FS: Dell Inspiron 1100 Laptop Computer. Good Deal.
04-01-2008, 05:46 PM
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FS: Dell Inspiron 1100 Laptop Computer. Good Deal. Heres a description of the laptop. It is in great condition. Included is the laptop, and the charger. For an extra 40.00 I will include a brand new NetGear Wireless Internet Card. For an extra 25.00 I will include a Kenneth Cole Laptop Carrying Case. Located in the Fsu area. Looking for 300. PRICE REDUCED - 250.00
You can't mistake the Inspiron 1100's lineage: it sports the same "Venice blue and moonlight silver" case as all new Inspirons, including the 600m and the 8600. In fact, the Inspiron 1100 shares its case design with the more expensive Inspiron 5100, which carries more cutting-edge components than the 1100.
With a 14.1-inch screen, the Inspiron 1100's case measures 12.9 by 10.8 by 1.7 inches and weighs 7.4 pounds, average for a mainstream notebook. There's also an optional 15-inch display that jacks up size and weight slightly. You won't want to travel a lot with either one, but taking them on occasional jaunts won't do you in, either.
The keyboard is wide and firm.
The Inspiron 1100's touchpad and mouse buttons are big and smooth.
Large cases such as this often house two internal secondary storage drives, such as a floppy and a CD-RW. But the Inspiron 1100 offers just one fixed (that is, not swappable) secondary drive; you'll have to choose from CD, DVD, CD-RW, and DVD/CD-RW drives when you order. In the growing trend toward kissing floppies good-bye, Dell offers an external USB floppy drive only (for $49). The Inspiron 1100's extra pounds lie in its huge 14.8V, 6,450mAh battery. As CNET Labs' battery tests show, the cell keeps this system running for four hours, despite its power-draining, desktop Celeron processor. But we're not wild about the loud fan that's needed to cool down this hot processor.
The Inspiron 1100's ample case allows room for a wide and firm keyboard, a spacious touchpad, and two big mouse buttons. There's also plenty of space for ports and slots, although the budget-minded Inspiron 1100 includes just the bare minimum. A 56K modem port sits on the right edge, and Ethernet, VGA, S-Video-out, and two USB 2.0 ports are spread out across the back edge. The left edge offers headphone and microphone ports, plus one Type II PC Card slot. The front edge features two speakers that a produce more vibrant sound than that of most mainstream notebooks.
Features of Dell Inspiron 1100
The Inspiron 1100's base configuration gives average users just about everything they need for work or play, including a 2GHz desktop Celeron processor; 256MB of fast 266MHz DDR SDRAM; a 14.1-inch screen with a native 1,024x768 (XGA) resolution; a CD drive; and a 20GB, 4,200rpm hard drive. For various prices, you can choose higher-end specs such as a 2.4GHz desktop Pentium 4 CPU; up to 1GB of memory; a DVD, CD-RW, or DVD/CD-RW combo drive; a 40GB, 5,400rpm hard drive; and a 15-inch XGA display. All configurations come with the same graphics chip: a 64BM Intel 845G. Our evaluation system shipped with a 2GHz Celeron processor, 256MB of RAM, a 30GB hard drive, a DVD drive, and a 14.1-inch screen.
The big battery is easy to unlatch and replace.
The Inspiron 1100's new design is an eye-catcher.
While we applaud this overall spec selection, we can't overlook one conspicuous absence: internal wireless networking (Wi-Fi). Most of Dell's new Inspirons, such as the 5100, include two dual-band, 802.11a/b antennae and mini-PCI Wi-Fi cards. However, the Inspiron 1100 lacks both the antennae and the mini-PCI cards. The only way to get Wi-Fi is to add it via a Type II PC Card--and use up your only available card slot. This setup means one more removable part to worry about and gives you only half the signal strength from the PC Card's single antenna.
Bundled software is understandably limited in this value-conscious system. The Inspiron 1100 ships with one of two operating system choices: Windows XP Home or Windows XP Pro. The system comes standard with the WordPerfect Productivity Pack and Intuit's Quicken 2002 New User Edition, but you can order it with more full-featured office suites, such as Microsoft Works or Microsoft Office XP--for extra cash, of course. The software bundle includes Dell's Jukebox, MovieStudio, and PictureStudio apps for editing music, movies, and images.
