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hey guys jon rettinger from technobuffalo here they review for you of the dell inspiron 14z this is part of Dell's consumers z series which takes advantage of CU l view processors may start to hear that around and what that stands for is consumer ultra-low voltage with that then translates to is primarily standard Intel chips that have been clocked down redesigned to use less voltage between stanyan factors can put them into thinner packages so you're going to get better than netbook performances but not as fast as your you know two gigahertz and faster core2duo that you'll find on other laptops the price range of this runs anywhere from six 5000 into 750 we're reviewing the higher end model right here it does have a core two duo ultra low voltage chip coming in at one point three gigahertz this is running the windows 7 home premium 64-bit it's got three gigabytes of ram in there and got a HP cd/dvd drive which something that you don't really see in some of these ultra low voltage computers it's got a 14 inch screen as you probably guessed by the 14-team moniker and going over some of the rest of specs on advice it's got the Intel GMA x4500 HD it's got a six cell battery which they say is gonna get you about eight hours I tend to find it to be a closer to four in terms of standard usage it's got a 1.3 megapixel integrated webcam you know Wi-Fi sort of everything else that you would expect from a weight wise it comes in about 4.4 pounds so it's not the lightest laptop in the world but it's certainly not the heaviest the resolution to the 14 inch screen is 1366 x 768 so I don't give you a bit of a tour of the laptop you probably saw it during my unboxing let me show you what this thing looks like you get in a variety of colors to got the red one right here obviously so as far as ports go go ahead and plug out the power cord on the left side you've got your vents vga hdmi ethernet one USB and a multi card reader on the front of laptop you've got microphone and headset ports on the side you've got two more USB and there is your DVD burning drive and your power port it's relatively thin and pretty light really we notice the thinness is on the back if you compare this size wise with the standard l14 inspiron that you may find it best buy or your local electronics store will definitely see a stiff Akande difference in size for comparison here is a unibody macbook this is the 13-inch model you can sort of see how things stack up from a size comparison so it's a little bit bigger than a macbook but not by much it does actually weigh a bit less go ahead put that off to the side and let's keep digging in to the computer so now take a look at the keyboard certainly typing is very important to computer usage keyboard doesn't have much flex to it at all it's pretty nice nice keyboard wide space certainly full-sized it sort of is Chiclets but not Chiclets um the keys are flat like the chiclet style but they're pushed close together there's a lot of throw and it feels good to type on it's probably one of the better laptop keyboards that I've used so no issues there at the keyboard at all the mouse and the track button right here it's not multi-touch it does feel the same as the side a little bit maybe rougher was the biggest fan of the trackpad the buttons seem to be pushed up a little bit high I think they could have been pushed down a little bit it have had much more room to use your finger around there so it wasn't answering that a deal breaker of something to keep in mind okay so let's talk about video playback I made a video previously demonstrated how this handles HD playback in both hulu and youtube HD and handled it well but it was a little bit stuttering in that video I was using a screen recording program to do that called Camtasia want to show you what that looks like without the screen recorder running you can see right here I've got cash manager open so you can track to the processor speed let's go ahead and cue up we'll go to youtube HD you can see what this looks like and we'll kick it up to high resolutions you to bless so we'll go to my channel youtube com so that's John for lakers I don't pick the first video that we have here there's review of the nexus well mo go and go right to the page so we'll kick this up I'll turn the turn the volume down a little bit and we'll kick this up to 720p and let's check the processor speed here so it's staggering a little bit that may do the internet connection so the video is playing and playing smoothly there's a little bit of a buffer issue at the beginning the processor speed though goes all the way up once it's playing to 67 75 percent right now we're at 72 nothing to go ahead push this back so I don't have a buffering problem and I go to put this on full screen you can see it was moving wallpaper here is moving pretty fluidly so the moral being you're not going to get fantastic HD playback what you're going to get definitely watchable HD playback and I had the same experience on both hulu and youtube HD very watchable the audios synced up nicely you're not going to have any trouble with that now this as far as handles multitasking handle it okay you can definitely have four or five browser windows open you could have a microsoft office open on here too and not run into any issue 3 gigabytes of ram certainly helps out with that and not running an atom chip definitely gives you a little bit more power than perhaps have i've been used to on a netbook i did just run a performance score on this let me show you what that came in at so the overall score here is 3.4 and that's based on the lowest score processor got a 4.1 memory so that's the hopefully you guys can see that that's the RAM got a 4.7 graphic Scotty 3.7 gaming graphics got a 3.4 which is where a 3.4 rating came from and the primary hard drive got a 5.4 you can get the hard drives can really range as far as size goes I think this one has a 160 gigabyte hard drive in there how which is user accessible I shouldn't mention case you want to upgrade it on your own so overall this is a very capable machine certainly a step up from a netbook no you're not sacrificing that much over a standard consumer notebook so I can definitely recommend this anybody out there that's looking for a pc that's a little bit lighter and you want the smaller screen size having a 14 inch ultra low voltage is a little bit odd generally run 13 inch range or even a little bit smaller so 14 is a unique size a screen resolution wasn't fantastic I would have liked you've seen a higher res screen especially for a laptop that's going to run each other hundred fifty bucks I think this one does for the higher end you know at that price point you can definitely get full core two duo chips it's going to be a little bit chunkier a little bit bigger you're definitely a sacrifice some of the size but you are gonna get a little bit more power so I'm not entirely sure who the target on graphic for this would be probably go soon would be good right towards students but if you're in the market for an ultra-low voltage laptop and you really like Adele brand you can't go wrong with this it works well but you know what you're getting yourself into you're not going to get a powerhouse gonna be able to render HD video although I did try and it took a very long time but it didn't do it you're going to get a computer that's great for for multitasking for word processing for web browsing and doing some video doing you're not going to play the HD games right here don't have any illusions that you will be able to and I guys hope you enjoyed jon rettinger from technobuffalo calm and i will see you guys in the next video