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Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2

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Pros
Nice, high-resolution screen
Cons
Pricey; offers poor battery life

Performance: Superior: 91
Features: Superior: 91
Design: Very Good: 80

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	605
Adobe Photoshop	322
Adobe Premiere	453
Ahead Nero	605
Battery Life (Office Applications)	2:18
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	267
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	293
Microsoft Office XP	542
Mozilla	448
Musicmatch Jukebox	517
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	406
Windows Media Encoder	410
WinZip	369
World Bench 5 Score	93
World Bench 5 Word Score	Superior

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	717

Performance
WorldBench 5: Performance word scores reflect comparisons of notebooks in the same category running the same operating system. See Guide to the Top-Rated Products for more details.	Superior: 93 (Windows XP Media Center Edition)
CPU	2.13-GHz Pentium M 770
Screen size	17.0-inch wide screen
System memory	1024MB of DDR2-400 SDRAM
Hard drive	100GB
Graphics	256MB DDR SDRAM nVidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
Pointing device	Touchpad
Multipurpose bay	No
Optical drive	DVD?RW drive
Floppy drive	No
Ports	USB 2.0, FireWire, microphone and headphone jacks, S-Video, one PC Card slot
Communications	V.92 modem, gigabit ethernet, 802.11a/g
Included software	Sonic MyDVD 5.3 LE, Sonic RecordNow 7.3 LE
Other features	SD Card slot
Overall design	Very Good
Battery life (hours:minutes)	2:18
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	11.3/8.7
Support policy	One-year parts and labor warranty; 24-hour daily toll-call support

What You Should Know about the Inspiron XPS Gen 2

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.