The slim Dell Inspiron 531s is a small-form-factor desktop that doesn't exact a price penalty for its size. It comes with a fairly powerful processor, 2GB of system memory (important in these ...

Dell's colourful new Inspiron and XPS are the talk of the laptop world, but the company also has a few new desktops it would like you to crave. It's all part of the 'revamped' Inspiron consumer range, ...

The Dell Inspiron 531s shows where value desktops are heading: small but loaded. PROS 2GB of RAM. Discrete graphics card. Option for no pre-installed bloatware. Nice, space-saving design. CONS DVD-ROM ...

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I bought a used Dell Inspiron 8000 that has a P3 550MHZ CPU in it about a year ago. This thing is starting to feel really slow. I have 258MB of RAM, which I could upgrade to 512MB, but I was thinking ...

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As a microtower, the Inspiron is appreciably smaller than a mid-tower desktop at 12.8 by 6.1 by 11.5 inches (HWD). Some mini-towers are even trimmer—the HP Slim Desktop (S01-aF0020) is 10.6 by 3.7 by ...