Monday, July 27th 2009
Dell Churns Out AMD-based Inspiron 546
Dell introduced its first AMD-based mainstream PC lineup in over 18 months. The company had stopped announcing AMD-based products as its CPU lineup were losing in competitiveness. The Inspiron 546, as American-Statesman's Kirk Ladendorf notes, "could signal a shift in the ongoing relationship between Dell and AMD, which has gone through warm and cold spells in recent years." Inspiron 546 represents one of Dell's most important desktop PC SKUs, that is extensively promoted online.
Priced in the US $270~$710 range, Inspiron 546 models come in four main configurations, featuring Sempron, Athlon X2, Phenom X3, and Phenom X4 processors, with ATI Radeon HD 3200 series graphics. The chassis comes with 8 colour bezel types to choose from. It can further be customised with a variety of Dell monitors, HDD capacities, and memory amounts.
Source:
American-Statesman
Priced in the US $270~$710 range, Inspiron 546 models come in four main configurations, featuring Sempron, Athlon X2, Phenom X3, and Phenom X4 processors, with ATI Radeon HD 3200 series graphics. The chassis comes with 8 colour bezel types to choose from. It can further be customised with a variety of Dell monitors, HDD capacities, and memory amounts.
21 Comments on Dell Churns Out AMD-based Inspiron 546
A note though: There seems to be a typo on Dell's site. Header reads 20" but the specs and config page both peg it at 19", which seems a bit more likely.
That's so random. :confused:
They have the 7750 available, seriously the 7750 is a great chip. 90% of PC users dont need anything more than dual core, quad core is mostly a gimmic to get average joe to think it will be faster because it has 4 cores, man... however it does have its uses, like AutoCAD and Photoshop
I wouldn't mind getting one for a linux box or just to mess around with.
Glad to see Dell releasing comps with AMD
Ati's drivers are a Cluster**** for Linux still. My x1800xl, x1600, and x850xt are all out of date for the latest xorg.
With a PII, I'd be very interested. Unfortunately I fall into that other 10%.
But you have to have a pretty good order size(Lol Dell semi docked at our warehouse) to get the "awesome" stuff :roll:
That's the same with any company though.
I was able to push for what I wanted software-wise (Vista Biz with 7 Upgrade) regardless of machine, but they wouldn't budge on most hardware.
Great minds.