Suggestions on a Dell Laptop

[A//// Guy]

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.

[scheides]

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.

[scheides]

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

[gstjoker]

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

[92EvilTalon]

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