Dell Inspiron 630m Review

Pocket-lint reviews the new Inspiron 630m, a small entry-level notebook with a 14.1 inch widescreen display.

At the heart of the machine is an Intel Pentium M 750 processor, which runs at 1.86GHz. While this isn’t the fastest chip in the range it’s more than fast enough for most tasks and coupled with 512MB of DDR2 SDRAM, we found it handled editing video and transferring it to DVD comfortably. To help things along, there’s a built-in DVD rewriter. While it’s not dual-layer it is dual-format, so you don’t need to worry which media to use. The drive will come in handy as the 60GB hard drive may well quickly grow full if your using the notebook for storing video and music files.

It’s not just at home you’ll find this machine of use, as we managed to get close to 5 hours of battery life from it, which is certainly surprising for a budget notebook.

In the end the machine earns itself a nine out of ten from the reviewer. The small screen and hard drive complaints they have don’t bother me one bit, as this machine has nearly everything I would need except for a dedicated video card.

Related Posts: