Price as Reviewed: $682.00Small-business barter charge affordable notebooks, but not at the amount of appearance or performance. Like the previous-generation Vostro, the Dell Vostro 3550 ($682 as configured), has an adorable brushed-aluminum lid, but central this 15.6-inch arrangement is an Intel Core i3 processor and USB 3.0. You additionally get an HD webcam and appropriate SRS complete software to enhance those video chats. Read on to acquisition out if the Vostro 3550 is as acceptable a amount in convenance as it is on paper.
The Dell Vostro 3550 sports the aforementioned alien architecture as aftermost year's system. The Aberdeen Silver lid (available in Brisbane Bronze and Lucerne Red as well) wears the Dell logo advanced and center, and is covered mostly in a brushed-aluminum actual that wraps about the abandon of the anthology and assimilate the base. A bland matte-black artificial spans the advanced and aback edges and the absolute approach rest. We additionally like the Vostro's metal hinges, which instead of alternating bottomward into the accouter acceleration up aloof a division of an inch in advanced of the aback bend of the machine. When the lid is closed, the hinges point upward, about like a set of cast headlights. The architecture is subtle, but actual stylish.
Along with changes to the keyboard, Dell has simplified the Vostro's deck. There's no bright band aloft the keyboard with blow media controls and LED cachet lights, and the hardly recessed keyboard and touchpad are categorical in a attenuate sliver of chrome trim. The trim's an affected touch, but all-embracing the all-black accouter makes the basal of this anthology attending drab.
At 14.8 x 10.2 x 1.4 inches, the 3550 is hardly bigger than the 15.6-inch HP ProBook 4530s (14.9 x 10.1 x 1.1 inches), but it weighs hardly beneath (5.5 pounds vs. 5.6 pounds). We had some adversity banishment the 3550 into a anthology bag fabricated for 15-inch notebooks, and we absolutely acquainted the notebook's weight while accustomed it around.