Performance of Dell Inspiron 1100
The Inspiron 1100 was the fastest system in our small test group, beating its nearest competitor, the HP Pavilion ze4200, by one point. The Dell also handily beat another Celeron-based notebook, the Gateway 400E. While the Inspiron 1100's first-place rank is impressive, and it will excel in most tasks you throw at it, we had hoped that it would show even more speed. The victory margin between the Dell and the HP might have been wider because the HP uses an ATI graphics chip that borrows video RAM from main memory. The Dell's graphics chip is independent.
Mobile application performance (Longer bars indicate better performance)
BAPCo MobileMark2002 performance rating
Dell Inspiron 1100
103
HP Pavilion ze4200
102
Gateway 400E
89
Find out more about how we test notebooks.
System configurations:
Dell Inspiron 1100
Windows XP Home; 2GHz Intel Celeron; 256MB SDRAM 133MHz; Intel 82845G Graphics Controller 64MB; IBM Travelstar 30GN 30GB 4,200rpm
Gateway 400E
Windows XP Home; 2GHz Intel Celeron; 248MB SDRAM 133MHz; Intel 82852 Graphics Controller 64MB (8MB shared); IBM Travelstar 40GN 40GB 4,200rpm
HP Pavilion ze4200
Windows XP Home; 2GHz Intel Celeron; 224MB SDRAM 133MHz; ATI Radeon IGP 340M 32MB (shared); Fujitsu MHS2030AT 30GB 4,200rpm
Battery life of Dell Inspiron 1100
With its powerful 14.8V, 6,450mAh battery, the Inspiron 1100 had little trouble clobbering the competition in battery life. The Inspiron 1100's four-hour score is the longest battery life we've seen in a Celeron-based system, and it even bested a couple of Pentium M systems--the new battery-life champs. With the Dell Inspiron 1100, you'll be able to work unplugged without eyeing the power meter every 15 minutes.
BAPCo MobileMark2002 battery life (in minutes)
Dell Inspiron 1100
240
HP Pavilion ze4200
165
Gateway 400E
148
You can't mistake the Inspiron 1100's lineage: it sports the same "Venice blue and moonlight silver" case as all new Inspirons, including the 600m and the 8600. In fact, the Inspiron 1100 shares its case design with the more expensive Inspiron 5100, which carries more cutting-edge components than the 1100.
With a 14.1-inch screen, the Inspiron 1100's case measures 12.9 by 10.8 by 1.7 inches and weighs 7.4 pounds, average for a mainstream notebook. There's also an optional 15-inch display that jacks up size and weight slightly. You won't want to travel a lot with either one, but taking them on occasional jaunts won't do you in, either.
The keyboard is wide and firm.
The Inspiron 1100's touchpad and mouse buttons are big and smooth.
Large cases such as this often house two internal secondary storage drives, such as a floppy and a CD-RW. But the Inspiron 1100 offers just one fixed (that is, not swappable) secondary drive; you'll have to choose from CD, DVD, CD-RW, and DVD/CD-RW drives when you order. In the growing trend toward kissing floppies good-bye, Dell offers an external USB floppy drive only (for $49). The Inspiron 1100's extra pounds lie in its huge 14.8V, 6,450mAh battery. As CNET Labs' battery tests show, the cell keeps this system running for four hours, despite its power-draining, desktop Celeron processor. But we're not wild about the loud fan that's needed to cool down this hot processor.
The Inspiron 1100's ample case allows room for a wide and firm keyboard, a spacious touchpad, and two big mouse buttons. There's also plenty of space for ports and slots, although the budget-minded Inspiron 1100 includes just the bare minimum. A 56K modem port sits on the right edge, and Ethernet, VGA, S-Video-out, and two USB 2.0 ports are spread out across the back edge. The left edge offers headphone and microphone ports, plus one Type II PC Card slot. The front edge features two speakers that a produce more vibrant sound than that of most mainstream notebooks.
