Dell Studio 1749 - this is a laptop with a very productive configuration, it is suitable for both multimedia and gamers. This model has completely and completely replaced the desktop PC. Also, the laptop has an attractive design, and this is usually the first thing that catches your eye, and the next are the parameters, so let's consider them:
Display: 17.3 "inches;
Processor: Intel Core i5-430M (2.26 GHz);
RAM: RAM 4 GB;
Chipset: Intel HM55;
Video card: ATI Radeon HD5650 with 1 GB video memory;
Winchester: 500 GB;
Communications: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Equipment.
The kit includes a laptop, a battery, documentation, a disk with drivers and proprietary software, it is worth noting that the laptop comes preinstalled with the Windows 7 Home Basic operating system, so the user does not have to spend time installing the operating system, only the software that is needed.
Design and construction features.
Outwardly, this model does not differ much from the usual Dell Studio design, but it still has a number of differences. In the front part there are metal inserts, below which are located the JBL speakers. These speakers have a clear and rather loud sound, they use the 2.1 system, that is, there is still a subwoofer on the bottom that reproduces low frequencies, in the picture below you can see the hole through which the sound is heard:
The laptop chipset uses six-channel audio, when connected to a digital receiver via HDMI, audio will be transmitted with a sampling frequency of 192 kHz, maximum 24-bit.
The working panel is made of durable plastic, gray, but the lid is rubberized and painted in dark blue. The computer is large in size. The laptop weighs 3.2 kilograms, including the battery, and the thickness is 3.9 centimeters, but the computer is designed to be used mostly stationary.
The display is a very important element. This model is equipped with a 17.3-inch widescreen matrix from Samsung, with a resolution of 1600x900 pixels. The display is covered with gloss, but at the same time does not reflect any glare, it has good brightness, thanks to the LED backlight, the color rendition is excellent.
A 2-megapixel camera is installed at the top above the display, next to which there is a microphone, which is convenient when using video calls.
Above the keyboard is a special block of touch buttons for controlling the multimedia player.
A laptop with such dimensions simply cannot but have a full-fledged keyboard, plus a block of numeric buttons. The keys are already familiar to us, comfortable, slightly concave shape.
The touchpad is matte, it is convenient to work with it, the control buttons are pressed smoothly.
Cooling.
After reading the parameters of the laptop, many are immediately interested in how the cooling system copes with this. The cooling system outlet is located on the rear edge of the case:
during operation, the heating of the case is felt only when performing resource-intensive tasks, but with such a configuration you cannot get away from it, especially since there is no particular discomfort during work. The good news is that the laptop is very quiet.
Autonomy of work.
I was a little surprised that with such a configuration the laptop shows a very good result during autonomous operation, the standard battery lasted a little less than 3 hours.
Performance.
The laptop is equipped with a modern Intel Core i5-430M processor running at 2.26 GHz. It supports Hyper-Threading technology, which increases the speed of work with multi-threaded applications, and the most important advantage of this type of processor is that it can dynamically change the frequency depending on the load. If the processor works to its maximum potential, then its frequency will increase to 2.53 GHz.The laptop has 4 GB of memory and a 500 GB hard drive.
We can say that the trump card of this model is a powerful discrete graphics card ATI Radeon HD5650, which allows not only watching videos in the highest quality, but also playing 3D games with high resource requirements without any problems. When testing performance on the Windows 7 operating system, we got the following results:
As you can see, this is a really very high level of performance.
Other possibilities.
The DVD SuperMulti optical drive is installed on the right. A little further away is the charger connector; this side also has two USB 2.0 ports, FireWire and a card reader for MMC, MS, xD, SD and PRO memory cards.
On the left we see the standard VGA video output, HDMI digital output, there is also a DisplayPort interface, which is quite rare on laptops, on the same side there is eSATA / USB (combined), an ExpressCard slot, audio outputs, and there are two headphone outputs, a Kensington lock and a connector for network adapter (gigabit).
Of the wireless communications, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are used.
Output.
Dell Studio 1749 is the perfect solution for users who have given up on personal computers, but do not want to give up high performance. The laptop demonstrates very high performance, long battery life, almost silent, has an attractive design, high functionality, in general there are a lot of advantages, they can be listed for a long time, from the minuses they have not yet noticed anything that could really change the opinion about this device.
