For our first foray in comparing laptops head to head, we feature the Hewlett Packard ProBook 4510s versus the Dell Inspiron 15. The HP ProBook 4510s is marketed as a budget business notebook for small and medium businesses. The Dell Inspiron 15, on the other hand, is being marketed as a mainstream multimedia notebook.

Setting aside the niche that their respective companies are targeting them for, these laptops share many things in common – size, processing abilities, standard features and price range.

HP PROBOOK 4510s

Let’s have a look first at the HP ProBook 4510s.

Packed with a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and pre-installed Windows Vista operating system, the ProBook 4510s can take on normal business tasks with ease. Basic video editing is not much of a problem; however, this is still no multi-media or gamers device. That is why the user who wants to edit HD videos or play graphics-rich games would be advised to purchase something else.

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