In what Dell describes as "fashion meets function," the OEM has introduced an octuplet of color configurations for its refreshed Inspiron desktop line. That's more than what's found in some crayon boxes and includes Piano Black, Pure White, True Blue, Formula Red, Tangerine Orange, Spring Green, Plum Purple, and Promise Pink. The Promise Pink is a collaboration with Susan G. Komen for the Cure program to fight breast cancer - for every Promise Pink laptop or Mini Dell sells, it donates $5 to the cause.
The colorful Inspiron desktop line also includes a wide range of processor selections, such as Intel's Celeron, Core 2 Duo, and Core 2 Quad, and AMD's Sempron, Athlon, and Phenom X4 CPUs. Other configuration options include integrated Intel graphics or discrete ATI Radeon graphics, up to 8GB of memory, up to 750GB of storage on the slim tower and up to 1TB on the mini-tower, optional 19-in-1 media card reader, optional HDMI port, 6 USB 2.0 ports, and dual optical drive options.
The chassis itself is the same as the Dell XPS notebook that won our last notebook showdown (July 2005), so there aren’t many surprises. It’s got a gorgeous 17-inch screen with a wide notebook body to match. The chassis is solid and doesn’t exhibit any undue flexing. The insides, however, are quite different from the XPS. The hard drive, which we slammed in the XPS review for being too slow, is a much faster 100GB, 7,200rpm Hitachi drive. The GPU is nVidia’s GeForce Go 7800, and the optical drive is a Sony 8x DVD burner capable of supporting dual-layer +/- burns.
The real story is how well the E1705 numbers stack up. Once we were into our testing, we realized one serious shortcoming: The bulk of our mobile benchmarks aren’t multithreaded. So we ran a few more dual-core-oriented benchmarks and the Core Duo is indeed a butt kicker. In SYSmark 2004, for example, the E1705 is faster than our FX-55 desktop zero-point system, with a score of 210 versus 201. It also completely spanked the 2.13GHz Pentium M we built for this month’s DIY notebook feature.
The most disappointing feature of the E1705 is the laptop battery life. To test it, we loop 3DMark03 on its default settings until the box goes dead. The E1705 gave us only 78 minutes of play time, less than our zero-point rig. Worse, we weren’t able to pin down the cause. It could be that the 16-pipe 7800 sucks more power than the higher-clocked 6800 Ultra. Or possibly the Core Duo CPU requires more juice. Heck, it could even be a dud battery cell?
For entertainment junkies, or folks who need a notebook for content creation, the E1705 is hard to beat. But for gamers, or anyone wanting long-lasting laptop battery life, the E1705 can be passed on. Dell says its new slim and mini-tower Inspiron desktops debut today, with U.S. availability expected this spring starting at $299.
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