Dell Vostro V130 Review: Good laptop for businessman

Processing capabilities of the V130 was significantly enhanced compared to Vostro V13 predecessor, but still thin and light design as before.
One year after starting ultra-thin models for successful business people with V13 Vostro, Dell continues to upgrade with better features Vostro V130 model. Stay with certain aluminum shell and stylish design but property V130 Intel ULV Core i5 double performance, cooling technologies Cooling Hyperbaric latest from Dell and extensive connections than before.Vostro V130 is available in two colors to choose from on the market are Red Lucerne and Silver Aberdeen .

Configuration testversion of the Dell Vostro V130 include 13.3 inch screen resolution 1366 x 768 pixels, Intel Core i5-470U speed of 1.33 GHz, 4GB Ram, 500GB hard drive speed the 7200 revolutions / minute, Intel GMA graphics chip HD.

Design

With size 33 x 23 x 1.65 / 1.98 cm and weighs only 1.6 kg ( lighter than the V13 0.18 kg), Vostro V130 is a true ultraportable. Chassis made of aluminum alloy to ensure while the hand area  magnesium alloy helps prevent collisions and improve heat dissipation capability, making it comfortable to use. Dell laptop with a weight of not greater than some 13 inch models the lightest on the market of about 1.3 kg but more powerful configurations and price "pleasant" than many.

Vostro hinge design of the V13 is very similar line of Dell XPS and Adamo with the bulge a little. Using zinc to produce material, joints appear to be quite sure and manufacturers introduced withstand the impact force.

Connectors and webcam.

Connectivity on the V130 has been upgraded quite significantly V13 predecessor a year ago. Machine increase the number of USB ports on the two and a HDMI port with USB / eSATA combo, LAN and VGA. Vostro V130 has arranged most of the edge connector on the unit and to take "land" for five types of memory card reader side, headphone jack, microphone at the front edge.

1.3-megapixel Webcam come may provide a good image in the video test call via Skype. Good quality especially present in the human skin color reproduction and accurate face detection on the frame. In addition, the software of the Dell Webcam Central, users can add visual effects, tweaking the quality and other fun frames.

Keyboard, Touchpad

Vostro V130 using regular keyboard design that recent models like the Dell XPS and almost no change compared to the previous V13 model. Due to the 13 inch screens are small so to ensure the correct size standard conventional keyboard, the keys of the V130 is designed to close the edge of saving space.

Experience the keys pretty well with the emerging medium and especially the large navigation key help in the surf or work with text files. However, the V130 is still a drawback is the lack of multimedia shortcut keys that must use the same keyboard with a button Fn.

Touchpad is a strong point of the V130. Size touchpad is 8 x 4.3 cm similar to the most popular series at present but slightly concave design down a bit. The surface roughness using both a hand not slippery, do not stick to a fingerprint to help increase the accuracy of the gesture. Multi-touch Touchpad support for facilities such as zooming images or website.

Monitor

Towards the audience is business people should understand Vostro V130 equipped with anti-glare screen difference compared with the glass display on the popular laptop. Model for a very wide viewing angle approaching 170 degrees when viewed from the side where the colors are not altered. However, vertical viewing angle from the bottom up or top down is a little narrow, if broken down monitor and watched the screen angle of about 50 degrees from the perpendicular, the image is dark, the dark color is altered slightly .

Testing whether a standard HD video experience on the Vostro V130 pretty good with bright color and contrast at acceptable levels. With a 13.3 inch screen with resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels can be considered sufficient to be able to track content across multiple sites or software without the fear of the text is too small.

Performance

Configure the Vostro V130 test model includes an Intel Core i5-470U speed 1.33 GHz, 4GB Ram. The system earned a score of 4426 using PCMark Vantage program for evaluation, nearly 1,400 points higher than predecessor, V13 and about 700 points higher than the average of the ultraportable same range of money on the market today.

500GB Hard drive speed of 7200 revolutions / minute 2 minutes 33 seconds in the test copy a folder containing music files and video capacity with 4.97 GB speed 33.3 MB / sec. This result 3MB/giay faster than average and faster than about 0.5 MB / sec compared to a sample other ultraportable 13-inch screen is the Toshiba Portege R700. However, there are slightly longer startup time to one minute 46 seconds with operating system Windows 7 Professional.

Using the integrated graphics chip Intel HD Graphics, V130 achieve 3D Mark 1147 points with 06 while the V13 is only achieved when using chip 554 4500MHD GPU. However, the V130's score is not impressive when about 200 points less than the average score on the ultra portable laptop now. test World of Warcraft gaming system running at 13 frames per second with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels with High Quality settings.

V130 using wireless card Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN wireless card. At a distance of nearly 5 meters from the broadcast Wi-Fi, data transfer speed of the machine is 25.6 Mb / sec. Meanwhile, at a distance of 15 meters, the rate drops to 15.7 Mb / sec.

Part 3: Radiator, battery, audio

Sound

Because entertainment is not the primary goal should be the speaker on the V130 for quality only average. Large volume of the machine, but the bass is not clear and can not make sense "enough" for users. When you turn the volume level of 100% in both media player and Windows, although difficult to detect but can still sound a bit shy even on high-quality music files.

Duration battery

In testing web surfing, music playback, wi-fi enabled, turn on volume and screen brightness at about 50% the machine can run continuously for approximately 3 hours.

Heat dissipation capability

The thin laptop is often not appreciated by the ability to heat the space inside the limit is difficult to escape the heat. However, the Vostro V130 is the first model of Dell technology cooling cycle Hyperbaric Cooling with outdoor air suction into the machine to cool the components instead of just pushing hot air through the radiator gap as the normal.

Testing a video player Full HD resolution in about half an hour at room temperature about 22 degrees C, the machine's touchpad has measured temperature is 25 degrees C, radiate more heat between the keys G and H keys are about 31 degrees and the average temperature in the entire bottom may be 32 degrees. With this temperature, the user can comfortably use even on both feet without feeling uncomfortable. Parameters do indeed show that V130 with a new cooling technology makes cooling more impressive than the V13.

You can find this laptop in Amazon: Dell Vostro V13 1.30GHz Core2Duo U7300 2GB 320GB WiFi BT 3G WebCam 13.3" Wled Windows 7 Home Premium DELLV13VZ

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