When you read this title, you may confuse that if Dell Studio 17 (1747) is exactly the Dell Studio 17 which is released in 2008? Are them same or not? The answer is not, Dell Studio 17 (1747), upgraded from Dell Studio 17, is with new design, latest processor and new speakers, new screen with 16:9 ratio.
Dell Studio 17 (1747)’s side profile is designed with wedge-shape, which makes the Dell Studio 17 (1747) looks a little slimmer, if taking out the battery, Dell Studio 17 is similar to the laptop of 15 inch.
Studio 17 (1747)’s cover has a good feedback, which is like somewhat rubbery texture, and is easier for users to grip. While, the rubbery texture cover is not so durable to some extent, so it is better for you to use it with more care, but, it doesn’t mean that the quality of the laptop cover is not good, if you try to press hard on the cover of Dell Studio 17 (1747), there is definitely no any influence on the screen.
The keyboard of Studio 17 (1747) is in black and the palmrest is in silver. The keyboard and palmrest of laptop both have a good performance of durability, what’s more, as you know, Dell Studio 17 (1747) is a glossy laptop, and so many people will worry that they will have to clean their laptop usually to keep it clean. But it has good news for you: Both finishes appear to resist light scratches, so there is no need to clean constantly.
Dell Studio 17 features a 17.3 inch screen with the resolution of 1600×900 pixels. Multitouch is spreading far and wide into the branches of commercial electronics, Dell, being one of the beneficiaries. Their new Studio 17 laptop has a multi-touch display. So you can enlarge the picture with your fingers. Furthermore, the Dell Studio 17 can be amusing specifically in horizontal viewing angles as well as vertical viewing angles. The horizontal viewing angles are up to about 80 degrees and the vertical viewing angles are about 15 to 20 degrees. So watching movies with your family or friends is a no bad choice.
On the bottom of Dell Studio 17 (1747), as you can see, Dell has taken replacement into consideration; there is a single hatch for you to easy upgrade. Open the hatch, you will find that there are two hard drive bays, three mini-PCIe slots, two memory slots. One hard drive bay, memory slot and two mini-PCIe slots are free now, which can be for good further use. However, the graphics and processors are required to disassemble the inside of the laptop to take them apart.
Dell Studio 17 (1747) has a perfect keyboard, it comes with a full size design and with a numeric keypad, and there is a large palmrest for you. There is no uncomfortable feeling and your wrist will get enough support from the large palmrest. The keyboard of new Studio 17 is gapless which will avoid the dust; the feedback of the keyboard is very good, it will make you feel like that you type on a desktop. There are also some shortcut keys for you to choose, with the keys of “F4 + F5”, you can adjust the brightness, and with “FN+F5”, you can refresh a webpage.
The touchpad is with some multitouch functions, you can expect it with two-finger scrolling, rotating, pinch zoom, and a three-fingered flick. As the touchpad is in matte finish, so you can use it with ease even though your hands are dry or moist.
The various features packed into the Dell Studio 17 (1747) laptop include an Intel Pentium Dual Core/Core 2 Duo processor option, 8 GB of RAM, 1 TB storage space, Blu-ray option and an option of either ATI or Intel graphics.
On the front side of Dell Studio 17 (1747), there is an indicator light.
front side of Dell Studio 17 (1747):indicator light
On the rear side of Studio 17 (1747), there is nothing but the heat vent.
rear side of Dell Studio 17 (1747): heat vent
On the left side of Dell Studio 17 (1747), there is eSATA/USB combo port, VGA, HDMI, ExpressCard/34 slot, headphone jack, USB port, LAN.
left side of Dell Studio 17 (1747):eSATA/USB combo port, VGA, HDMI, ExpressCard/34 slot, headphone jack, USB port, LAN.
On the right side of the Studio 17 (1747), there is SDHC-card reader, two USB ports, power jack, and power button.
right side of Dell Studio 17 (1747):SDHC-card reader, two USB ports, power jack, and power button.
Now we have a look of the performance for Dell Studio 17 (1747).
The test result of wPrime 32M for Dell Studio 17 (1747) (the lower the better).
The test result of PCMark 05 for Dell Studio 17 (1747)
The test result of 3DMark06 for Dell Studio 17 (1747)
Dell Studio 17 (1747) comes with 9-cell battery, which enhances its battery life. When we turn the brightness to its 70% level, and turn on Wi-Fi, browse web and so on, the battery can last for 4 hours and 19 minutes. The result is fairly good in the class of such a high-end notebook.
Now let us have a look of the Dell Studio 17 (1747)’s performance of heat.
As you can see, the following picture is the temperature (Fahrenheit) of Dell Studio 17 (1747) when it works.
This is the temperature of its keyboard.
This is the temperature of its bottom.
