DELL Chromebook 3100 price in Australia starts from A$1,923.00. This Intel Celeron N powered by Chromebook laptop is an absolute workhorse and loved by many professional users and students in Australia due to its 42 Wh battery with very decent battery life and 4 GB LPDDR4-SDRAM memory.
Let's have look at some of the Key Pros & Cons of this laptop model to compare if this is really worthy of A$1,923.00
Design and Built quality
From top view, the laptop is 303.9 mm of width and 207.9 mm height and total thickness of 2.08 cm. being in those dimensions the laptop weights only 1.29 kg
Display
DELL Chromebook 3100 has a very nice and compact 11.6 inch display which makes it perfect for everyday business professional who are always on the run. Having a 11.6 inch HD display with 1366 x 768 pixels is good for portability and affordability, but for the most part if you want to get the best out of this, you will have to use an external display.
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Performance
Processor :
This DELL laptop comes with slow processor. 1.11.1 Intel Celeron N N4020 would be a minimum requirement for any application available inAustralia. Using DELL utility software, you can boost the processor speed up to 1.1GHz.
Having 2 cores with 4MB cache memory would be ok for running 2 or 3 applications simultaneously.
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RAM :
Having just 4 GB, this Laptop doesn't have sufficient memory to run most of the heavy applications or games. even the newer version of operating systems requires more than 3GB memory. LPDDR4-SDRAM means that it requires less power consumption than DDR3 or other RAM types. is average clock speed for most of the RAMs. which means it can store and retrieve data much faster than other RAM types. when Graphics card built in memory is insufficient, system uses RAM for memory. Having a faster Clock speed will make syncing that data much faster.
This DELL laptop has RAM slots on the board, so you can upgrade memory up to 4 GB.
Graphics :
This Laptop doesn't have a dedicated Graphics card. it has on-board Intel UHD Graphics 600 graphihcs chip with which you can do usual light work. but for gaming or any heavy graphics oriented work. this laptop is not the best.
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Storage :
Primary disk of this laptop is a 16 GB eMMC. This is also compatible with storage. It doesn't have a buit-in CD/DVD Rom so you will have to use an external device if you plan to use CDs or DVDs.
ports & Connectivity :
Laptop comes with Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Bluetooth version connectivity. with WIFI 5 (802.11ac) You would get around 3.5Gbps but now that understand that there are laptops with WIFI 6 which can transfer Data more than 10Gbps. This laptop doesn't have an Ethernet Port so you will have to use a converter if you need to connect using Ethernet.
It has 2 USB Type-A ports which is nice as most of the USB devices use this type of ports.
This DELL laptop doesn't have any USB Type-C ports which can be adeal breaker for some people who are looking for that extra power. It doesn't have Thunderbolt supported ports. Thunderbolt 3 lets you transfer data at up to 40Gbps.
It doesn't have HDMI port for video output which could be an issue if you are planing to use another monitor or do business presentations.Laptop is charged using port.
Camera :
Built-in camera in this laptop is a 1 MP HD with 1280 x 720 pixels image resolution. Which would be decent enough for your video calls.
Battery :
42 Wh is not a big battery capacity so you will not be able to use the laptop more than 2 or 3 hours on battery power. DELL Chromebook 3100 has a Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery which weights around 200 g. This is light weighted. DELL has done a greate job making it lighter to reduce overal weight of the laptop. Battery is charged with 65 W power adepter using port. It takes around to fully charge the battery.
Price Analysis
The best and lowest price for DELL Chromebook 3100 in Australia is A$1,923.00 from umart.com.au, Mansfield, QLD , which is A$36.00 (2%) less than the highest price listed here for DELL Chromebook 3100, price from harveynorman.com.au, Alice Springs, NT which is at (A$1,959.00) .. You can find DELL Chromebook 3100 for the above stated price range in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Newcastle, Canberra, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Townsville in Australia
