Dell Inspiron 7000 c400LT review

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The Dell Inspiron 7000 c400LT isn't the cheapest of notebooks, coming in at £1,399 (£1,644).

But it is very well featured for a budget machine. As well as a 400MHz mobile Celeron, 64Mb RAM, and a 4.8Gb hard disk, you get a modem. Its most striking feature is a 15in TFT screen, the largest we've ever seen on a notebook.

The most obvious measures of a notebook's portability are its size and weight. These machines fall into two camps - those which go all-out to be as small as possible, with floppy and CD-ROM drive as external units, or the all-in-one machines which aim to replace the desktop PC, and therefore tend to be a bit heavier. The Dell falls fairly heavily into the latter group, weighing in at 4.1kg. However, it's worth noting that the Dell was also exceptionally well built, so should last well on the road.

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Given its comfortable dimensions, we expected the Dell to score well in the ergonomics department, and it didn't disappoint. It has one of the best keyboards we've ever encountered on a notebook. It's perfectly spaced and has a comfortable and responsive action. All additional keys, such as Page Up and Page Down, are easy to find, and Dell has avoided the temptation to shrink the Return and Backspace keys to save space. Also, the keys stand slightly proud of the wrist rest, which makes the space bar particularly easy to strike.

Easily on a par with the keyboard is the touch pad, which is smooth and precise to use. What's more, when you take your finger off the pad, the pointer doesn't fly off randomly.

But the Inspiron's crowning glory has to be its screen. It's a 15in TFT flat panel that's brilliantly clear, crisp, sharp and evenly lit across its whole area. What's more, it's capable of running at a resolution of 1024x768.

Sound has never been a strong point of the mobile computer, but Dell give it a go, with speakers that certainly beat the ultra-portables when it comes to playing music. Ultimately, if you're serious about sound you'll use headphones.

The big, bruising Dell proved to be the quickest notebook we've tested - thanks chiefly to its 400MHz Celeron chip. Back in the July issue, we tested an Evesham Micros Voyager 5000, also based on a 400MHz Celeron. The Inspiron is the first machine we've seen, however, with a proper 'mobile' version of Intel's processor (Evesham used a desktop Socket 370 processor). Consequently, the Dell has vastly better battery life, and doesn't threaten to cook your loins.

Dell's success is not purely down to the processor, though. It's boosted by the 64Mb RAM, and particularly by its fast Rage Pro graphics. Indeed, in our CorelDRAW test, this ATI chipset proved to impart near-desktop performance.

Rating this notebook proved a pretty straightforward job. The Inspiron 7000 is the fastest notebook we've ever seen, and has the biggest screen we've ever encountered. Dell backs these strengths up with quite the best laptop keyboard we've come across, plus impressively long battery life. Add to this a 56K Psion Dacom Gold Card modem and a copy of Microsoft Works 99, and you'd expect a price that topped the national debt of Argentina. At just £1,399 it's a bargain.

If you're looking for a notebook that can handle everything you'd normally throw at a desktop, and aren't put off by above-average weight, the Dell Inspiron 700 is perfect.