Inspiron 8600. Review on Dell Inspiron 8000 Series

Dell's new notebook also includes what the company is calling its most powerful notebook graphics solution ever, the Nvidia GeForceFX Go5650 graphics accelerator.

The Inspiron 8600 includes hard drive storage options up to 80-Gbytes, DDR-333 RAM options from 512 Mbytes to 3 Gbytes; two USB and a single IEEE 1394 port, and either a rewritable CD/DVD-ROM or DVD+RW drive.

The new notebook comes with Microsoft's Windows® XP Home Edition operating system, the WordPerfect Productivity Pack, Dell Juke Box, Dell Picture Studio, and the RealOne Player for watching streaming video. Six months of America Online or Earthlink membership (new members only) is also included. The notebook ships with Dell's SecurityCenter, a collection of applications included with purchase designed to provide customers access to anti-virus, firewall and privacy protection.

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Benifits of Inspiron 8600

Intel Pentium 4-M processors up to 2.5Ghz

15.4'' 16:10 aspect displays for increased workspace

nVidia Mobile Geforce 4200 Go video chipset with 64MB of video memory

Integrated USB 2.0 and IEEE-1394 for high-speed data transfers

Integrated Gigabyte LAN controller for 10/100/1000 network connections

Up to 60GB of hard drive space with the ability to add an additional 40GB of storage using the media bay

The Inspiron 8600 utilizes the Intel Mobile Pentium 4-M processor. This processor is manufactured on a 0.13 micron, the same as the previous Pentium III-M (Tualatin) processors. This shrinking of the die not only allows for improvement in processor speeds, it also runs cooler and uses less power.

Features of the Pentium 4-M processor include:

Hyper-pipelined technology

Rapid execution engine

Execution trace cache

Advanced transfer cache

Advanced dynamic execution

Enhanced floating point/multimedia

Streaming SIMD extensions