Dell Studio 15
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Dell Studio 15 (Studio 15 Series)Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 256 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 2.76kg
Price: 999 euro
Average of 21 scores (from 24 reviews)
Reviews for the Dell Studio 15
Source: Reg Hardware
For the money, the Studio 15 is a very well equipped laptop and its performance scores are not to be sniffed at. It may not be the most portable of machines and its battery life is a little on the low side, but if you're happy to stay still and near mains power you won't be disappointed. Add in the ability to choose a distinctive case design and you've got a good looking, well specified, decent performing laptop for a reasonable price tag.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/14/2009
Rating: Total score: 85%
Source: Computer Shopper
This summer, Dell updated its Studio line with colorful cases and a gorgeous high-definition screen. The laptop calls to mind other entertainment notebooks, such as the higher-end Dell Studio XPS 16 and the Lenovo Ideapad Y650, but it starts at just $599, a fraction of the cost. We tested a $1,094 configuration and found that the new Studio 15 has strong performance to match its striking looks. The Studio 15’s stylish (and customizable) case, gorgeous screen, and strong performance make it a media lover’s dream.
84
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 84%
Source: Techradar
Dell's 15" Studio is the best all-round mainstream laptop currently available at this price. Those seeking a gaming laptop should look elsewhere, but for practically every other use the Dell Studio 15 is comfortably the best in this group test. Its all-round abilities are amazing, especially considering the price, and we feel it's the best mainstream laptop you can currently buy.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 04/30/2009
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Comp Reviews
Dell's Studio 15 laptop is designed as an alternative to the lower cost Inspiron or the more expensive XPS. While it does offer some compelling features and very attractive price, it ends up as a fairly average thin and light system. Dell offers a wide range of configuration options that can match a wide range of budget and features but they fall short in a couple of areas. First, the dedicated graphics are quite weak compared to other company offerings and the case is thicker than it really should be.
3 von 5, Preis gut, Mobilität schlecht, Leistung schlecht
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 11/12/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 80% performance: 40% mobility: 40%
Source: Pocket Lint
The Dell Studio 15 is a reasonable compromise between portability and price. The screen is great and the keyboard highly usable. However, battery life is poor and performance, at this price, is satisfactory rather than outstanding.
7 von 10, Display sehr gut, Leistung gut, Mobilität schlecht, Preis gut
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 10/08/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 80% display: 90% mobility: 40%
Source: Techradar
Offering impressive comfort and a comprehensive specification, the Dell Studio 15 is one of the best mainstream laptops you can buy.
4 von 5
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/27/2008
Rating: Total score: 80, Ausstattung sehr gut, Leistung gut, Display gut, Mobilität schlecht% price: 80% performance: 80% features: 90% display: 80% mobility: 40%
Source: Trusted Reviews
Dell's Studio 15 can be characterised in two ways. Without the 1,440 x 900 it's a very good, but not quite outstanding, 15.4 inch notebook that has a strong but not dazzling design - not at least till you opt for the Mike Ming lid designs - and standard feature sets and pricing that are competitive but not outrageously so. With the 1,440 x 900 WLED display, however, you have a different proposition entirely. It's a feature that few can offer and given you can have it and not sacrifice too much in terms of specification or price over competing models, it helps elevate the Studio 15 to an award.
(von 10): 8, Leistung 8, Ausstattung 9, Preis zufriedenstellend
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/25/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% performance: 80% features: 90%
Source: PC Pro
A solid, stylish and comfortable debut, but it's too expensive in this configuration
4 von 6, Verarbeitung gut, Preis schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 67% price: 40% workmanship: 80%
Source: Gadget Zone
A stylish notebook with various configurations available to suit your requirements. A great buy if you can't hold on for Centrino 2 to become more readily available.
