 USB 2.0, VGA, IEEE 1394, S-Video, Two Type IIIA Mini-Card Slot
• Operating System Choices: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Microsoft Windows Vista Business, and Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
• Battery 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion Battery or optional 9-cell 85WHr Li-Ion Battery
• Dimensions: (h) 37.3 mm (1.47 inches) - front 45 mm (1.65 inches) - back/ (w) 358.7 mm (14.12 inches) / (d) 269 mm (10.59 inches)
• Weight Preliminary weight starting at 3.0 kg (6.61 lbs)
• Warranty 1 year limited warranty standard with options up to 4 years
• Pricing starts at $849

The Dell Inspiron 1521 is the same in terms of design and build except it will offer an AMD processor and platform. So the processor and graphics options for the 1521 will be as follows:

• Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core Processors (up to 2.3GHz 800MHz)
• Chipset: ATI 690T / 600SB
• Graphics: Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress (x1270) Graphics Solution
• Prices start at $749

Dell Inspiron 1720 and 1721

The Dell Inspiron 1720 is the larger brother of the Inspiron 1520. The 1720 sports a 17&quot; widescreen display and comes with the same 8-color options as the 1520. The Inspiron 1720 of course has the new Intel Santa Rosa platform, while the Dell Inspiron 1721 has an AMD platform. The Inspiron 1720 specs are as follows:

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (up to 2.2GHz 800MHz)
• Chipset Intel 965PM/ GM (Santa Rosa)
• Memory: 1 - 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM Up to 667MHz
• Storage: SATA Hard Drives Options of 80, 120, 160 GB
• Optical Drives: DVD/CD-RW Combo, DVD+/-RW with Dual Layer DVD+R write capacity, or Blu-ray Disc Drive
• Graphics Options: Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, NVIDIA GeForce Go 8400M GS with 128MB DDR2
  dedicated graphic memory, or NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT with 256MB DDR2 dedicated graphic memory
• Display Options: 17&quot; UltraSharp Wide Screen UXGA 1920x1200) display, with TrueLife, 17&quot; Wide Screen XGA+ 1440x900) display with TrueLife, or 17&quot; Wide Screen XGA+ (1440x900) display
• Network &amp; Wireless: Integrated 10/100 LAN and 56k modem, internal Wi-Fi (802.11g, a/g, or draft n), and optional Bluetooth
• Mobile Broadband Integrated EV-DO (Rev A) from Verizon &amp; Sprint or HSPDA from Cingular options
• Colors: Jet Black with matte finish or Alpine White with gloss finish, Ruby Red, Midnight Blue, Spring Green, Sunshine Yellow, Espresso, or Bubble Gum Pink with microsatin finish
• Media Card Slot 8-in-1 flash memory reader supporting Memory Stick, SD, SDIO, SDHC, SDHD, MS, MS Pro, MMC and Xd formats.
• Integrated 2.0MP web camera
• I/O Ports: 4 USB 2.0, VGA, IEEE 1394, S-Video, Two Type IIIA Mini-Card Slot
• Operating System Choices: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Microsoft Windows Vista Business, and Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
• Battery 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion Battery or optional 9-cell 85WHr Li-Ion Battery
• Dimensions: (h) 39 mm (1.5 inches) - front 44 mm (1.7 inches) - back/ (w) 394 mm (15.5 inches)/ (d) 293 mm (11.5 inches)
• Preliminary weight starting at 3.6 kg (7.8 lbs)
• Warranty 1 year limited warranty standard with options up to 4 years
• Prices start at $999

The Inspiron 1720 should give the option of having two hard drives and therefore software RAID will be possible. The Inspiron 1721 will provide the following options:

• Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core Processors (up to 2.3GHz 800MHz)
• Chipset: ATI 690T / 600SB
• Graphics: Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress (x1270) Graphics Solution
• Prices start at $899

Dell Inspiron 1420

The Dell Inspiron 1420 is the runt of the new Inspiron litter with its 14.1&quot; widescreen display. But it's probably the perfect size for those that need to be able to carry a laptop around a lot. Following are the full specs:

