I want to buy as a present to somebody Dell laptop and choosing between Inspiron 1420 and Vostro 1400.
But what I see now on the DELL's website is confusing me.
Dell Inspiron 1420 14" screen, with Intel® Pentium® Dual Core T2330 (1.6GHz/533Mhz FSB/1MB cache), 2Gig RAM, 250GigHDD, DVD burner, memory cards reader.Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Dell Vostro 1400 also 14" screen, Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5270 (1.4GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache), 2Gig RAM, 250Gig HDD, DVD burner, DVD burner, memory cards reader, Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100.
Everything almost the same beside 1,6GHz and !.4GHz processor.
But the price difference now is significant - Inspiron 1420 cost $250 more.
Could somebody tell me if it's more significant difference between two models in quality, power, speed, reliability etc. what jusify the price difference?
Or it's just market tricks?
Thanks everybody in advance for advices

There is not much difference except for the paint scheme and I think some of the pre-loaded software (Vostro is geared towards business, generally has less crap). If you don't want the extra CPU power, and want to save some cash, the Vostro is a good choice.

Stu

Also the Vostro is purchased through the small business sector of dell, and I have found the support to be a little bit better in that regard, as well I got all the software, and real manuals, including the service manual on my Vostro 1500, something you do not get with inspirons, or at least I didnt on my last 3....

It comes with less bloatware as well. One caveat though, it also does not come with restore partition that I think the Inspiron comes with. The good is you get more HDD space, the bad is you have to manually backup and restore. =)

Other than that, the mainboard, and other hardware is about the same, same as in performance.

-D