The Dell Inspiron 9200 is the first 17" widescreen notebook PC offered by the world's leading manufacturer of desktop and notebook PC's, and its clearly designed to get the attention of multimedia and entertainment enthusiasts. Like most Dell products, the Dell Inspiron 500M Battery offers lots of options to suit any pocketbook, but even the base model makes for a pretty powerful notebook.The latest model, the Inspiron 9200, is a multimedia powerhouse. It has the fastest Pentium M 765 processor currently available, a gorgeous 17-inch screen, and the longest-lasting battery we've seen in a desktop replacement—all for a very good price. On top of that,Dell Inspiron 1526 Battery customers will be thrilled to know that Dell has included a multiformat DVD±RW drive instead of one that can handle only DVD+RW.Dell packs a lot of features and options in the Inspiron 9200 - making it a very verstile desktop replacement notebook.With a (2 GHz)Intel Pentium M processor, 1 GB DDR SDRAM and a 128M ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics chip - this Dell Inspiron 1720 Battery can handle just about everything. Gamers take note.This Dell notebook computer has all the standard connections, ports, drives and slots you will need to replace your desktop PC. These include - four USB 2.0 ports, a multiformat double/layer DVD drive, and a Secure Digital card slot. The only Dell Inspiron 9100 Battery missing is a TV tuner.Display is handled with a 17 TFT active matrix wide-aspect screen that gives a very clear, crisp picture. Get the WXGA+ screen instead of the UXGA!The Inspiron 9200 is an aircraft carrier laptop that costs quite a bit less than, as far as I can see, every other product with equal specifications. It's 394 by 288 by 41.5mm in size when closed (15.5 by 11.3 by 1.6 inches), and it weighs about 3.6 kilograms (eight pounds) with its standard six-cell battery - a bit more with the higher capacity nine-cell unit.The Dell Inspiron 9200 Battery is 1.6 inches thick, 15.5 inches wide, and 11.3 inches deep. The weight is just under 8 lbs, pretty reasonalbe for a laptop with a 17" display. The laptop is silver with glossy white trim (oficially, its Arctic Silver with Alpine White trim). The construction feels solid, but not extravagent, giving the impression that getting fair value for your money.
The touchpad is better than most others I've used. While its located below the space bar, its far enough away that I don't often tap it with my thumb accidentally while typing. The touchpad also has horizontal and vertical scroll bars, easing the transition from a mouse to the touch pad. The scroll bars work just like the wheel on a mouse, gliding your finger up and down or Dell Inspiron B120 Battery across a scroll bar moves a page up/down or left/right without moving the mouse pointer. I still find simulating "drag and drop" on a touch pad to be "touch and go", Dell Vostro 1510 Battery double tapping on a item is supposed to be like holding the left mouse button down on an item so I can drag it somewhere.The Inspiron 9200's performance, overall, was very good, thanks to the processor. Most notable, however, was its BatteryMark score, lasting 4:59 (hrs:min). This is practically unheard of in this class of system, where 2 to 3 hours is the norm.The front of the laptop also has the grilles for two speakers; there's what's laughingly described as a "subwoofer" on the underside. The Dell Latitude C610 Battery can't be accidentally muffled by your hands while you type, and the 9200 actually sounds surprisingly good. For a laptop. There's no low bass at all, of course, and pretty much any boom box beats Dell Latitude C840 Battery, but given that this isn't some three-inch-thick ten kilo behemoth, I really couldn't ask for more in the sound department. You want high fidelity, plug in headphones.
That's what the 9200 has for everything, but the buttons on the front make volume control easy - unless the Dell Latitude D505 Battery's flogging hard, in which case these "soft controls" queue up whatever you're saying until their low-priority task finally gets to run, whereupon everything happens at once.Now, this 9200 hasn't got many miles on it yet; it may yet fall apart or catch fire and leave my sister and/or me in the grip of Dell phone support.