Dell Inspiron E1705 Laptop

by Dell

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds
• ASIN: B000VMH99C
• Item model number: E 1705
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,995 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 7, 2008

Product Description

ORIGINALLY PURCHASED FOR 1800$. It is a silver with white trimed DELL INSPIRON E1705 Notebook. This rather large laptop is equipped with a 17" TFT active matrix WUXGA display, powerful Intel Core Duo processor at up to 2.0GHz, up to 4GB DDR2 RAM, wireless LAN, and (6) USB 2.0 ports WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM. Purchased a year ago, and in very impeccable condition. Havent had any problems with it ever, downlaods programs and does everything extremely fast, and has just been uploaded with a 2 year warranty with Kaspersky Anti-virus software. Also includes a hewlet packard printer.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great for me, January 27, 2010

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N. Rao "Mister Sister" (Arlington, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dell Inspiron E1705 Laptop (Personal Computers)

I have not have the misfortune of experiencing the problems that others have had with this laptop. I've had mine for 3 years, and it's still working great. I haven't pushed it with 3D gaming or anything, but it's handled everything I've asked it to do. No hardware failures. No crashes. I'm a software engineer, so I've used a lot of computers, and this has been one of the most stable.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another Dell Disaster, April 6, 2009

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Roger W. Meyer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dell Inspiron E1705 Laptop (Personal Computers)

I also had the misfortune of purchasing this laptop based on generally favorable reviews. My Inspiron E1705 hard drive crashed within 12-months of purchase destroying all contents. It was in warranty and Dell fixed it. I assumed the faulty hardware was just a fluke and everything would be fine after the repair. A few months later the AC adapter stopped working. Dell sold me another cable for $100 as it wasn't a "standard" model. Six months later the laptop crashed again once again destroying all contents. Mind you the laptop was lightly used and never left the house. Rather than taking the professional high road and resolving the problem once and for all, Dell was quick to remind me that laptop was out of warranty. I spent $1,400 for this? The next few weeks were a nightmare, including hours of unhelpful scripted technicians, misdirected calls, departmental runarounds, frustrating and incomprehensible foreign accents. After weeks of this, the issue is finally escalated to a supervisor who agrees that Dell products should not fail like this within 18 months. He promises to call back and correct the problem. He never does. I try again to get through the call center maze again but to no avail. I gave up and went out and bought a Mac. The moral: this product comes with low-quality hardware. It is a serious customer risk. Given Dell's inability to respond to a legitimate customer issue I would say any Dell product is a serious customer risk. At this juncture I would also be wary of any favorable or fair magazine reviews of their products given their sizable advertising budgets they bring to print and web media.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars First and last Dell product I will ever purchase, July 23, 2008

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Darnell Gillead - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dell Inspiron E1705 Laptop (Personal Computers)

This laptop was the biggest waste of money ever. I might as well have went outside, put the $1000 I spent on this piece of junk in a pile, and set it on fire. Since I've bought it I've had nothing but issues with it. The latest one is the built in speakers have simply stopped working. Now I get to call up Dell customer support and try to figure out what the guy on the other line is trying to say to me for the next 2 and a half hours.