Features of Dell Inspiron 1100
The Inspiron 1100's base configuration gives average users just about everything they need for work or play, including a 2GHz desktop Celeron processor; 256MB of fast 266MHz DDR SDRAM; a 14.1-inch screen with a native 1,024x768 (XGA) resolution; a CD drive; and a 20GB, 4,200rpm hard drive. For various prices, you can choose higher-end specs such as a 2.4GHz desktop Pentium 4 CPU; up to 1GB of memory; a DVD, CD-RW, or DVD/CD-RW combo drive; a 40GB, 5,400rpm hard drive; and a 15-inch XGA display. All configurations come with the same graphics chip: a 64BM Intel 845G. Our evaluation system shipped with a 2GHz Celeron processor, 256MB of RAM, a 30GB hard drive, a DVD drive, and a 14.1-inch screen.
The big battery is easy to unlatch and replace.
The Inspiron 1100's new design is an eye-catcher.
While we applaud this overall spec selection, we can't overlook one conspicuous absence: internal wireless networking (Wi-Fi). Most of Dell's new Inspirons, such as the 5100, include two dual-band, 802.11a/b antennae and mini-PCI Wi-Fi cards. However, the Inspiron 1100 lacks both the antennae and the mini-PCI cards. The only way to get Wi-Fi is to add it via a Type II PC Card--and use up your only available card slot. This setup means one more removable part to worry about and gives you only half the signal strength from the PC Card's single antenna.
Bundled software is understandably limited in this value-conscious system. The Inspiron 1100 ships with one of two operating system choices: Windows XP Home or Windows XP Pro. The system comes standard with the WordPerfect Productivity Pack and Intuit's Quicken 2002 New User Edition, but you can order it with more full-featured office suites, such as Microsoft Works or Microsoft Office XP--for extra cash, of course. The software bundle includes Dell's Jukebox, MovieStudio, and PictureStudio apps for editing music, movies, and images.
Performance of Dell Inspiron 1100
The Inspiron 1100 was the fastest system in our small test group, beating its nearest competitor, the HP Pavilion ze4200, by one point. The Dell also handily beat another Celeron-based notebook, the Gateway 400E. While the Inspiron 1100's first-place rank is impressive, and it will excel in most tasks you throw at it, we had hoped that it would show even more speed. The victory margin between the Dell and the HP might have been wider because the HP uses an ATI graphics chip that borrows video RAM from main memory. The Dell's graphics chip is independent.
Mobile application performance (Longer bars indicate better performance)
BAPCo MobileMark2002 performance rating
Dell Inspiron 1100
103
HP Pavilion ze4200
102
Gateway 400E
89
Find out more about how we test notebooks.
System configurations:
Dell Inspiron 1100
Windows XP Home; 2GHz Intel Celeron; 256MB SDRAM 133MHz; Intel 82845G Graphics Controller 64MB; IBM Travelstar 30GN 30GB 4,200rpm
Gateway 400E
Windows XP Home; 2GHz Intel Celeron; 248MB SDRAM 133MHz; Intel 82852 Graphics Controller 64MB (8MB shared); IBM Travelstar 40GN 40GB 4,200rpm
HP Pavilion ze4200
Windows XP Home; 2GHz Intel Celeron; 224MB SDRAM 133MHz; ATI Radeon IGP 340M 32MB (shared); Fujitsu MHS2030AT 30GB 4,200rpm
Battery life of Dell Inspiron 1100
With its powerful 14.8V, 6,450mAh battery, the Inspiron 1100 had little trouble clobbering the competition in battery life. The Inspiron 1100's four-hour score is the longest battery life we've seen in a Celeron-based system, and it even bested a couple of Pentium M systems--the new battery-life champs. With the Dell Inspiron 1100, you'll be able to work unplugged without eyeing the power meter every 15 minutes.
BAPCo MobileMark2002 battery life (in minutes)
Dell Inspiron 1100
240
HP Pavilion ze4200
165
Gateway 400E
148
