The Dell Studio 1537 can be best described as a multi-media laptop. Powerful, long battery life, and a great designed machine. A laptop with over 200+ customizable patterns for your notebook design. After using the machine for about a month, it’s been a powerful and reliable machine. Supporting almost all new media from blu-ray with packed surround sound and it’s gorgeous 15.4 HD Led display which makes your video look lifelike. The machine has its flaws and its great pros…

PROS OF THE MACHINE

• Great Design
• Huge Amount of Ports
• HD LED Display
• Back lit keyboard
• Decent Graphics card + good hardware combo
• Great Battery Life

CONS OF THE MACHINE

• CD Eject Issues
• General Vista Issues
• Webcam Low Quality
• Heat Exhaust on Lap Exerts lots of heat

The laptop in general is aimed for those into video & audio and all around usage. Great for internet browsing and powerful to do video editing and audio work. Packed with a HD display and 5.1 surround speaker set its built for all your media purposes, with its 4gb of ram and dual core processor the laptop is even powerful to act as a home media machine, with its HDMI & VGA port it is a very versatile machine and can be used in many ways through different consumers. Pricing is anywhere from 600-900$+ depending on how you customize your machine specs.

The Technical Specs of the machine are as followed:

Tech Specs

Processors
Up to Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T9400 (2.53GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB) High bin speed available: T9550, T9600, T9800
Operating System
Up to 64-bit Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate
Memory
Up to 8GB Dual Channel 800MHz DDR2 memory support.
Chipset
Upto Intel® Cantiga GM45 (for UMA) and PM45 (for Discrete)
Graphics
Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD Studio 15 discrete upsells: 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 512MB3 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
LCD Display
Glossy widescreen 15.6 inch LED HD display (1366 x 768)
Audio and Speakers
Intel High Definition Audio 2.2 Optional Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB Software Suite
Hard Drives
Up to 500GB5 configured with a 5400 RPM SATA hard drive Up to 320GB5 with a 7200 RPM SATA HDD
Optical Drives
8X Slot Load CD/DVD Writer (DVD+/-RW) 6X Slot Load Blue-ray/CD/DVD Combo Drive
Power
4-cell 37WHr Li-Ion Battery 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion Battery 9-cell 85WHr Li-Ion Battery
Camera
Built-in 2.0MP webcam
Wireless
Wi-Fi Options: Dell Wireless 1397 802.11b/g Half Mini Card Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11 a/g/n Half Mini Card Dell 1510 802.11 n Half Mini Card Intel WiFi Link 5300 802.11 a/g/n Half Mini Card Mobile Broadband Options: Dell 5530 HSPA mini-card Bluetooth Options: Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Internal (2.1) mini-card
Ports, Slots, Chassis
Externally Accessible (2) USB 2.0 compliant 4-pin ports (1) USB/eSATA combination port HDMI connector 15-pin VGA video connector Integrated network connector 10/100/1000 LAN (RJ45) AC adapter connector Audio jacks (1 line-in, 1-line out, 1 Mic-in) 4-pin IEEE 1394 port 34 mm ExpressCard slot Internal Card Slots 2 Mini-Card 1 Half Mini-Card 2 Full Mini-Card Dimensions & Weight Width: 14.6″ (371.6mm) Height: 1.0″ (25.3mm) front / 1.5″ (38.9mm) back Depth: 10.0″ (252.9mm) Weight: Starting weight of 5.54 lbs. (2.515 kg) with 15.6” HD TL LED, 6-cell battery, integrated graphics and a DVD+RW drive. Weights will vary depending on configurations and manufacturing variability.

Credit:  www.dell.com

All in all the machine is a great laptop and is a bit big but mobile at the most and serves a great wide audience with its great power and price.

I’d recommend the machine to any geek and or customer looking to get a solid reliable powerful machine.

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-Adrian Cauguiran