Product: Dell Inspiron 5150 Price: HK$12,798 Pros: The price is right Cons: If you want extra features to go with all that processing horsepower, be ready to spend more money
Are you in the market for a new notebook that delivers more bang for the buck? Then skip that visit to the store, log on to Dell Computer's Web site, and check out its 'fast and furious' offer.
Dell claims to have broken the three-gigahertz speed barrier in notebooks with its new Inspiron 5150, the first laptop released in the market to run Intel's 3.06GHz Mobile Pentium 4 processor.
To make sure that the Inspiron has your attention, Dell has taken an aggressive marketing strategy and slapped the machine with a sticker price that starts at HK$12,798.
Standard features in the Inspiron rival those of higher-priced notebook models that we have previously reviewed.
With its new Intel chip, this Dell notebook has low power requirements that help yield about four hours of battery life.