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (up to 2.2GHz 800MHz)
• Chipset Intel 965PM/ GM (Santa Rosa)
• Memory: 1 - 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM Up to 667MHz
• Storage: SATA Hard Drives Options of 80, 120, 160 GB
• Optical Drives: DVD/CD-RW Combo, DVD+/-RW with Dual Layer DVD+R write capacity, or Blu-ray Disc Drive
• Graphics: Intel Integrated X3100 or optional NVIDIA GeForce Go 8400M GS with 128MB GDDR3 dedicated graphics memory
• Display Options: 14.1&quot; Wide Screen XGA+ (1440x900) display, with TrueLife, 14.1&quot; Wide Screen XGA+ (1440x900) display, with TrueLife, 14.1&quot; Wide Screen XGA (1280x800) display
• Network &amp; Wireless: Integrated 10/100 LAN and 56k modem, internal Wi-Fi (802.11g, a/g, or draft n), and optional Bluetooth
• Mobile Broadband Integrated EV-DO (Rev A) from Verizon &amp; Sprint or HSPDA from Cingular options
• Colors: Jet Black with matte finish or Alpine White with gloss finish, Ruby Red, Midnight Blue, Spring Green, Sunshine Yellow, Espresso, or Bubble Gum Pink with microsatin finish
• Media Card Slot 8-in-1 flash memory reader supporting Memory Stick, SD, SDIO, SDHC, SDHD, MS, MS Pro, MMC and Xd formats.
• Integrated 2.0MP web camera
• I/O Ports: 4 USB 2.0, VGA, IEEE 1394, S-Video, Two Type IIIA Mini-Card Slot
• Operating System Choices: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Microsoft Windows Vista Business, and Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
• Battery 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion Battery or optional 9-cell 85WHr Li-Ion Battery
• Dimensions: 6-cell (h) 20.4 mm (0.80 inch)/ (w) 209.4 mm (8.24 inches) / (d) 69.25 mm (2.73 inches)
• Weight Preliminary weight starting at 5.5lbs
• Warranty 1 year limited warranty standard with options up to 4 years
• Prices start at $799

Dell Inspiron 530, 530s and 531, 531s desktops

That's right, the Inspiron line now covers both notebooks and desktops! Dell Inspiron desktops are designed to help customers take control of their digital life, offering impressive flexibility in choice of form factors and configurations. The mini-tower supports expandability, while the slim-tower is 41 percent smaller in size, but doesn’t compromise on performance. Starting at $349, all can be configured with a wide variety of technologies, like robust graphics, widescreen displays, TV tuner cards and sound systems that can easily take on challenging digital entertainment and gaming activities.

Inspiron desktops make great media hubs, supporting up to 500GB of hard drive space and can be configured with Dell DataSafeBackup Internal, which provides fast, easy, and automatic local backup of everything on the hard drive.  The Inspiron 530 and 530s desktops feature Celeron to Intel Core 2 Duo processors, and the Inspiron 531 and 531s feature AMD Sempron to Athlon 64 X2 dual core processors. Other features include

• Optional internal Wi-Fi networking allows customers to place their desktop where they want instead of where the Ethernet cable is.
• Large hard drive capacity (up to 500GB) to store and manage large digital media files, like photos, videos, music, etc.
• Range of graphics solution, from integrated graphics for everyday productivity, email and web browsing to high performance discrete graphics supporting high resolution monitors and dual displays, 3-D gaming, HDTV (1080p)
• Ports include eight or ten USB 2.0 (slim-tower/mini-tower),
• Variety of multi-media options including 13-1 media card reader,  IEEE 1394, TV-Tuner cards, X-Fi sound cards
• Choice of Microsoft Windows Vista Basic or Premium or Ubuntu Linux distribution (Inspiron 530 only)
• Base one-year limited warranty with optional Dell On Call “how-to” value-added service
• Starting Prices: Inspiron 530/530s – $349; 531/531s – $349.

 

Dell Inspiron 1520 Specifications

Display Options: 15.4" UltraSharp Wide Screen UXGA (1920x1200).

