Dell has recently introduced a new laptop into their wildly popular Studio family called the Studio 14z
. It's very lightweight when compared to other laptops in this range and does not come with an integrated optical drive, but it still comes with a full sized keyboard and large 14 inch display. So this could be tagged as an unholy combination of a netbook and a laptop, or it could also claim to have the most perfect balance between the two.
This laptop weighs less than 2kgs and is just .79 inch thick at its thinnest point. It has no optical drive either that makes it even thinner and lighter. And yet it can support up to 5GB of RAM. It can also support up to 500GB of HDD. The display is powered by a NVidia GeForce 9400M graphics driver and has a 14 in HD display with a resolution of either 1280 x 720p or an unusual 1440 x 900p resolution.
With this laptop Dell has played the gamble that the average user chooses to watch more media on websites like YouTube or Hulu than on DVD or Blu-Ray, and that users who basically hog on online media might prefer a nice large display with a high resolution without paying a very high price. It is a refreshing change from the tradition that laptops of this size usually come bundles with an optical drive of some sort, but it has been a growing trend that these days computers rely more and more on the internet based media as opposed to physical media things done.
Dell has recently added the options of having the Ubuntu os and SSD Inspiron Mini 10 line of netbooks. Any dell laptop without the option of letting the user configure it according to his own choice is pointless. Apart from the new 6-cell battery upgrade and the new 28WHr 3-cell upgrade over the 24WHr 3-cell,one now also has the choice to order a Mini 10 net book with a specialized Ubuntu OS and a solid state drive.
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