The Dell Inspiron 11z notebook featuring a dual-core Pentium processor is revealed to possess a significant power compared to a netbook's CPU, with its high-resolution 1366x768 screen making it a great choice for Web browsing and viewing high-definition videos.

The notebook comes for an affordable price tag, a thin profile apart from 11.6in screen - it could easily be mistaken for an Intel Atom-powered netbook.

This laptop is revealed to weighs a mere 1.4kg, possessing a standard 3-cell battery and is a little more than 2.5cm thick, making it easily adapted to a backpack or satchel.

It comes in seven colors including cherry red, pastel green and traditional black.

Its three USB ports are featured at the sides, a 10/100 Ethernet network socket, an HDMI port and a 3-in-1 card reader - there is no optical drive or ExpressCard socket.

Moreover, it offers an outstanding media encoding performance.

It hardly consumes 3min 37sec to encode 53min worth of WAV files to 192Kbps MP3s, which is on par with other entry-level notebooks and significantly faster than Intel Atom-based netbooks.