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hey guys John Ranger from TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing for you of the Dell Inspiron 14z laptop this is a range a notebook that sort of slated above netbooks and below your full scale Core 2 Duo chips this is writing an ultra-low voltage chip which is either a core duo or Core 2 Duo I'm not sure what which one Dell says you can configure it with either 2 gigs of ram or up to 4 these things are really nice they sort of are the nice middle ground between portability and workability you can run full scale HD movies if you even do some editing and possibly even some light gaming on these we'll see and you get the battery life that you'd get with an atom processor coupled with really the usability of a Core 2 Duo chip or a cord to achieve depending on which version del sent these prices range anywhere from 650 all the way up to 800 bucks hang on how you configured it so enough with me talking let's go ahead and dig in typical Dell box here what do you know it's certainly Intel and a lot of Dell tape so we'll take the obligatory knife looks like it's gonna require a decent amount of cutting to get into this and we will start chopping away a little bit more tape all right that should be good see if we can get into this there you go turn up and see what's inside a typical Dell packaging it's styrofoam with the laptop tucked away in there it curious what the specs on this particular machine are and of course as you deal with all my computer reviews I'll be running through through specs I'll be doing comparison videos I'll show you how quickly it does things and sort of how it overall performance is let's take out this little box on the side first put that off so we can get the laptop out here lift off the styrofoam so you're going to get looks like a full restore CDs which is quite nice I give 8 your free 60 day trial of Microsoft Office and then a full version of Microsoft Works some warranty information there a ton of CDs in here you've got your restored discs and drivers it's like some more restored it there's a lot to restore and Roxio CD creator that's nice to deltablue lights up but take out the laptop and this is the 14 Z so it's a 14 inch screen there's also a 15 Z which quite obviously would be a 15 inch screen let's go ahead and move this off to the side yeah the packaging does look to be a new unit so that's nice this one comes in red and does have a DVD drive which is which is quite nice it's a very light feel to it let's go over some of the ports on the side you've got a card reader slots you've got one USB port Gigabit Ethernet HDMI VGA vent port on the left hand side on the right we've got two more USB ports your DVD writer and your power on the back you've got nothing and then there's the other side on the front looks like you've got your mic and audio on the back you've got some ports for the RAM and stuff let's go ahead and open this up does have a nice full keyboard it's not the chiclet style but they're flat keys keyboard does seem to be quite nice let's take a look at the first boot up and this is the Centrino chip inside so I'm not sure if that's going to be the core duo with a Core 2 Duo I'll boot it up and take a look it does appear to be glossy and there is a webcam in there as well let's go ahead and power this thing on and see how quickly the boot up is and take a look at some of the specs on the computer hopefully it has some sort of charge enough to turn on at least I'm not sure if this is a multi-touch trackpad or not but again we'll try it out I really do you like the keeper on this looks to be quite usable starting up Windows 7 and while that's starting up we'll take a look at the accessories that come in this box I pulled out I assume it's just the power brick what's the other thing that power brick is its to be sure your typical Dell fair but it is on the thin side which is nice but it's a little bit on the wide and the bit chunky and of course a little bit of an extender cable that back in the box preparing your system for first use so the computers boot it up you got to go through this first few stuff all soft the camera and come once you guys know what the specs on the machine are self respect to this Inspiron 14z we're looking at the a full Core 2 Duo ultra-low voltage chip you can tell because it's the you 7300 clock in at one point three gigahertz this particular model has three gigs of ram and comes up to four and it's got 64-bit Windows 7 home premium so say a relatively powerful computer let's take a look at the rest of the specs and I'll run through and do a full Windows seven rating in an upcoming video hard drive this comes with a 250 gigabyte drive I believe you can get it up to 320 if you'd like depending on how you spec it out from Dell and it's got a screen resolution of max 1366 by 768 those look to be a quite a nice computer brightness goes all the way up I've turned it down it also looks like Dell left a lot of the bloatware off of this which is definitely on the nice side for a size comparison to another laptop you may be familiar with the 13-inch unibody MacBook are the same size as new MacBook Pros let's go ahead and pull this off and see what it looks like go ahead and stock them side-by-side and I'll pull the camera down so you guys can see so here's the thickness comparison of the 13-inch MacBook MacBook Pro and the Dell Inspiron 14z as you can see there's definitely a difference as far as thickness goes the Inspiron is a little bit on the thicker side size-wise you stack on top of each other this the Mac only has a 13.3 inch wear the Inspiron is a full 4k inch that accounts for the exercise across the top the Inspiron is by no means a stick or a fat computer it's definitely on the lighter side it's powered by a six cell battery in the back which Dell claims will get you probably about five to six hours which you probably translate to an actual usage time of around four or four and a half hours let's say but I'll keep it in the labs and but it through a full gamut of tests so as if you're interested in the Inspiron 14 Z's to go out to the channel I'll be running it through just a ton of Diagnostics I'll be testing how it handles sort of your daily usage in my usage how it handles Full HD YouTube how it handles streaming video including Hulu how it handles multitasking and just how it works on an every day to day use I would also give it a Windows 7 benchmark test you know the wonder windows 7 standard scores you can see you know how things rank but this is by no means a powerhouse computer but it's definitely in every day computer one that you can do most everything with graphics wise this thing is running the Intel graphics media accelerator I believe it's the X 4500 HD so it has to have integrated graphics but a couple or three gigs of ram or define how you spec it all the way up to four that should be quite enough for your everyday use and certainly will get you through a good game a world of warcraft center you guys hope you enjoy the unboxing and stay tuned for the rest of the videos I'm John Rhett enger' for TechnoBuffalo