Dell Releases Budget 15″ AMD Notebooks

Mike Howes 2 Nov, 2006 at 1:06am ET Article published in Tech

Dell has revealed its “budget” 15.4″ notebooks that are using AMD processors. The new offerings aren’t quite below the $500 entry price previously predicted and can be purchased for around $550.

The new Inspiron 1501 is available with a number of processors and up to 2GB of DDR2 memory, supported via the ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 IGP (256MB HyperMemory). HD audio support is included as is support for a SATA hard drive up to 80GB in size.

The base $549 system will get you a Sempron 3500+ processor, 512MB of memory, 60GB hard drive, CD-RW/DVD combo drive, Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g adapter, Windows XP Home and a 1-year warranty. $859 will get you a Turion 64 MK-36, 1GB of memory, 80GB hard drive, 8x DVD burner, Windows XP Home and a 2-year warranty.

Source: Daily Tech

Comments

2 Nov 2006 ~ 1:45am RWB Wow that is pretty damned good!
2 Nov 2006 ~ 10:27am Winfrey This might be the laptop I get for college. Seems like it could take notes pretty well!
3 Nov 2006 ~ 11:28am QCH I tried to configure the Inspiron 1501 with the true minimum and I can confirm that the price is $549.00....