Dell’s PCs largely use Intel chips, but the company is once
again warming to AMD processors for its new Inspiron laptops and desktops.
The Inspiron 5000 laptops with 14-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch
screens contain AMD’s new A-series chips, code-named Carrizo. The laptops are
now shipping worldwide even though the chips aren’t due to be announced until
Wednesday.
The desktop-replacement laptops start at $449.99 for the
15-inch model, $599.99 for the 14-inch model, and $699.99 inch for the 17-inch
model.
Dell once used AMD chips in a range of laptops, but slowly
dropped them from product lines as the chip-maker dealt with quality and
production problems. Hewlett-Packard has stayed loyal to AMD, but many other PC
makers have dropped AMD’s chips over the years for not standing up to Intel’s
chips in performance.
This is a good start for AMD’s Carrizo chips, which offers
up to twice the battery life when playing video as the previous A-series chips,
codenamed Kaveri. They also deliver up to 65 percent better graphics
performance, but only nominal improvements in CPU performance.
During a short hands on, the Inspiron 15 5000 with a 15-inch
screen booted in under 10 seconds, and the graphics shined during video
playback. AMD will bring a new level of graphics to Dell’s mainstream laptops,
most of which have Intel’s high-definition graphics, which are not as good. The
PC had a quad-core A10-8700P CPU running at 1.8GHz with six integrated graphics
cores.
The laptop included USB 3.0 and HDMI ports. A full sized
keyboard with separate numeric keys made typing easy. With its optical drive,
though, the laptop felt heavy.
The unit tested didn’t have a touchscreen, but higher
resolution and touch screens are available on the Inspiron 5000 laptops.
The 14-inch and 15-inch models will also be available with
Intel Celeron and Pentium chips code-named Braswell next month. Dell didn’t say
if Core chips would be offered as an option on the laptops.
Dell showed other interesting PCs at Computex. If you want a
15.6-inch mainstream laptop that can also be a tablet, consider Dell’s Inspiron
15 7000 (pictured at top). It has a screen that folds 360 degrees to put the PC
in tablet mode, much like Lenovo’s Yoga. Dell says the laptop offers nine hours
of battery life with an Intel processor. It will ship in the U.S. later this
month with prices starting at $529.99
Dell is also using AMD chips in the 23.8-inch Inspiron 24
3000 and 19.5-ich Inspiron 20 3000 all-in-one desktops. The PCs have
high-definition displays with USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and ethernet ports. The Inspiron
24 3000 starts at $429.99 and is shipping in the U.S. and China, while the
Inspiron 20 3000 will ship later this year starting at $329.99
Source From:- http://www.pcworld.com/
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