I don't see this option. :-S

Also, under product details:

15.4" UltraSharpTM Wide Screen SXGA+ (1680x1050) display with TrueLifeTM
15.4" Wide Screen XGA+ (1440x900) display with TrueLifeTM
15.4" Wide Screen XGA (1280x800) display with TrueLifeTM
15.4" Wide Screen XGA (1280x800) display

I will be getting this if the 1520 supports UXGA (1920x1200).

 

WOWWWWWWWWWWW

I loved the price! I will get one very soon!!!! U$ 1.397:

My Components
Jet Black
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5250 (1.5GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
Genuine Windows ® Vista Home Premium Edition
Glossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280x800)
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 8600M GT
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
Size: 120GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)
85Whr Lithium Ion Battery (9 cell)
High Definition Audio 2.0
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini-Card
Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam
My Accessories
No Security Subscription (Norton 30-day)
Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
No Entertainment software pre-installed
My Service
1Yr Ltd Warranty and Mail-In Service
No Dell On Call
Free 3GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Year
6 Months America Online Internet Access Included
Also Includes
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.08
Spring Green color w/ 2.0M pixel Camera
Windows Vista™ Basic
Intel® Core™2 Duo Label

____________________________-

OHHHH and what about the coupons?????? Imagine a 400$ coupon?????

WOW ... bye bye azus!!!!

 

wow, 1080p high def movies on a 15.4" display (*drools* , wants one when bluray players fall in price)

edit: although on the site they only had up to WSXGA+ on the 15.4" . I thought it was too good to be true

 

It's only DDR2? Why does no one use DDR3?

 

WOW again!!!!!!!!

Dell has all the drivers for the new line for XP64 Xp and Vista!

The only thing is that they are not selling XP64 or no os version

But they have the drivers.... so you can downgrade! NICE! Thanks Dell!

 

Too bad there's no HDMI port on these like there is on the XPS 1330

 

Are you serious?!?!?!?!

First off, price.
Second off, bad latencies
Third off, the mainboard is a 965... only P35 and X38 can support DDR3.

x.x

 

Notebook DDR3 isn't even being manufactured...

As for WUXGA, it is a really LARGE resolution for a 15.4" screen...and videos will just scale back to 1680x1050 and still look just about as good.

 

for 1420 ..
Dimensions: 6-cell (h) 20.4 mm (0.80 inch)/ (w) 209.4 mm (8.24 inches) / (d) 69.25 mm (2.73 inches)

is it the battery dimension? can u tell me the notebook's dimension?

 

Weird, why are they releasing Inspiron desktops? Confusing.... Dimension still around?

 

These laptops are nice. Dell even made the new little icon things when you customize your system... Now all they need to do is to release more coupons.

 

No. They just changed the model line name from Dimension to Inspiron.

 

The only thing left is to wait for the coupon codes for the Inspiron Notebooks to be out.
The current $500 off coupons aren't applicable for the new Inspirons.

 

i still ordered mine today. Ill be sure to give a very detailed review once i get it.

 

Any word on if the 8600gt Dell is using is gddr2 or gddr3 ram like the Asus g1s? This is a big deal in my opinion.

 

it's in the specs: GDDR2. only MBP and G1s have GDDR3 so far.. and so is the price difference

 

Some people have spoken with Dell over the phone and they say its actually GDDR3. Hopefully this will be cleared up in the next few days.

 

...because Dell's sales reps know what they're selling. *laugh* Anywho, I wish they'd bring 1920x1200 back to the 15.4" screens. I don't see why I would downgrade to anything less if I'm going to be carrying around something quite so heavy.

 

Haha, when I asked why it wasn't DDR3, I was referring to the 8600GT. Why is it only that the MBP and G1S use GDDR3? Everyone else with the 8600GT uses DDR2.

 

Sorry to say this but after playing abit with specs on the 1720 I don't see anything hot about the new Inspiron line .

For about 1500$ you'd get a Santa Rosa machine that is not much better then the one ( 9400 ) you could get for the same price a month ago .

In fact all the major improved features are very expensive and will bump the price well over 2000$ ( just add B-ray +700$ , Dual drives +300$ ).

