Suggestions on a Dell Laptop
 

Well, I've been thinking about getting a laptop for awhile now and decided to see what you guys would suggest. I get a discount through Dell so I think I'm going to go with a Dell. This will be used for school work, pictures, home made videos, mostly entertainment stuff and school work. Any ideas on how fast of a processor I should get such as 2.0 ghz or such. How much memory will be enough? I like the idea of wireless too so some ideas in that field would be great. Who knows? Maybe later down the road when I decide to get Dsmlink, I might even use the laptop for that. How about the os? I like to try the new Vista but haven't been hearing too many things about them so if not Vista, then back to Xp of course.

Any ideas, suggestion, or comments would be great.

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I would do a lot of shopping around. The Dell discounts usually aren't any better or worse than you can get with coupons. I would go at least 2.0ghz, 2gb memory and a 7200 rpm HD. The rest is pretty much frills and you can add on anything else you need. You might want to upgrade the wireless card while you are at it.

Check this place out for some great deals, www.slickdeals.net

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As a whole, Dell computers are junk, especially their laptops. My suggestion: find a better brand if the cash is coming out of your pocket.

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Here is my thread on my Dell.

http://dsmstyle.com/forums/showthrea...ht=dell+laptop

I love it, it's been 100% perfect for daily use and abuse.

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My dad has a Dell and hasn't had any problems with it. Has had it for about 1.5 years now.

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I bought the Inspiron E1705 last summer off of eBay and love it, haven't had a single problem with it either. Its a core duo, they came out with the core duo 2s like a month after I bought mine. :(

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I agree.

I have had my Dell Inspirion 600m for about 4 years now. It has been flawless. Not sure about the current models but if I were shopping for a new one I would look into a Dell again. I am due for a new battery though, it only lasts about 40 minutes now, which isnt bad for a 4 yr old machine but it could be better.

Keep in mind their tech support is in the US again! If you ever need to use it.

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Dude..... Your getting a dell

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I LOVE my dell and their support. In fact it's in getting warranty work done to it right now, however it's not Dell's fault it broke. I overclocked my Nvidia video card and they have problems breaking anyway.

The laptop though has been great, this is the 2nd Dell laptop I've owned and plan on getting a new one once the DX10 cards come out.

Just get the E1505 laptop, with around a 2GHz core duo 2 CPU and 1GB of RAM. If you're going to use it for gaming get the one I have (E1705) with a 7900GS and the nice screen (1900x1200) and you will NOT be sorry. Get either of those with the minimum memory and get the rest at newegg and save about 50-100 dollars. 1-2GB of RAM should be great for your needs. Try to get a 7200RPM drive too, they're worth the extra money in speed.

Oh and get the bluetooth card, there's lots of uses for having bluetooth on your laptop.

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I have an upper level dell with the Duo Core...yadda yadda... I love it! Not one single problem and I have owned it for about a year now.

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Yea nothing wrong with Dells at all.. Thats all we have at work and they are pretty good. Great deals on stuff as well, but if Im going to get a laptop it will be a IBM, sorry... lenova.

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Dell Servers are awesome, PC's are ok, and their laptops are generally garbage. I have yet to see one that is made anywhere nearly as well as my macbook, an IBM, or decent Compaq/HP laptop.

I see them brake often enough to tell you that you should not buy one.

That is all.

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Actually, go ahead and buy one. But if you do, get stabbed for the 3 year warranty, because you will for SURE need it.

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Well, instead of getting a laptop like how I originally wanted to, my old home computer decided to go out on me. I guess you can't expect much from a 10 year old computer so I decided to get a Desktop insetad. This computer is just for my family to use, nothing special. Just thought I post it up see what you guys think. I bought it already and it's on order to be shipped. Total was like $1,XXX something but they had a special coupon for $300 something off anything over 1k. Total came up to be only $730 shipped w/3 year warranty on parts, labor I think and 3 years on security suite. Ignore the price listed below. I just copied and pasted everything over.

1 222-8529 DIM E520,Intel Pentium D Dual Core Processor 935(3.2GHz 800FSB) with 4MB Cache $682.63
1 311-6462 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz $0.00
1 310-8164 Dell USB KEYBOARD $0.00
1 310-7965 Dell USB 2-button mouse $0.00
1 320-5176 Video ready w/o Monitor, DIM Pentium D, Core 2 Duo $0.00
1 320-5089 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro $0.00
1 341-4211 250GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM) $0.00
1 341-3867 Dell 13 in 1 Media Card Reader $0.00
1 420-4834 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition,Service Pack 2,English $0.00
1 420-4927 Windows Media Player 10 $0.00
1 420-5924 Icon Consolidation Application $0.00
1 420-5769 Internet Search and Portal $0.00
1 412-0688 Image Restore $0.00
1 412-0911 Dell Support $0.00
1 463-2282 Dell Owners Manual installed on your system,click on icon after system set-up to access $0.00
1 310-8547 Backup media for XP Home Dimension E520 $0.00
1 310-8617 Thank you for choosing Dell $0.00
1 310-1966 Mouse included in Dell Wireless or Bluetooth Package $0.00
1 430-0441 Integrated 10/100 Ethernet $0.00
1 313-4427 56K PCI Data Fax Modem $0.00
1 412-0914 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 $0.00
1 313-4579 16X DVD+/-RW Drive $0.00
1 420-5790 Roxio Creator Basic/MyDVD Basic $0.00
1 420-5781 Sonic Cineplayer $0.00
1 313-2758 Integrated Audio $0.00
1 313-2198 No Speaker Requested $0.00
1 462-3905 I chose the promotional security package with service $0.00
1 412-0787 AOL for Broadband $0.00
1 412-0934 Earthlink $0.00
1 412-0935 NETZERO ISP $0.00
1 412-0912 MS WORKS 8.5 $0.00
1 950-3339 3 Year Limited Warranty $0.00
1 985-1149 Dell Hardware Warranty PlusOnsite Service, Extended Year $0.00
1 970-6542 Type 15- Third Party At Home Service with Nights and Wee kends, 24x7 Technical Support,2 Year Extended $0.00
1 985-1148 Dell Hardware Warranty PlusOnsite Service, Initial Year $0.00
1 980-3040 Type 15- Third Party At Home Service with Nights and Weeke ends, 24x7 Technical Support, Initial Year $0.00
1 412-0359 Soft Contracts - Qualxserve $0.00
1 950-5462 Warranty Support,2 Year Extended $13
1 960-2800 Warranty Support,Initial Year $0.00
1 420-6592 Network Associates McAfee 8.0 English, 3-Year Subscription $0.00

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Not bad for what you got. Granted all that extra stuff is installed. but good choice on XP home! Hope you love your Dell.