Dell Vostro 1500, Intel Core 2 Duo T5470 , 2GB RAM, 80GB SATA HDD, 8X CD/DVD Burner, 128MB NVIDIA Video Card, 15.4″ Wide XGA LCD, 802.11g Wi

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   farhaddad on December 17, 2009 at 5:07 pm

   I’ve got this laptop from dell’s website 3 years ago when it and core 2 was first released. The quality of this laptop is very good. I also added the following features to it: firewire, webcam, bluetooth, 120GB HD and 9 cells battery which still has a capacity of 3:50 hours when running under high performance settings.

   There’s nothing I can say about specifications other than that I’m using Windows 7 on it now which is a bit lighter than Vista Business that came installed on this laptop. The Media button feature is nice but I rarely use it, specially that unlike Vista, Windows 7 has Media center built in it’s business version.

   This laptop is heavy and it gets really hot to a level that you can’t put it on your lap. So if you are looking for a mobile laptop, you need to look somewhere esle.

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   Jon W on December 17, 2009 at 5:41 pm

   My 2-month old Dell Vostro laptop has been a problem since day one. It would not play DVDs or load DVD-based software. When I called tech support, their solution was to load a different DVD player, which did not work, either. After spending an additional 4 hours on the phone with tech support, they decided that I needed to reload the operating system. Somehow, it became my responsibility. They said it would take 2 – 3 hours on the phone with them for me to do that. I’m not that computer savvy, so I took it to a Dell authorized repair shop. They can get the laptop to work with Vista, but I paid $99 extra for the XP “downgrade”. I don’t want Vista. The repair shop could never get it to work correctly with XP. They called Dell, and Dell told them that it was a software issue and that they would not honor the warranty, or take the computer back for repair. So now, I have a laptop that doesn’t function and a warranty that is basically worthless. Don’t buy a Dell – you’ll be sorry.

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   D. Hentze on December 17, 2009 at 8:04 pm

   I’ve had my Vostro 1500 for about 9 months now, and it’s worked perfectly. I bought it with a fast Intel Penryn Processor, 3GB of RAM, nVidia 8600M GT video card, and Windows Vista. The Vostro 1500 is built like a tank, and pretty heavy. That might be a negative to some, but I like to know it can handle the everyday use I put it through. This is my 5th Dell notebook, and I’ve never had a major problem with any of them. The 1500 has since been replaced by the 1510. IMO, it is not nearly as well built as the 1500. You can still find the 1500 around, and IMO it is still a great notebook that’s more than fast enough for most of today’s uses, except heavy gaming.
   

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   *** on December 17, 2009 at 8:51 pm

   Be aware that if you want to upgrade or replace your hard drive, unlike most other laptops on the market, you must do a total teardown including the removal of the motherboard in order to replace it. This is ridiculous and evidence of very poor design judgment. The same is true of the A860.

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   Lisa Shea on December 17, 2009 at 10:50 pm

   The Dell Vostro 1500 comes in a few configurations. I have the setup with 2 gig of RAM and a duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00 GHz. I’m running Windows Vista on it, which I love.

   My previous laptop was a Sony Vaio which had an awesome screen display but was as heavy as a full set of weights. OK, I exaggerate – slightly. It was massively heavy, and loud, and the keyboard had issues. I finally gave that to a college student to use as a small desktop machine and upgraded myself to this Dell Vostro 1500.

   I have been using my Dell Vostro for just over a year now. I am VERY pleased with it. It is light, quiet, the screen display is great, and it has been incredibly reliable. I pound on my laptop for hours every day, doing a ton of typing. I run websites from my home. Any time I travel my laptop goes with me and I am on it several hours a day from my remote location. The Dell has never caused me any issues at all.

   The screen display is great. I do a fair amount of graphics work, including judging photo entries for a literary magazine. The Dell’s screen lets me accurately view colors and see images with sharp clarity.

   I do video game testing and have tested several games out on this laptop – everything works quite fine. I haven’t run into any issues.

   The touch mousepad area works quite fine. I use it constantly during the day and while I do get the occasional “jump” it is no different than any other laptop I’ve used in that regard.

   Really, there is only one minor issue I’ve ever had with this laptop. If I am wearing shorts and have the laptop sitting on the bare skin of my legs, every once in a while I will get a sharp pain in my leg, as if it was zapped by something. I have to believe that there’s some sort of metal or something that creates an electrical circuit and zaps me. It’s not an every fifteen minute thing – more like a once every two or three days thing. Still, it’s annoying enough that I have to find a throw to put between my legs and the laptop to keep it from happening. So I would warn people not to use the laptop on bare skin unless they enjoy that type of sensation.

   Still, an awesome laptop and one that has really shown its worth over the past year. Highly recommended!