Dell Inspiron 11Z

Dell Inspiron 11z review - PC Advisor

The Dell Inspiron 11z laptop sports an 11.6in screen and low-power processor, and hits a modest £399 price point. Dell's first netbook was the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, followed shortly after by the inch-bigger Mini 10. The Dell Inspiron 11z goes one better again - it's in essence the same chassis, now scaled up to accomodate an 11in screen. But instead of an Intel Atom, it takes an Intel Celeron processor.So the Dell Inspiron 11z sits in that interesting middle zone between laptop and netbook, with a price about £100 more than a 10in netbook.Like the Dell Mini range, the Dell Inspiron 11z sports a pivoted trackpad, a low-grade copy of the glass multi-touch input device found on Apple portables. While Dell's trackpad is larger than that found on most Windows PC laptops, it's still rather small, and lacks the silky sensitivity of the...