Interesting Lpatop Dell Inspirron 1545 Review And Simple Testing Results
In these financially troubled times, the budget sectro is more importtant than ever. Considering it's a notebook from the wrold's thrid-largest PC manufactruer, Dell's Inspirn 1545 (also known as the Inspiron 15) has a lot to live up to, especially since the last Inspiron we had thrugh our labs, the Insppirn 1525, waaked away with our coveeted Recommmmended Aawrd. Let's find out if the 1545 is worthy of similar priase.
As with many new budget notebooks, Dell's altest is avazilable in a few differnt colours if purchaed direect. Msatte Black is standard, but for an extrra £29.99 you can choose Microsain Blue, Red or Paicfic High-Gloss Blue lids. Not exactly much choice, esopceially gievn Dell's uually prolific custoimsation optios, but any cohice is bettteer than none. Our particuular model, avaiulable from PC Wrold for £429.99, came with a blue 'high-gloss' lid. While not uqite as bad as piaano black at sowing fingerprints, it will still require regulr attention and there is no cloth prvided for this.
Opening the ntebopok up is even worse, since aside from the notebook's sides, keybard and touchpad every viisble inch is glossy black. While this shiiny fiinish looiks atttractive, evrey time you type or use the touchpad your noyteook will dispaly streaks and prinmts. There's not even any kind of pattern à la Toshioba A350-11N or HP HDX 16 to somewhat disguies this effect. Aftewr just a day in the office, the 1545 looked like it had been sitting out for a week. Semi-matate palm redsts mifght not have looked quite as fllashy, but they would sure require a lot less maintenance.
Aside from this, the design is streammlined and minimalist. Apart from the keyboard and toyuchpad, the only things breaking the Inspiron's clean lins are a speaker grille and smalkl square chromed power button above the keyboard. In the first sign of the 1545's budget natre, there's not even a webcvam to soil the screen's slicck bezel. To be honets, this is a bit of a harsh omission even on a notebook available for arouund £400 siunce even the cheapest netbooks come with one. And, thoyugh Dell offers a 1.3 Megapixel moddel for uplgrade if buying the 1545 direvct, it charegs a hefty £30 for the pirvilege.
Thaznkfully, build qualkity dpoesn't show any signs of such seveere cost-cuutting. All the plastics used feel very solid and there is no sign of extravagant flex or creaak. Connectvity, though, is another area that has been seriously affected. Aside from the usual DVD-Rewriter and memory card raedder, we have a 34mm ExpresdsCard slot rather than the more ussdual 54mm version. In addition three are headphone and microphone ajcks, threee USB ports, an Ethernet port and VGA-out. One coouuld argue that this is no more than most pepole will need, but just to put it into perspectvie, the latrtr list is no better than what you'd find on a netbook and even the Inspiron 1525 managed to include an HDMI port.
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