JoeyN Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 I just got a dell inspiron 8500 this week. It is a excellent laptop with lots of power. Its meant as a desktop replacement for the most part. It has 15.4 inch widescreen display P4 2.4 512 mb ram 60 gig HD 64 mb nvidia graphic card(the newer laptop card) 24x combo cd-rw/dvd drive wireless card The battery lasts around 3 hours for normal comp use. i havent tried a full dvd yet to see how long the battery will last. But you can also get a spare main battery, or for non interuppted play back you can get a second battery for the modular bay. Everything in here is upgradable as dell has slots for pretty much everything to pop out of Like i said I highly recommend this system. But wait for good dell deals. When i ordered mine the deal was good, then last week sucked and this week is good again. capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackcalx Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 I have an Inspiron 7500, purchased almost three years ago, and it has been a great laptop. For awhile it went with me everywhere from school to work to home and back again. I never had any trouble with it (once I uninstalled Windows ME, that is). It even survived a soda spill (with some chemical intervention) with no side effects other than one sometimes sticky key. I'm not mobile any more so I'm trying to sell it and use the money to build a second desktop for my wife, but I would look to Dell the next time I needed another laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted August 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 I got the laptop pretty much for using it all over our house and our yard, as well as a portable dvd player. I still have my desktop system as i have all my printers, scanners, video editing stuff and so on hooked up to it capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted August 3, 2003 Report Share Posted August 3, 2003 Nice laptop Joey, just too bad on the OS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre F Posted August 3, 2003 Report Share Posted August 3, 2003 Nice machine! Enjoy it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted August 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2003 xp is actually good. havent had any problems with it on any of the systems in the house. At least i can watch dvd-rom extras :-) capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted August 3, 2003 Report Share Posted August 3, 2003 At least i can watch dvd-rom extras You can keep em too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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