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About Dell Computers

Dell Computers are one of the leading brands for laptops and desktop computers online. Dell offers a wide range of computer products, catering for all home, gaming and business needs.

Dell was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, the computer industry's longest-tenured chief executive officer, on a simple concept: that by selling computer systems directly to customers, Dell could best understand their needs and efficiently provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs.

This direct business model eliminates retailers that add unnecessary time and cost, or can diminish Dell's understanding of customer expectations. The direct model allows the company to build every system to order and offer customers powerful, richly-configured computer systems at competitive prices.

Dell Computers also introduces the latest relevant technology much more quickly than companies with slow-moving, indirect distribution channels, turning over inventory every four days on average. The Dell Effect For more than 20 years, Dell has revolutionized the industry to make computing accessible to customers around the globe, including businesses, institutional organizations and individual consumers.

Because of Dell's direct model and the industry's response to it—information technology is more powerful, easier to use and more affordable, giving customers the opportunity to take advantage of powerful new tools to improve their businesses and personal lives with Dell computers. Nearly one out of every five standards-based computer system sold in the world today is a Dell.

Some of the computer products and services that Dell offer are: Workstations Dell Precision desktop and mobile workstations are intended for professional users who demand exceptional performance to run sophisticated applications, such as three-dimensional computer-aided design, digital content creation, geographic information systems, computer animation, software development and financial analysis.

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Dell offers a range of delivery options. These are Ground, Second day or next day.

Ground or "Economy" - Scheduled delivery of your order will be up to three to five (3-5) business days from the time it leaves the warehouse.
Second Day - Scheduled delivery of your order will be up to two (2) business days from the time the warehouse tenders the shipment to our transportation provider.
Next Day - Scheduled delivery of your order will be one (1) business day from the time our warehouse tenders the shipment to our transportation provider. + More Information

Dell Payment Methods

Dell has a variety of payment options to make it as easy as possible for customers. Dell accepts American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Prepaid Check and more. Dell offers a buy now and pay later on selected items. You pay 10% deposit then pay nothing for 3 months through Dell financial services. + More Information

Dell Warranty

Dell offers a 90 day collect and return service. But at an extra cost you have the option to have 1-4 years on-site warranty service which includes online Multimedia training. Every Dell purchase comes backed by our 21-day Total Satisfaction policy. When you buy Dell, expert technical support is just a click or a call away - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year - they are trained to help you resolve the majority of possible issues without having to ship your system or wait for an on site service technician.+ More Information

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Dell's first desktops to carry the Inspiron name look good, inside and out. With a huge range of available components and two equally attractive cases, mainstream consumers ought to be able to find a config that meets their budget, tastes, and computing needs. If you require Bluetooth or Blu-ray, however, you'll have to put your purchase plans on hold.

Dell has dropped its venerable Dimension desktop brand. Now, both its mainstream consumer desktops and laptops will carry the Inspiron name. Along with the name change, Dell's new Inspiron 530 and 530s PCs usher in Intel's latest G33 chipset (aka Bearlake), which features a speedy 1,333MHz frontside bus. The other two models in the lineup, the Inspiron 531 and 531s, feature AMD processors on Nvidia's MCP 61 chipset

The 530s and 531s units feature a slim chassis akin to the Dimension C521's. Each of the four models boasts a wide array of configuration options; prices start at a rock-bottom $349 and can quickly top $1,500 when you start adding upgrades. For a complete details, read our full review of the Dell Dimension 531, which won an Editors' Choice

The big range in price is due in large part to the wide array of CPU options. The Intel-based models offer both low-end Celeron and dual-core Core 2 Duo processors, while the AMD-based models offer both low-end Sempron and dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors. Memory ranges from 512MB to 4GB. All four major flavors of Vista are offered as well; no word on whether XP is an option for those less than enthralled with Microsoft's latest OS effort.

Both the midtower and the slim chassis offer two hard drive bays (which you can populate with two 500GB drives for a 1TB of storage) and the option for a PCI Express graphics card (the half-height variety for the 530s and 531s units). Also available in all models but particularly useful in the slim models, which are likely candidates to be shoehorned into home theater racks, is an optional 802.11b/g (but sadly, not 802.11n) Wi-Fi card, which will save you from having to run an Ethernet cable through your living room. Integrated Bluetooth is another living-room-friendly technology, and Dell is bringing it to these Inspiron desktops shortly. Likewise, Dell will add Blu-ray drives as on option soon.

