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The Inspiron 6000 was a low to medium-end laptop from Dell. Like many models, it had a variety of configurations. When this model first came to market, it wasn’t the greatest value for the money. However, later configurations were better values. Mine has the following configuration:<\/p>\n
For more details, check out the reports from CPU-Z<\/a>, HWiNFO<\/a>, and HardInfo<\/a>.<\/p>\n This seems to have been a middle of the road model. The CPU was on the faster side of what would have been available for this model and it is a version with a discrete video card vs. integrated video. However, the screen is the lowest end that was available.<\/p>\n The Pentium M was an excellent CPU for its time. It had the speed of a Pentium 4 but was much more efficient, achieving those speeds at lower power and a reduced clock rate. While you could get more raw speed out of the fastest Pentium 4s, the power cost was high with a significant cost to battery life.<\/p>\n When I got this machine, it had 512MB of RAM which I assume is what it probably shipped with. This is a reasonable amount for Windows XP but not if you want to upgrade to a newer version of Windows or Linux. I upgraded it to 1 GB though it can go as high as 2 GB. I upgraded so that this computer could crunch Einstein@home tasks (turns out 512MB wasn’t enough) and run Linux. 2 GB would be better for that and still not really a comfortable amount.<\/p>\n The ATI video doesn’t offer particularly great performance when it comes to things like games but it is still quite a bit better than using integrated chipset video. It has dedicated video RAM but I’m not entirely sure how much. Different tools in Windows report two different number and I get yet another number in Linux. HWiNFO reports 32MB, ATI drivers report 64MB, and Linux<\/p>\n The hard drive is an 80MB model that is most likely original. I have Windows XP and Linux dual booting on it currently. I have BOINC running in both and despite this being a 32-bit CPU, there are still a few projects that it gets work for including Asteroids@home (1<\/a>), Einstein@home (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>), and World Community Grid. You can also see how it is doing overall on FreeDC (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n The Inspiron 6000 was a low to medium-end laptop from Dell. Like many models, it had a variety of configurations. When this model first came to market, it wasn’t the greatest value for the money. However, later configurations were better values. Mine has the following configuration: CPU: Intel Pentium M 735 @ 1.7 GHz RAM: 1 GB DDR2-533 (PC2-4300) Video: ATI Mobility Radeon X300 Hard Drive: Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00 (80 GB) Screen: 1280 x 800 For more details, check out the reports from CPU-Z, HWiNFO, and HardInfo. This seems to have been a middle of the road model. The CPU was on the faster side of what would have been available for this model and it is a version with a discrete video card vs. integrated video. However, the screen is the lowest end that was available. The Pentium M was an excellent CPU for its time. It had the speed of a Pentium 4 but was much more efficient, achieving those speeds at lower power and a reduced clock rate. While you could get more raw speed out of the fastest Pentium 4s, the power cost was high with a significant cost to battery life. 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