Andrew Cunningham
Dell's new Inspiron 11 3000 is colorful and inexpensive.
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Now that I'm a few days removed from the noise of CES, I've had some time to think more about everything I saw at the show but couldn't write up at the time. One of those things was Dell's new Inspiron 11 3000, a series of multicolored plastic Windows laptops that start at $199.
To be fair, sub-$200 Windows laptops have been a thing for a while now and they aren't going to be very exciting to tech enthusiasts ("oh, they're just netbooks," sneered someone within earshot of me at Dell's display table. He's not wrong, really). And the base $200 configuration of these isn't doing anything that HP's Stream 11 or Acer's Cloudbook isn't already doing. The base model still uses a low-end Atom-derived Celeron processor (the model and core count wasn't disclosed), 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and 2.4GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi, all of which will make it unsatisfactory as a primary computer.
What's interesting about Dell's take on the new-wave netbook is that you can actually configure it with a wider variety of components, where its primary competitors offer very limited upgradeability or none at all. The 32GB of flash storage can be upgraded to either a 500GB spinning hard drive or 128GB SSD, 4GB RAM and 802.11ac Wi-Fi options will be available, and you can upgrade to an Atom-derived Pentium CPU (though again, we don't know anything about core count or clock speed, so it's hard to say how much of a speed increase this will provide).
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