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Dell Inspiron 531

The Dell Inspiron 531 along with a handful of other new desktops marks the introduction of a more streamlined Dell product family. For both laptops and desktops, the Inspiron line will represent its mainstream consumer PCs, with the XPS looping together the high-end products. In other words, so long Dimension,...

Tags: Notebooks, Dell Inspiron, Inspiron 531, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2007-06-26

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Dell Inspiron 530

Since Dell has stopped selling its AMD-based Inspirons, that leaves the Intel-powered Inspiron 530 and 530s leading its budget desktop charge. The Inspiron 530 is a modest $539 configuration that offers some surprising features for the price. Hewlett-Packard competes very well in this price range too, but Dell's one...

Tags: Notebooks, Bluetooth Module, Dell Inspiron, Inspiron 530, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2008-04-18

Dell: We're committed to AMD but...

Update below: Dell is trying to quell worries about its relationship with AMD. A blog ruckus has emerged after Engadget and DailyTech and others reported that Dell pulled AMD-powered desktops and laptops from Dell.com, which represents the bulk of the PC maker's sales. Instead, Dell pushed folks...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Business Structures, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Finance, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Virtualization - Don't Forget Technical support

Virtualization - Don't Forget Technical supportApps drive hardware and stacks?Increasingly universities are deploying hardware and software stacks as specified by apps vendors- less risky than playing "finger-point". But the result, project by project, has been server sprawl...no one project stakeholder wants to risk its outcome on an IT-specified solution...

Tags: Utility computing, Storage management, Microsoft Windows, Internet Files, Forget Technical, Internet, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-01-03

Dell, Best Buy forge retail deal

Dell's latest march through the retail channel continued Thursday via a pact with Best Buy. Under the deal--the latest in a long line of Dell partnerships--Dell will sell XPS and Inspiron notebook and desktops through more than 900 Best Buy locations. With the move, Dell says...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Dell Inspiron, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-06

eMachines T5234

eMachines is merely treading water with its T-series line of fixed-configuration, budget PCs. The latest, the T5234, offers no improvement to last quarter's T5230 system. If anything, the T5234 represents a step back, using a slightly slower CPU than the model it replaces. The only upgrade to be found is...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Processors, Dell Computer Corp., eMachines T5234, eMachines Inc.

Product reviews 2007-11-01

Apple Mac Mini (2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo)

At the same time it revamped its iMac, Apple also more quietly updated its smaller-scale Mac Mini desktops, adding a faster Intel Core 2 Duo processor in place of the old Core Duo chips. The result is more or less competitive performance compared to similar Windows PCs. The problem is...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, Apple Inc., Apple Mac Mini, Intel Corp., Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Intel Core 2 Duo, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2007-08-27

Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition (overclocked Core 2 Duo E6320)

Velocity Micro made a name for itself by turning out custom-crafted, finely tuned, high-end desktops, a few of which it has slipped into Best Buy and, more recently, Circuit City. The company found success by occupying the middle ground between ludicrously expensive PCs from gaming boutiques and cookie-cutter systems from...

Tags: Processors, Desktops, Wi-Fi, Vector GX, Velocity Micro, Velocity, Vector GX Campus Edition, Intel Core 2 Duo

Product reviews 2007-08-14

Apple iMac (20-inch, 2.4GHz)

Editor's note: This review was updated to indicate that the iMac has only one FireWire 800 port.Photo gallery:Apple iMac, unboxedAs reader "dechah" wrote in response to our blog covering the announcement of Apple's new iMacs, Apple's is not the first all-in-one desktop with a glossy screen, an ultrathin keyboard, and...

Tags: Desktops, Apple iMac, Apple Inc.

Product reviews 2007-08-08

Sony VAIO TP1 Living Room PC - Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83 GHz

As Sony's products are often described, the $1,600 VAIO TP1 Living Room PC is a unique, attractive system that is underpowered and overpriced. It suffers from some unfortunate technical quirks and is more laden with shovelware than any PC we've reviewed to date. This is still a serviceable computer, and...

Tags: Desktops, Intel Core 2 Duo, PC, Sony Vaio, TP1, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2007-08-06

Dell Inspiron 531s

The new Inspiron 531S is the slimmed-down desktop we've been waiting for from Dell. By finally offering a wireless networking adapter option, Dell lets this small PC preserve the tidy profile lacking in its past attempts at the category. Our $659 config, while a decent enough performer, doesn't distance itself...

Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Inspiron 531S

Product reviews 2007-07-18

eMachines T5062

We'll make this quick. If you're considering the eMachines T5062, don't. Do yourself a favor and spend an additional $50 on the eMachines T5230. That extra bit of money buys you a lot more budget PC. The two systems are identical in outward appearance, and inside they nearly match component...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer electronics, Microsoft Windows, Processors, eMachines T5062, eMachines Inc., budget-PC, DVD burner

Product reviews 2007-07-13

eMachines T5230

The $500 eMachines T5230 sits on the top-end of eMachines' new systems for the third quarter of 2007. It's also the strongest of the company's new batch of nonconfigurable, retail-only PCs--which you might imagine given that it's the most expensive of the bunch. Our major gripes are that it doesn't...

Tags: Notebooks, DVD, Consumer electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Video cards, eMachines Inc., eMachines T5230

Product reviews 2007-07-02

Top 10 reviews of the week

CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week include the multidevice-powering Callpod Chargepod, the classic-body 2007 Jaguar XJ-Series and the sleek Dell Inspiron 531.

Tags: Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp.

Image galleries 2007-06-30