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New Inspiron Line officially released!

post #1 of 120
6/26/07 at 3:30am
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Looks like the rumored june 26th date was correct. It's nice to finally see something new . Looks like they've taken a step to customization with all the colors:

http://www.dell.com/content/products...n&s=dhs&~ck=mn

The 1720 has the 8600M GT as expected, I'm looking forward to the next offering when its released, probably the 8800gs. I also noticed the blu-ray drive option, which is nice to see on something other than the M1710. Also, they have dual hard-drive options. One weird thing is that all the hard drive options are 5400rpm, no 7200rpm at all.

The M1710 is now sitting there as last gen. I can't wait til it's replaced when probably the 8800 comes out, I've been saving up money for quite some time for it. I'm interested to see what it'll look like as well.
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post #2 of 120
6/26/07 at 3:55am
Yuuuup...

http://www.dell.com/content/products...=19&l=en&s=dhs
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post #3 of 120
6/26/07 at 4:44am
Hmm, I don't know if I should get excited. I priced a low end 1720 and it came to $1694 before taxes. I can get the old 1705 for $1K. I don' t see $700 in impovements, granted it does look better.

1720 specs:
SYSTEM COLOR Ruby Red edit
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® Vista Home Premium Edition edit
DISPLAY High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200) edit
VIDEO CARD 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 8400M GS edit
MEMORY 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz edit
HARD DRIVE Size: 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit
OPTICAL DRIVE CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive) edit
BATTERY OPTIONS 85Whr Lithium Ion Battery (9 cell) edit
SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Stereo High Definition Audio edit
WIRELESS NETWORKING Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-Card edit
BLUETOOTH OPTIONS Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR) edit
INTEGRATED WEBCAM Integrated 2.0 Megapixel Webcam

1705:
T7200 C2D 2.0
2GB RAM
x1400
WUXGA screen
120GB HD
wifi but no BT
DVDRW
1 year mail in warranty.

Which would you choose guys? I don't game, and I'm upgrading from a 9300 2.13-PM. 1K vs 1.7K (before taxes).
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post #4 of 120
6/26/07 at 4:52am
The 8600GT 256mb in both the 1520 and 1720..... hmmmm, i think i will choose the 1520

The 8600gt should handle the 1680x1050 res better
You lose RAID with the 1520, 1720 has dual HDD option
1520 about $300 cheaper with the same specs

edit* Actually it doesn't say if RAID is supported, shame
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post #5 of 120
6/26/07 at 7:37am
Turion, eww...

Hmm, and the video card options are DOWNGRADED. Those 8400M and 8600M cards are worse than a 7900GS. Only upside is they are DX10 compatible. I suppose a 8600M GT is close enough in speed that it might not make a huge difference.

Anyone wanna make a mod to insert a 8600M into a current E1705? Or maybe one of those colored covers, I could go for one of those for mine too

~Ricky

[edit] Oh, double-eww, they ONLY have 7200RPM drives!
Although this kinda makes me glad I have my E1705 and not this junk. If I were buying a new laptop right now, I would either go for the E1705 still or wait for this junk to catch up. Dell did not make good choices, I guess they are trying to corner gamers into buying the super-expensive XPS machines... [/edit]
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post #6 of 120
6/26/07 at 8:52am
And this, dear friends, is why when someone comes on purporting and extolling the virtues that HE has a friend at Dell who *confirms* they have the 8800Go GTX, you can look blindly in their falsely jovial faces and say "bullshit."
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post #7 of 120
6/26/07 at 9:31am
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Originally Posted by Spinitch View Post
The 8600GT 256mb in both the 1520 and 1720..... hmmmm, i think i will choose the 1520 The 8600gt should handle the 1680x1050 res better You lose RAID with the 1520, 1720 has dual HDD option 1520 about $300 cheaper with the same specs edit* Actually it doesn't say if RAID is supported, shame
Yup, there is no reason to get the 17" for now. I'm pretty sure it will be upgradable to better card though. The new XPS looks pretty sweet though.
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post #8 of 120
6/26/07 at 10:06am
I love the looks of the new 1330. However, the video card options are pathetic. What the hell are they thinking?
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post #9 of 120
6/26/07 at 10:09am
Maybe they changed the motherboards on us. Anyways I noticed that they have Blu Ray Drive for the Inspirons! Maybe now I can get one for my M1710, but is it really 660 Dollars? WTF?
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post #10 of 120
6/26/07 at 10:42am
sigh... my notebooks are officially obsolete now...
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post #11 of 120
6/26/07 at 11:03am
It looks nice, but the 8600 is not good for me. Plus, home people don't get 4 year warranties. I'll check EPP. Nice that 1920 x 1200 is still there. But Dell totally rips you off charging $900 for 4 gb of memory.

