Intel’s new Core i7 has finally reached the laptop world. Dell studio 1557 comes with Intel’s Core i7, thus giving more performance at less power consumption. It has a great performance in multi tasking at high speed and digital media creation.
Providing quad core experience in the notebooks and that too at a price less than a thousand pound, it is the dell studio 1557. In comparison to the previous dell notebook i-e studio 1555 in performance, which was a core 2 due processor notebook, dell has now jumped into the Quad core arena providing the Core i7-720QM. A 1.6 GHz processor with hyper threading technology is enough for fast multitasking jobs. Dell studio 1557 is integrated with the DDR3 memory support having FSB of 1333; it comes with a 4GB extendable to 8GB according the requirement. With the Hard disk of 320 GB the dell studio 1557 comes with a pre installed 64 bit Microsoft Windows 7 thus providing with the full utilization of all the cores.
The display of dell studio 1557 is 15.6 inch and is having a HD resolution of 1366×768, and an aspect ratio of 16:9, it’s a latest trend according to the resolution is very power efficient due to the use of LED Technology. However the viewing angle stability of the dell studio 1557 laptop is at average level due to which one has to deal with the color problem is he is looking at the display from an angle.
Dell studio provides various options for connectivity, Apart from the two normal USB ports the model comes with an eSATA port too. For those having a cam coder there is good news that dell studio 1557 has a Firewire which makes it easy to connect a ca coder to the laptop. Along with these features, there are all other ports like Ethernet and sound port etc like the previous models.
Dell studio 1557 also has the dell movie studio software that is available in almost all the new models and is a good player for playing and customizing the video experience.
Summarizing the details, dell studio 1557 notebook has a great CPU performance, an HD display, but is a bit noisy and gets a bit hot while use despite running fan. Overall a good choice.