Dell Vostro 1700NB, £429 excluding VAT and Delivery

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The Dell Vostro 1700 is a 17-inch machine and being a business machine, the first thing you’ll notice about this notebook is the build quality. Dell hasn’t cut any corners, offering a body made from magnesium alloy instead of plastic, which is used on the Inspiron 1700 with which it shares the same body design.

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The Delll Vostro 1700NB is available here (opens in new tab) for £429.

Components

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8100 (2.10 GHz, 3 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)

Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium - English

17.0" Widescreen WXGA+ (1440x900) TFT Display

Matte Jet Black with 2.0 mega pixel camera

2048MB (2x1024) 667MHz DDR2 Dual Channel

250GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive

128MB nVidia® GeForce® 8400M GS

Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software

Primary 6-cell Lithium-Ion Battery (56 WHr)

Désiré Athow
Désiré Athow

Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website building and web hosting when DHTML and frames were en vogue and started writing about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium. Following an eight-year stint at ITProPortal.com where he discovered the joys of global tech-fests, Désiré now heads up TechRadar Pro. Previously he was a freelance technology journalist at Incisive Media, Breakthrough Publishing and Vnunet, and Business Magazine. He also launched and hosted the first Tech Radio Show on Radio Plus.