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(More customer reviews)This Dell Inspiron follows the current styling and aesthetics of their Home PC offerings. This tower computer is of modest heft with a glossy faceplate outlined with subtle silver trim. It looks very pleasing sitting next to my Gateway monitor. The front features a DVD drive DVD RW writer and CD burner in the top bay, a empty drive bay slot (hmm, blue ray would go nicely there!) and what looks like another expansion bay is a slick door cover for Audio Input / Output and two USB 2.0 connectors - great for syncing my iPhone. The specs of the machine sport a single core AMD processor, initially gave me some misgivings and prompts a quick search to see if the CPU is upgradeable to dual core or higher (it is). As it turns out the single core AMD LE1300 CPU is surprisingly capable and powers through all the tasks our family throws at it: photo editing, netflix streaming, DVD burning and web browsing. If needs expand I can always get a triple core or quad core AMD cpu (albeit one that uses the "e" for energy efficiency such as the 8450e -best for this consumer level power supply). For now, the family is satisfied with the performance and stability of this Dell entry level system. The price for this was inline with our needs also!
Opening the case reveals a easily accessible set of memory slots. With two empty slots available on a standard 2GB build, we next put two additional sticks of ram in, which were added with no problem. The 300GB drive is ample for our needs as we long since learned to use large external USB drives to store precious photos, video and other information that is a pain to move when buying a new system.
One surprisingly useful feature was the HDMI video out - we used it with Amazon Video on demand movies and our projector which has HDMI for fantastic results. The integrated ATI video solutions worked wonderfully. According to AMD the onboard video is compatible SLI with certain ATI cards (ATI 3450 primarily) you buy and put in the PCI-E slot. Good to know as I have been interested in some PC version of some console games.
The Vista Basic is fine once Service Pack 2 is applied and all Dell updates [...] for the machine are applied. The Dell Inspiron 546MT has been a solid performer and provides more than enough functionality for most home users. It runs very quiet and I am sure it is drawing less power than the Pentium 4 system it replaces!
Our family is glad to have the Dell Inspiron and would recommend it!
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Computer Type : DesktopModel : Dell Inspiron 546 MinitowerItem # : 5796Processor : AMD Sempron LE-1300 2.3GHz.Memory (RAM) : 2048MBHard Drive 1 : 320GB 7200RPMHard Drive 2 : NoneVideo Card : Integrated Video CardOptical Drive : DVDRW (DVD BURNER)Color : BlackNetwork Card : Integrated Network CardSound Card : Integrated Sound CardOperating System : Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic 32-BitRestore CD : includedOptional Components : NoneKeyboard and Mouse : Keyboard and Mouse IncludedItem Condition : NewCondition Grade : ALCD Monitor (For All in ones) : NoneDefects : NoneWarranty : 1 Year Manufacturer Warranty
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