A Dell at 2000$ ? I don't think so . Dell has fumbled again as it no longer offers better value for money , let alone any sense of style .

 

Its too bad these are way overpriced! if coupons don;t come out soon I can't see many ppl paying for these

I configured an hpdv2500t and a dell1420 with the same specs and warranty and the hp came out $500 cheaper almost

 

its really verry expensive and ugly too u can get ASUS G1S-A1 for 1800 + free shipping better lookin and better specs
I HATE DELL LAPTOPS

-Jabriiiz

 

LOOOOL and its use GDDR2 4 vram !!!! that really bad !!!

-Jabriiiz

 

I dont know what you guys are talking about I just configured a Inspiron 1520

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7100 (2MB cache/1.8GHz/800Mhz FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium Edition
SYSTEM COLOUR Spring Green Color with Microsatin Finish
LCD DISPLAY 15.4 inch UltraSharp ™ Wide Screen SXGA+ Display with TrueLife™
INTEGRATED WEBCAM Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam
MEMORY 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 Dimm
HARD DRIVE 120G 5400RPM SATA HDD
GRAPHICS CARD 256MB NVIDIA ®GeForce™8600M GT
OPTICAL DRIVE 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability

With stock battery and wireless and 1 year warrenty for $1,439 Canadian.Thats a sick price for a 15.4" santa rose notebook with a 8600 GT, I have been looking at the ASUS F3SV-B1, that only has a 8600 GS and still costs $1779 Canadian. I refuse to buy HP due to past experiances so I dont know what they cost, but the only comparable notebooks (value wise) to this dell I have found are barbones systes like the asus C90s and the compal IF90.

 

Waaa, hurry up and release the 1420 over here!

EDIT: Just released in Australia! (Well, might just had had to wait for the cache to expire.)

Priced very reasonably. On par with the models its replacing.

 

Yea but that price is with the worst resolution, no 2ghz processor, and only 1 year warranty. That is a horrible deal

 

Yes, but the G1s was around 2K when people were preordering it if I remember correctly. I am sure you could find it for less calling around, but I know when I looked around at pre-release prices the cheapest advertised price I saw for the G1s was $1929 from Excalibur PC.

 

This is one of the things I like about Dell. Say what you want, but I am glad I don't have to count on ATI to produce drivers for my ATI X1400 when using Vista. Dell has plenty of faults. But having easy access to updated drivers isn't one of them. Type in service tag ID and all your drivers appear and ready to download.

 

I think this may be it for Dell for me.

I *really* do *not* like how the keyboard is off-center.

A laptop on your lap like this really sucks, because the laptop will be sticking off to the right, while risking falling off your left leg. No good for on the train or airplane.

I really don't like my hands being off to the left like that. My god, what a mess up.

 

some of you guys must be out of your minds I guess.. when the coupons will be out, can any of you buy any other 8600GT lappie with about only $999 ? don't think so..

 

Actually, that has the best screen possible. WXGA would be the worst at 1200x800, whereas WSXGA+ is 1680x1050, which is as good as many 17" laptops (and better than my WXGA+ 1440x900). Also keep in mind that this is Canadian money, not US.

 

Any idea when these will be out in the UK anyone??

Cheers

 

IS it just me or do you guys think that the new shoping interface is better? I specially liked the video help.

Ohh did you guys notice the free recycling option? And the plant a tree for me for U$ 2,00???? I think it´s a nice initiative.

 

It's not just you.

 

According to this chart: http://www.dell.com/content/learnmo...nspnnb&~mode=popup&~series=inspn&~tab=details
and the reference numbers here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series#GeForce_8600M_Series

Dell uses GDDR3 for their 8600M GT option

 

well according to Dell chart nothing is obvious there.. and according to Wikipedia even the failure card called 8400G would use GDDR3 which is extremely false!

 

According to the Dell chart, the max memory bandwidth is equal to a reference memory clocked GDDR3 version of the 8600M GT. If it was DDR2, there is no way it can provide the same bandwidth as higher clocked GDDR3 memory.