Dell Inspiron M501R is available in four colors: obsidian black, tomato red, peacock blue, and pink; this colorful finish with metal wiredrawing processing, it not only enhances the quality and grade of Dell M501R, but also makes the shell more resistant. Around the Inspiron M501R, there is a silver metal ring, and then with a strong metallic embedded “DELL” logo on the middle of the shell, which makes Dell Inspiron M501R more fashionable.
Dell Inspiron M501R colorful finishes
Dell M501R’s metal wiredrawing processing shell
Dell M501R screen is glossy, which not only reduced the plastic feel of the atmosphere, but also give added touch of stylish machine. Inspiron M501R features a 15.6 inches WLED backlit glossy screen with the resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels, as the screen is very glossy and if you use it outdoors or near a bright window, you’ll end up seeing a lot of reflections — primarily your own.
In addition, Dell M501R is equipped with a built-in microphone and 130-megapixel camera on the top of the screen, which allows us remote business meetings, or video chat with friends and family anytime and anywhere, it also can record the wonderful life that we usually fragment.
It can be said that this new preposing shaft is one of Dell’s unique design, this shaft is similar to the traditional turn-screen design, and also has a advantage that it does not affect ports on the rear side of Dell Inspiron M501R. When we open and close the screen to a certain point, the screen did not appear shaking phenomenon. In addition, Dell M501R maximum angle of opening and closing is about 130 degrees.
Inspiron M501R comes with a common full-size keyboard, and also has a small keypad that provide convenience to users who play games, while the silver metal ring around the keyboard edges enhances Inspiron M501R’s grade. And this keyboard is also very large with reasonable key space and key cap, so it is very good to type. In addition, this keyboard design can effectively prevent the dust to keep the keyboard clean, durable, and more easily take care of them.
Dell Inspiron M501R on-board our system was an AMD Phenom II P920 1.6GHz quad-core mobile processor. Dell M501R had only 6GB of RAM. Storage comes via a 500GB 7200rpm hard drive with display handled by an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v graphics card with 1GB of on-board RAM. The M501R ships with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit edition.
Dell Inspiron M501R has four USB ports, one of which is a combination USB/eSATA port, VGA, HDMI, RJ45, audio output / microphone input jack and multi-in-1 card reader and so on.
PCMark Vantage Performance
The M501R gave us solid performance with a PCMark Vantage score of 4112, especially in the audio-visual entertainment test; it got the high score of 4600. Overall, Inspiron M501R with VISION technology is performed well in business or entertainment applications.
3DMark Vantage test in Entry level
In the 3DMark Vantage test, we test Dell Inspiron M501R at the resolution of 1024 × 768 in Entry model; Inspiron M501R got a respectable 3DMark Vantage score of 7818, which GPU got the score of 9388. The results show that Inspiron M501R can run 3D games and movies smoothly.
Dell Inspiron M501R specs:
Processor: AMD Phenom II P920 1.6GHz quad-core mobile processor
Frequency 2.3GHz
Memory: 6GB
Hard drive: 500GB 7200rpm
Graphics card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v
DVD burner
Built-in audio chip audio system
Speakers: Built-in speaker
Screen size: 15.6 inches
Screen ratio 16:9
Resolution: 1366 × 768 pixels
Dimensions: 376 × 262 × 31.8-34.0mm
Wireless LAN: 802.11b/g/n
Keyboard: Dell (TM) keyboard with touchpad
Card reader: multi-in-one card reader
USB ports: 3 USB2.0 ports
Video output: VGAI, HDMI
Other port: USB/eSATA port, VGA, HDMI, RJ45, audio output / microphone input jack, DC power jack, security keyhole.
Battery: 6-cell
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Basic
Others: 1.3 million pixel camera
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