Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 Notebook - Gaming and Performance


Systems Tested and General Performance

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Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2
  • 2.13GHz Dothan Pentium-M 770
  • Intel 915PM
  • NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra (core: 450, memory: 532)
  • Graphics Driver: 72.01
  • 2 x 512MB Hynix DDR2 PC4200
  • 8x DVD+-RW
  • 100GB Fujitsu 5400RPM Hard Drive (ATA100)
  • 17.0" WUXGA display (native 1920 x 1200)
  • Intel's 2915ABG 802.11 a/b/g WiFi card
  • Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet
  • 9 cell battery (11.1V, 7.2AH, 80WH)

 

In order to keep the list of notebook from getting exceedingly long and turning this page into a scrolling race, we are going to archive past notebook specs in a Excel file (XLS format), which will be updated with every notebook review (click here). If you have questions, please feel free to email me.

General Performance: The Winstones
"Real World" Application Performance

Business Winstone 2004 from Veritest uses scripts to tests the performance level of a computer in business related applications:

  • Microsoft Access 2002
  • Microsoft Excel 2002
  • Microsoft Frontpage 2002
  • Microsoft Outlook 2002
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
  • Microsoft Project 2002
  • Microsoft Word 2002
  • Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003
  • Winzip 8.1

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 from Veritest uses scripts to tests the performance level of a computer in multimedia rich environment:

  • Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1
  • Adobe Premiere 6.50
  • Macromedia Director MX 9.0
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1
  • Microsoft Windows Media™ Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
  • NewTek's LightWave 3D 7.5b
  • Steinberg™ WaveLab™ 4.0f

Higher scores here indicate better performance. You can read more about Business Winstone 2004 on Veritest's FAQ page. And you can read more about Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 on Veritest's FAQ page.

Our system came with the fastest CPU configuration and 1GB of DDR2 RAM, so the results fall expectedly close to the similarly configured Latitude D810. This is, after all, a high end performance notebook.


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