Aesthetically, the new Inspiron line extends the silver-and-white color scheme that you can find on late-model Dimensions. The last generation of Dimensions were sleek-looking, but the area around the optical drives was black, which was in stark contrast to the rest of the case. Now, the Inspiron cases feature drive-bay covers, lending a more unified design to the PCs.

The Inspiron line carries Dell's standard one-year parts-and-labor warranty, but the company's DataSafe backup has moved online. Dell offers you 3GB of online storage and won't charge you for the first year.

When Dell crossed the bargain pricing of its Inspiron laptops with the design sense of its XPS line, something sensational emerged—a new mainstream laptop line called Dell Studio. With the new line, Dell hopes to reel in the latest generation of back-to-schoolers, content creators, social-network addicts, and camera enthusiasts, just to name a few groups.

dell 15 bannerThe Dell Studio 15 is a stylish 15-inch laptop that represents the convergence of the Dell Inspiron 1525 and XPS M1530. Some of its highlights include spectacular performance scores, excellent configuration options, and an extensive color palette. It earns the Editors’ Choice for mainstream laptops because it offers all of these things for just $1,199 (direct, E-Value code DNDPUA1, for a limited time).

This is not the first time I’ve seen wacky colors being offered on a Dell laptop. Among the seven being offered, Flamingo Pink, Tangerine Orange, Plum Purple and Spring Green were also available with the Inspiron 1525. The Studio 15 continues the same tradition but with a slight twist. You can either choose a solid color or spruce up a model in any of the seven colors with in-mold decorations (IMD), like the designs on the HP Pavilion dv5t, patterns embedded beneath a glossy finish. Granted, it’s not as fancy as the aluminum trim found in the XPS M1530 and the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Penryn), but it’s to Dell’s credit that the Studio 15 combines two of the most commonly used design trends in laptops.
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The Studio 15’s styling is also a tribute to the XPS M1530. You might recognize the drop-down hinges, similar to the ones on the M1530 and the Lenovo IdeaPad Y510. It even has the same tapering design as the M1530, becoming thinner as you move toward the bezel. At 5.9 pounds, it’s a shade lighter than the 6.2-pound M1530, although the Apple MacBook Pro is still the undisputed 15-inch mainstream lightweight with its 5.3-pound frame. I’m surprised that Dell didn’t offer a 13-inch Studio, as it would appeal to mobile professionals. As it stands now, the Studio line consists of the 15 and the Studio 1735 17-inch widescreen. (Stay tuned for my review of the latter.)

You won’t be disappointed with the typing experience on the Studio 15, as the keyboard, mouse buttons, and touchpad are engineered to perfection. Like the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch, the 15’s widescreen is backed by LEDs and has a 1,440-by-900 resolution, which delivered a superb viewing experience. What the MacBook Pro doesn’t offer and the 15 does is an option to upgrade to a 1,920-by-1,200 (1080p) resolution screen.

A wide array of upgradable features makes the 15 shine. Embellishing its sleek look is a slot-loading DVD burner, which can be upgraded to a Blu-ray reader for $200. You can enhance the Blu-ray experience by using the included HDMI port to display the image on a larger monitor. With the proliferation of digital cameras and video content, you’ll be glad of the four-in-one card reader, the variety of hard-drive configurations (my review unit has a 250GB drive), and the 2-megapixel webcam, to help you stay in line with these trends. Mobile broadband or a cellular modem is a feature I’ve been pleading for on the MacBook Pro, the Gateway M-152XL, and the Toshiba Satellite A305-S6845. At least Dell offers it as an option on the 15.

Performance-wise, the 15 and the MacBook Pro 15-inch (Penryn) are worthy adversaries, with the slight edge going to the 15. With its 2.5-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of RAM, its SYSmark 2007 Preview Overall score of 122 topped the Apple’s by 9 percent and is the best Overall score we’ve seen so far on a mainstream laptop. The Dell also led the pack in video encoding and Photoshop CS3 tests. The Gateway M-152XL came close to matching the 15’s SYSmark results falling within a point short of its Overall score. As for 3D gaming, the 15 has a midrange ATI graphics card, which isn’t as powerful as the ones that come with the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (nVidia GeForce 8600M GT) and ASUS M50Sa-A1 (ATI Radeon HD 3600). At this price point, however, be grateful that you are getting a decent gaming card. Finally, 3 hours 20 minutes doesn’t look too impressive as a battery score, but keep in mind that this is a 53-Wh battery. You can easily get into the 5-hour range with the 9-cell upgrade ($79).

The Dell Studio 15 inherits many of the XPS 1530’s strengths and almost none of its weaknesses. What it really comes down to, however, is superb configuration options. The 15 outperforms many of its toughest competitors and has the potential to inflict even more damage when upgraded. The only competitor with a richer feature set and just as many upgradable options is the HP Pavilion dv5t, but undercutting Dell’s current price will be a monumental task for HP.

If you’ve followed the tech sector for any appreciable amount of time, you’ve no doubt heard the tale of Dell Inc. - one of those stories where a guy with a dream founded a company and eventually built it into a corporate giant. Right from the beginning, Michael Dell believed that the future of PC sales involve building and selling customized IBM PC-compatible computers directly to home users. The first computer of their own design, labeled the “Turbo PC” helped the company gross more than 73 million dollars in its first year alone. And by the turn of the century, Dell would become the largest seller of personal computers, with sales reported to be close to $25 billion dollars.

All good things must come to an end, as they say, and the last decade brought with it a global PC sales slump, as well as increased competition from manufacturers including Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Gateway. When Dell lost its PC sales lead in 2006 following the union of Compaq with HP, Dell looked for a new avenue to increase their ownership base: gamers. Acquiring Alienware in March of that year, Dell gained some insight into leveraging their own customizable selling base with the hardware specs that more discriminating users craved. To further their efforts, Dell even partnered up with Vivendi Universal with product placement in their expansion pack F.E.A.R. Extraction Point - a move mostly unheard of heretofore.

The past couple of years we have seen Dell’s focus on gaming desktops with their XPS series sharpen, and today will see their latest offering, the more affordable XPS 630. Dubbed the “new challenger”, the 630 is the beginning of a refresh of the XPS line, with updated specs and component choices. Available in black or red, the Dell XPS 630 is a customizable machine with support for dual graphics cards and the latest processors, and if we may say so, looks that kill.

Our evaluation system came stocked with an NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT and 2GB of Samung DDR2-667 memory. Although the base unit ships with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 processor, we opted to test the XPS 630 with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 running at 2.4GHz. For added benefit, we also took Dell up on an offer to test not only some faster RAM in the form of Hynix DDR2-800 sticks, but also doubling up the number of GPUs by throwing in an extra 8800GT in SLI. The keyboard, mouse, and mousepad look capable enough for most users, although the mouse is a simple two-button scrollwheel variety. As with everything else, these two component can be exchanged for higher-end peripherals such as Razer’s Tarantula Gaming Keyboard or a Microsoft Sidewinder USB Laser Mouse, for an additional cost. The choice is yours.

Think long and hard as to why you want to buy a computer. Do you want to buy a computer to get on the Internet or do you want to run a specific software application? Do you want to buy a computer just to play games? Then you might be better off buying a game console like a Sony PlayStation 2.

It makes a lot of difference for which purpose you buy a computer, as to what hardware configuration you should look for and the price you have to pay for it.

This document is intended to help you make those choices. Hopefully you will be more prepared when you think about buying a new computer and get the right configuration for your needs.

If you have children aged 5 and up, it is almost a must to have a personal computer in your house. But even if you don't, computers and the Internet already form a big part of today's life style, and you don't want to be left out.

Computer Hardware

This question will be answered in great detail. We will look at all parts of the computer and what to look for if you go for those bargains, which might not be bargains at all.
You also want to buy a computer that lasts. If you buy a computer that is already outdated, you might run the risk that you are not able to run the latest software on it.

A computer is as fast as it slowest components. This means that you can have a fast computer, but if a component like a hard disk slows down the computer, you might have just wasted lots of money on a high speed CPU that will never be fully utilized. That's why this document also talks about some technical specifications that might be important when selecting the right machine for you.

Additional computer features

We will also talk about additional hardware, like printers, scanners, digital cameras, modems and networks.

The right additions might get you more use out of your computer for only a little bit of extra money.

Computer Software

We will also take some time to look at some software features and what's best to buy when you are just starting out.

Where to put the computer

The best spot to install your computer is the living room or family room. This way, if you have children, you can all share the computer.
It's important to chose a location that in not too humid, not in direct sunlight, away from heat vents, and away from electrical appliances that could cause interference.

Problems and Support

The time that you would probably find that there was anything wrong with a computer from a hardware point of view is in the first month that you operate your computer.

If your machine is running okay for a couple of months, it will probably be okay forever (figuratively speaking). You can buy a computer from a company like Dell, or Gateway and get technical support with it.

I have only had good experience with Gateway's technical support service as long as you keep buying everything from them (both hardware and software). As soon as you buy something through another source, they will not support it and tell you to contact that manufacturer.
The same is true with other computer manufacturers, they will not support other companies' products

Source: InfoHQ.com