Seem like an E1705 with a 7800 or 7900 is still good and I'm gonna keep mine.

And Bluray is just too expensive now. When a Blu Ray dvd drive and a player cost $200 I get one and I'll also get an HD camcorder too.
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post #12 of 120
6/26/07 at 11:27am
so whats so good about this new santa rose platform? nothing?
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post #13 of 120
6/26/07 at 11:28am
dun dun dun....sorry for all of you that missed buying a gamers system
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post #14 of 120
6/26/07 at 11:30am
Someone buy the 1330 and post some benches! 1330 deserves better card than that though.
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post #15 of 120
6/26/07 at 11:44am
overall...not impressed... Come on Dell ,where's the mic? better sound card solution? Biometrics? ...etc

...oh yeah I hate the numeric keypad.
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post #16 of 120
6/26/07 at 11:48am
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Originally Posted by SolApathy View Post
overall...not impressed... Come on Dell ,where's the mic? better sound card solution? Biometrics? ...etc

...oh yeah I hate the numeric keypad.

I completely agree. Overall I'm not that impressed, the new look isn't even that big of a deal. I'm really hoping there's something good in store for the new XPS or I'm going to look somewhere else.
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post #17 of 120
6/26/07 at 11:57am
Worst thing is the size of housing seems pretty identical to old series, just little more rounder on corners...
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post #18 of 120
6/26/07 at 12:13pm
Awwww man this makes me appreciate my 1705 even more.

I think Dell was smart to offer a decnet card like the GS in a midrange notebook like the 1705.

Now they are all loaded w/ lower end GPU's.

I think someone said it above that they are luring gamers into XPS's. Totally uncool marketing strategy.

DOES THIS MEAN THE 1705/1501/1505 ARE DISCONTINUED?
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post #19 of 120
6/26/07 at 12:24pm
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Originally Posted by ghazgull013 View Post
I think Dell was smart to offer a decnet card like the GS in a midrange notebook like the 1705.
smart because more people bought Dells but they look at it as not smart because they think all the gamers that bought inspirons would have bought XPS if they had a lower GPU in the 17" inspirons.
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I think someone said it above that they are luring gamers into XPS's. Totally uncool marketing strategy.
Not for them. They think that all the people will buy XPS now instead of inspiron. what they don't know is that if I'm going to spend that kind of money on a laptop then I'm going to buy a Clevo based laptop.
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DOES THIS MEAN THE 1705/1501/1505 ARE DISCONTINUED?
pretty much, they'll be available in the outlet for quite a while though.
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post #20 of 120
6/26/07 at 12:32pm
The 1720 looks amazing. To anyone complaining about price, what do you expect, it is a brand new model, it would be stupid for them to instantly give out any kind of promotional pricing. It's not Dell's fault that the best video card they could offer is the 8600 - they are still waiting on nVidia to finalize the 8700. Over all the 1720 looks to be light years ahead of the E1705. I'll be upgrading my Inspiron 9300 as soon as I see these for 25-35% off
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