3.5 von 5, Preis gut, Verarbeitung gut, Leistung gut, Mobilität schlecht, Emissionen schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/12/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 80% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80% emissions: 40%
Source: PC Pro
New lines from Dell don't come along too often, so the recently announced Studio line has understandably garnered plenty of column inches. Designed to sit between the low-end Inspiron and high-end XPS families, it comes in 15in and 17in flavours and its target audience could be pretty much anyone: few laptops are as customisable as this. A solid, stylish and comfortable debut, but it's too expensive in this configuration
4 von 6, Preis schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 67% price: 40%
Source: Notebookreview.com
At the end of the day the Studio 15 is a solid offering in the 15-inch consumer notebook category. The build quality, range of customizable options, expandability, style, and price make this an excellent choice if you're in the market for a 15-inch notebook. Still, we would have liked to see more graphics card options than just the integrated Intel X3100 and dedicated ATI Radeon HD 3450. Issues like lack of VGA cable screw posts, dedicated docking station connector, or lack of a simple RAM expansion cover are minor, and many experienced users may find the all-in-one access panel on the bottom of the notebook to be extremely helpful. The pre-configured model we tested suffered from weak integrated graphics that ruined an otherwise enjoyable experience, but configurations with dedicated graphics are available from Dell.com.
Preis gut, Mobilität gut
User Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/24/2008
Rating: price: 80% mobility: 80%
Source: CNet
Parsing the intended markets for Dell's ever-shifting in-house brand names requires some tea-leaf reading. It's been easier lately, with the company stripping down its consumer brands to just the Inspiron and XPS lines. Now the company is adding a new line between the budget Inspiron and the high-end XPS. The new Studio line, as personified by the 15.4-inch Studio 15, has the same tapered shape, slot-loading optical drive and rounded hinge as the Dell XPS M1530, but a similarly configured Studio system costs roughly £350 less than a similarly outfitted XPS. Dell's first release from its new Studio line, the Studio 15, sits between the Inspiron and XPS lines and offers a good mix of features for the price, but we'd be tempted to save up a few extra pounds for a thinner, lighter XPS.
7.3 von 10, Ausstattung gut, Mobilität mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/27/2008
Rating: Total score: 73% features: 80% mobility: 50%
Source: PC Mag
When Dell crossed the bargain pricing of its Inspiron laptops with the design sense of its XPS line, something sensational emerged—a new mainstream laptop line called Dell Studio. With the new line, Dell hopes to reel in the latest generation of back-to-schoolers, content creators, social-network addicts, and camera enthusiasts, just to name a few groups. Retaining many of the XPS's qualities while selling it for Inspiron prices is what makes this Studio laptop a winner.
4.5 von 5, Leistung herausragend
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/26/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 100%
Foreign Reviews
Source: T-Online
DE→ENonline available, Medium, Date: 09/10/2009
Rating: Total score: 41% performance: 36% features: 44% mobility: 92% ergonomy: 18%
Source: PC Welt
DE→ENonline available, Medium, Date: 09/08/2009
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 60% performance: 36% features: 44% mobility: 92% ergonomy: 18%
Source: Notebookforum.at
DE→ENonline available, Short, Date: 02/18/2009
Rating: workmanship: 90%
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 11-12/08
DE→EN, Length Unknown, Date: 12/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% emissions: 40%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→ENonline available, Long, Date: 11/21/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% performance: 40% features: 50% display: 90% mobility: 60% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 80%
Source: Chip.de
DE→ENonline available, Short, Date: 08/20/2008
Rating: Total score: 78% performance: 77% features: 98% display: 100% mobility: 50% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 70%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→ENonline available, Long, Date: 08/15/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% performance: 40% features: 50% display: 70% mobility: 50% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 90%
Source: Notebookcheck
DE→ENonline available, Long, Date: 08/12/2008
Rating: Total score: 85% performance: 81% display: 93% mobility: 76% workmanship: 86% ergonomy: 87% emissions: 85%
Source: MuyComputer
ES→ENonline available, Medium, Date: 09/05/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80%
Source: Techno Zoom
IT→EN, Length Unknown, Date: 08/15/2008
Rating: Total score: 90%
Comment
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450: Successor of the HD 2400 produced in 55nm (therefore with a faster clockspeed) and with DirectX 10.1 support. Avivo HD video support enables the gpu to decode HD videos. For modest casual gamers suited (demanding games run only in very low settings).
Lower end of Graphics Cards for users who want to play games. New games should run on these cards, but only with decreased details and mediocre resolution.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
T8300:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.4": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays. Nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.76 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.
Dell: Dell Inc. is a multinational technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and other computer-related products. Based in Texas, Dell employs more than 82,700 people worldwide (2009). In 2006, Dell purchased the computer hardware manufacturer Alienware. In most countries, the laptops are directly sold to consumers by Dell and each notebook custom-assembled according to a selection of options. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
75.71%: This rating is not convincing. It must be considered, that there exist hardly any laptops, which receive a rating below 60%. This notebook is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
