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New Dell Specs and Photos Leaked?

by Terrence O'Brien on April 1, 2008 at 05:31 AM

New Dell Specs and Photos Leaked?
Engadget has tracked down some supposed photos and specs of the upcoming Dell Inspiron Laptop refresh.

The specs are impressive, but nothing surprising. Everything is moving to the new Santa Rosa update of the Centrino platform from Intel. The 1720 and 1721 are Intel and AMD powered 17 inch laptops respectively. Similarly the 1520 and 1521 are 15 inch machines, again the '1' at the end signifying an AMD CPU. Both the 15 and 17 series can be similarly configured, up to a 2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo T7500, 256 Megabyte GeForce 8600M Nvidia graphics card, Blu-ray disc drive,and 802.11n Wi-Fi for greatly increased speed. The 17 series can also be equipped with dual hard drives in a RAID array for faster performance or data redundancy.

There is also a new 14 incher, the 1420, an Intel only affair that weighs in at 5.5 pounds.

All three laptops will supposedly have a hybrid hard drive option, that will speed performance and save battery life by using a large cache of flash memory to store data that is in use. This means the hard drive will have to spin less often, and keeping the hard drive spinning is one of the top power consumers in a laptop.

From Engadget

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