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Dell OptiPlex Series 4 DT, SFF and USFF Chassis. OptiPlex (a portmanteau of "optimal" and "-plex") is a line of business-oriented desktop and all-in-one computers made for corporate enterprises, healthcare, the government, and education markets.
Acquired by Dell: Xerox — United States: 1969: 2014: Exited the computer business: Xybernaut — United States: 1990: 2005: Bankruptcy: Zenith Data Systems: Zenith Electronics (1979–1991) Groupe Bull (1991–1996) United States: 1979: 1996: Acquired by Groupe Bull in 1991; sold to NEC in 1996, who merged it into Packard Bell [18] Zeos ...
Both the Dell Inspiron 580 and Dell Inspiron 580s have one 5.25-inch bay for an optical drive, one 3.5-inch FlexBay for an optional Media Card Reader and two 3.5-inch bays for SATA hard drives that are internally accessible. The Dell Inspiron 580 uses a 300W power supply while the Dell Inspiron 580s uses a 250w power supply.
Dell was the subject of a class action lawsuit in 2005 over some of their Inspiron laptops (models affected include the 1100, 1150, 5100, 5150, and 5160). The suit was filed in September 2005, and was officially settled between December 2006 and January 2007, in what is known as the Lundell Settlement. [ 8 ]
BIOS interrupt calls perform hardware control or I/O functions requested by a program, return system information to the program, or do both. A key element of the purpose of BIOS calls is abstraction - the BIOS calls perform generally defined functions, and the specific details of how those functions are executed on the particular hardware of the system are encapsulated in the BIOS and hidden ...
Dell became aware that the problem was limited to NVIDIA chip production, the BIOS was updated to A12 which improves thermal control but does not prevent it from reoccurring. The problem associated with NVIDIA GPUs was the chip material used could not stand high temperatures.
Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) is an interconnect standard for GPUs (MXM Graphics Modules) in laptops using PCI Express created by MXM-SIG. The goal was to create a non-proprietary, industry standard socket, so one could easily upgrade the graphics processor in a laptop, without having to buy a whole new system or relying on proprietary vendor upgrades.
The Dell Inspiron series is a line of laptop computers made by American company Dell under the Dell Inspiron branding. The first Inspiron laptop model was introduced before 1999. [ 1 ] Unlike the Dell Latitude line, which is aimed mostly at business/enterprise markets, Inspiron is a consumer-oriented line, often marketed towards individual ...