Dell's Vostro V13 is an Ultra-Thin You can Afford
Dell's Vostro V13 is an Ultra-Thin You can Afford
Posted 12/08/2009 at 9:45am
| by Paul Lilly
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Ultra-thin notebooks tend to be sleek, sexy, and expensive. By our count, that's two out three desirable qualities, which leaves the door wide open for an OEM to ship an ultra-thin that doesn't put the hurt on the wallet. Would you have guessed Dell would be the one to step through?
Dell, the same OEM responsible for the $1,500+ Adamo, is making headlines once again for an ultra-thin notebook, only this time the price will be in reach of the mainstream audience. Enter the Vostro V13, a 3.5-pound ultraportable measuring a scant 0.65-inches thick, the same as the Adamo. But at only $449, the Vostro V13 is the third of the price of the least expensive Adamo.
It gets even better. At $450, you're probably expecting an Intel Atom processor inside, but that isn't the case. Geared towards business travelers, the 13.3-inch V13 will sport an ultra-low voltage (ULV) Core 2 processor along with 4GB of DDR3 memory. Details remain sparse, but according to reports, it will also ship with Bluetooth and 802.11g/n support, as well as an integrated webcam and microphone.
Color us impressed.
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Obsidian
December 08, 2009 at 12:38pm
This thing is worse in almost every way from the $799 Asus UL30Vt that was released last week. The comparitivly speced Dell swings in at $824 with 'only' 32-bit Windows 7, Integrated Intel 4500MHD crappy-graphics and a non-overcloced 1.3 at it's highest processor spec and 4GB of RAM. The only ways the Dell is better is that it's .18 inches thinner, comes with a 1.3MP Webcam instead of the 0.3 Asus, a 7200rpm hard drive, and it has an anti-glare screen.
Paul, come on man, you're impressed too easily on this one. The 13.3-inch market is being targeted for the CULV products but Asus is dominating at the moment.
The Asus UL30Vt has HDMI out, an Nvidia 210M chip it can use on the fly, more battery life, a larger hard drive, 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium, and auto-overclocking of it's 1.3 processor to close to 1.7 when needed.
Dell got served ;)
holmessh
December 08, 2009 at 11:22am
The $450 comes with Ubuntu an Intel® Celeron® M Processor ULV 743 and 2 gigs of ram. Here's the link-
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/vostro-v13?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&ref=hbn
Ulrich
December 08, 2009 at 10:53am
Check out the Dell website... the core2 is not $450... same for the ram, and wireless N... get's well over $700 with all that...
devereauxx
December 08, 2009 at 10:47am
more details please i am in the market for this type of pc but if its no better than the asus ul30a-x5 why bother
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