Dell Inspiron 6400 Essential

I was very excited to get my hands on this laptop and I have enjoyed using it. As usual, by buying from Dell it means I have got a very good price for a decent enough machine. The styling isn't likely to win it any awards but it doesn't look bad either. It is quite slimline and nice and light for portable use. The keyboard is a nice size, nicely layed out and contains all the ports (such as 4 USBs and a firewire) you should need. The media direct button is an extra little feature enabling you to manage all your media with ease, without even having to boot up windows. However, I have encountered a few problems with it, ranging from a hard drive with errors on ...  Read the complete review

I must say, I was skeptical about Dell before purchasing my Inspiron 6400 two or so years ago. I'd heard many bad things, and from what I'd read Dell was seen as being in league with the devil (or perhaps CEO Michael Dell IS the devil, who knows?). However, having recently moved on to a more powerful, modern laptop I now feel I am in a fair positon to say that this reputation is almost completely unfounded. My 6400 was never the most powerful thing, with a very basic graphics card, only 1Gb of RAM and generally average specs -- it couldn't handle most modern games too well for example. Despite this, it was generally very reliable. For word processing, ...  Read the complete review

Dell Inspiron 6400 is best suited for people who use a laptop for say Study purposes, for Presentations, for Development and yes of course for playing games. The major essential factor in purchasing a Laptop is its Processor and the Cache associated with it. Inspiron6400 has 2MB L2Cache. This cache makes it possible for the machine to provide with tremendous speed even if you have a low Ghz processor associated with it. Apart from the other features what you get from other Branded Laptops all i would like to say is Dell get the best configurable deal to you as you can customize almost everything in a Dell Laptop. Also i would suggest when you purchase a ...  Read the complete review

This laptop is a great budget laptop. Its ideal for beinners and students, the large full size keyboard makes it easy to type long essays and edit text documents. The 15.4" widescreen is perfect for viewing movies andlong videos. The laptop has 1GB of RAM making it easy to run multiple applications. It comes preinstalled with windows vista home edition, and also with a basic office package called microsoft works. The hardrive has a reasonable capacity of 60 GB which is more than enough to store all your documents, music and movies. Although heavy users may run out of storage, but the hard drive can be increased. It has several media buttons ...  Read the complete review