Dell Inspiron 8600: Mobile Multimedia goes Wide Screen
by Andrew Ku on October 9, 2003 1:00 AM EST- Posted in
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The Test
| Windows XP Professional Test System | |||||||
| Dell Inspiron 8600 | Dell Latitude D800 | Gigabyte NB-1401 | IBM T40 | IBM X31 | Desktop System | ||
| CPU(s) | Pentium M 1.7GHz | Pentium M 1.6GHz | Pentium M 1.4GHz | Pentium M 1.5GHz | Pentium M 1.4GHz | Pentium 4 2.4GHz | |
| Motherboard(s) | Dell 855PM | Dell 855PM | FIC 855GM | IBM 855PM | IBM 855PM | Intel D845EBT 845E | |
| Memory | 512MB PC2700 | 512MB PC2100 | 512MB PC2100 | 256MB PC2100 | 256MB PC2100 | 512MB PC2100 | |
| Hard Drive | 60GB 7200RPM | 40GB 5400RPM | 40GB 4200RPM | 40GB 5400RPM | 40GB 4200RPM | IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM | |
| CDROM | DVD+RW | CD-RW/DVD | CD-RW/DVD | CD-RW/DVD | N/A | Philips 48X | |
| Video Card(s) | NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650 128MB DDR | NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go 64MB DDR | Integrated 855PM | ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 | ATI Mobility Radeon 16MB DDR | ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB |
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| Ethernet | Onboard Broadcom 10/100 | Onboard Intel Gigabit | Onboard Intel Gigabit | Onboard Intel Gigabit | Onboard Intel Gigabit | Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter | |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional SP1 | ||||||
| Video Drivers | NVIDIA 44.82 (latest available for Dell) | NVIDIA 42.56 (latest available for Dell) | Intel 6.13.10.3510 | ATI 6.13.10.6278 (latest available for IBM) |
ATI 7.79.7.3 (latest available for IBM) | ATI Catalyst 3.1 NVIDIA 41.09 |
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| Benchmarking Applications | Bapco SysMark 2002 ZDM Content Creation Winstone 2003 ZDM Business Winstone 2002 BAPCo Mobile Mark 2002 |
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For benchmarking purposes, we will stick with our normal array of benchmarks. For 3D benchmarks, we would reference our ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650 review.
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Anonymous User - Thursday, October 9, 2003 - link
I'd love to buy a wide screen LCD for my not-mobile computer, is there any ? Can't find a review of such a thing