Dell’s new notebook also includes what the company is calling its most powerful notebook graphics solution ever, the Nvidia GeForceFX Go5650 graphics accelerator.
The Inspiron 8600 includes hard drive storage options up to 80-Gbytes, DDR-333 RAM options from 512 Mbytes to 3 Gbytes; two USB and a single IEEE 1394 port, and either a rewritable CD/DVD-ROM or DVD+RW drive.
The new notebook comes with Microsoft’s Windows® XP Home Edition operating system, the WordPerfect Productivity Pack, Dell Juke Box, Dell Picture Studio, and the RealOne Player for watching streaming video. Six months of America Online or Earthlink membership (new members only) is also included. The notebook ships with Dell’s SecurityCenter, a collection of applications included with purchase designed to provide customers access to anti-virus, firewall and privacy protection.
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Benifits of Inspiron 8600
Intel Pentium 4-M processors up to 2.5Ghz
15.4’’ 16:10 aspect displays for increased workspace
nVidia Mobile Geforce 4200 Go video chipset with 64MB of video memory
Integrated USB 2.0 and IEEE-1394 for high-speed data transfers
Integrated Gigabyte LAN controller for 10/100/1000 network connections
Up to 60GB of hard drive space with the ability to add an additional 40GB of storage using the media bay
The Inspiron 8600 utilizes the Intel Mobile Pentium 4-M processor. This processor is manufactured on a 0.13 micron, the same as the previous Pentium III-M (Tualatin) processors. This shrinking of the die not only allows for improvement in processor speeds, it also runs cooler and uses less power.
Features of the Pentium 4-M processor include:
Hyper-pipelined technology
Rapid execution engine
Execution trace cache
Advanced transfer cache
Advanced dynamic execution
Enhanced floating point/multimedia
Streaming SIMD extensions