Dell Inspiron 1150

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Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 30 reviews
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Product summary

Specifications: Processor: Intel Celeron (2.60 GHz); RAM installed: 256 MB DDR SDRAM; Weight: 7.3 lbs; See full specs

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CNET editors' take

Reviewed by: Tom Dunlap
Reviewed on: 03/30/2004

Dell upgraded its line of mainstream laptops today, adding the highly customizable Dell Inspiron 1150 to its stable. At an impressively low $799, this laptop is surprisingly cheap and can be configured with an Intel Celeron chip, a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor, and one of two flavors of integrated wireless.

Upside: The Dell Inspiron 1150 offers an exceptional array of options, many of them more often found on higher-priced laptops. Dell lets you choose from two screen sizes, 14.1- or 15-inch; a Celeron at 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz, or 2.6GHz speeds; a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 in 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz iterations; and a choice of the Dell Wireless 1350 802.11b/g or the Dell Wireless 1450 dual-band 802.11a/b/g wireless setup. Memory can be configured from 128MB to 1GB, and hard drive options range from 20GB to 60GB.

Downside: The Dell Inspiron 1150 ranges in thickness from 1.75 inches in the front to 1.89 inches at the back and tips the scales at more than 7 pounds, so it's not a laptop for the travel happy. And if you want to swap out your media module for maximum optimization--say, to replace your plain-Jane CD-ROM drive with a DVD-burner--look elsewhere. The Inspiron 1150's drive is fixed.

Outlook: Dell has created some of the best cheap laptops on the market, and the highly customizable Inspiron 1150 looks to be a solid addition. Check back for a full review.

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Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 30 reviews
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3.5 stars

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

"Great Low-Cost Laptop"

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4.5 stars

"Max Memory 2GB"

by slashpt on March 8, 2008

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4.5 stars

"Not just a house item"

by bukarro on February 11, 2008

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1.5 stars

"Watch out the power cord"

by elearningpm on October 16, 2005

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1.5 stars

"Ok laptops but problems with laptop with less than 6 months (Something to do with the input power)"

by Schr91 on August 28, 2005

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pcmag.com

Editors' rating: 40

Summary: The Dell Inspiron 1150 gives you the bare essentials in a student notebook. But you may be paying for the name; the competition beat the Inspiron in features and performance. (Since we wrote this review, Dell has updated the processor and raised the price

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