Customer Reviews

Dell D600 Laptop (1.6ghz, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW)

5 star:		(19)
4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(26)

 

 

This is a great laptop for the price. It functions beautifully for basic use (school, work, surfing the web, etc.). I have had absolutely no trouble with mine, and would highly recommend this product to everyday users.

I've seen a couple of bad reviews simply because users purchased this computer with the intent to make it their "gaming" computer, and then were disappointed with the outcome. Check the specs and your game requirements first. If you truly want a gaming computer, you probably shouldn't be looking at Laptops in the first place.

It's a great computer at a reasonable price. If you just need something for work, school, and surfing the web, it's perfect.

Decent product however I bought the laptop from BRAVTEK and I got cheated on the deal. He sold me a defective product and refused to fix it. Be careful shopping for laptops and by all means avoid the above vendor.

This laptop is so awesome. I've always had a desktop, so I'm excited that I was able to purchase a laptop at such an inexpensive price. First of all, it's advertised as having 512MB RAM and a 40GB hard drive. Well, I got 1G of RAM and a 60 GB hard drive. Secondly, it works so well, as if it's new. And thirdly, for this to have been a refurbished computer, it looks good with very little to no scratches. Several people's comments have not been to pleasing, but I would blame the seller, not the laptop. I didn't purchase the cheapest one. I read all of the sellers' comments and chose the one I thought would give me an honest buy. I am very happy with my purchase.

I put up with my first Dell Latitude D600 for about a year before finally just throwing it away. After maybe 3 months of owning it, at least 6 of the keys fell off, the battery stopped working, and I was not able to pick up wireless connections. It died three times during the time period that I owned it, and after replacing the hard drive twice and the fan once, I realized that it just wasn't worth trying to "fix" anymore.

Unfortunately, I received the exact same model of laptop as a gift after my previous one died. This confirmed my belief that this model is an absolute piece of crap. I have owned it less than a year, and the battery does not work, the power cord falls out all the time, a key has fallen off, and I have already had it sent off twice for repairs on the hard drive. Recently, it physically fell into two pieces; the screen just detached from the keyboard and now it's utterly useless and will not turn on.

I handled these laptops responsibly. They always sat either on my desk or on my lap and I never took them out of my home. I used them mostly for surfing the net and photo-editing, rarely downloaded anything, and did not clog it up with loads of pictures and music (it could only handle about 10 folders of music before being completely full anyway). If you want a laptop that falls apart and constantly breaks from normal use, then this is the one for you.

I ordered a Dell Inspiron laptop 1 1/2 years ago and it worked great until recently. The screen went black and the system would not start. Turned out that the video card had failed.

I contacted Dell customer support to activate my next business day warranty and after more than a week I have gotten nowhere with them. My claim has been "escalated" twice with the same excuses and refusal to fix the problem. They claim they have no video cards in stock and I will have to wait 2-3 weeks for a replacement card, 2-3 weeks for a loaner system, or 2-3 weeks for a replacement system -- basically my NEXT DAY warranty is anything but.

I explained that this is a mission critical system and a 2-3 week delay is unacceptable given the high price I paid for the next day warranty. I offered to take another make or model of graphics card and even offered to go buy the card myself if the agreed to pay for it.

They refused to help in any way. So, I am left with a useless laptop for 2-3 weeks until it becomes convenient for them to honor the warranty. I will never buy another Dell product again and recommend that others who are not technically experienced with fixing computers or that need a "mission critical" system that they look elsewhere because Dell cannot be relied upon to fix broken systems in a timely manner.

I adore mine.
I'm not a gamer or anything of the sort, I just use mine for internet purposes and college, and it's perfect. It lags a bit, which is annoying, but should be expected with the low price. Overall, I like it a lot.

I ordered a refurbished D600 from Dell Financial Services 3 years ago. It was a good solid laptop while I had it. Mine had 1gb of RAM and a CD/DVDROM (no burner). Mine also did not come with an XP CD or any recovery disc at all. I had an old Windows 2000 CD, so I loaded that. I tried upgrading it to Vista Home Basic. It was way slow, even with 1gb of RAM. I ran Server 2003 and Server 2008 on it for a while, to study for certification exams. I also ran Fedora and Ubuntu Linux for a while. It even ran a hackintosh version of OS X fairly well. I think the hard drive started going bad after I reformatted it so many times. I replaced the hard drive with a spare 20gb drive. This drive was tpo small for Vista, Office and all the latest patches. I went back to Windows 2000, because it was small and ran the best. I never tried it with XP, because Dell did not include the XP CD with my purchase. This was a great laptop for learning different operating systems in a test environment.

I did have a few problems with this laptop. First, the CD/DVD drive had problems booting from CDs after a while. DVDs seemed to boot ok. Second, the hard drive starget going bad. I think I just wore it out. It was easy enough to replace myself. Third, way slow with Windows Vista. I agree with the other reviewers who said it's too slow to be a gaming computer.

My biggest complaint with the D600, is that it's so darn heavy. It weighs almost 5 1/2 lbs, or over 6 lbs if you include the charger. That's just too heavy to lug around when I'm traveling. I sold it to a friend for a very good price and ordered a Dell Mini 9 netbook to take traveling. The 2.2 lb Netbook is way more convenient to take traveling. By the way, most Netbooks have a 1.6ghz processor compared to the 1.4ghz processor in the D600. Sometimes I miss the 14 inch screen, but the Netbooks small size, lightweight and portablity more than make up for it.

This is a fantastic laptop, It is a business machine and it has everything you need to conduct business on the road.

I highly recommend this laptop.

Thomas Gloudemans
A1 Computer Serices

I bought two computers on the same day from two different sellers, one was from StarTech and the other from Alpha. Both computers were described identically with one exception; the one from Alpha advertised the unit included MicroSoft Pro. So I paid more for that unit from Alpha. I received the unit from StarTech and it was great, plugged it in, started right up and looks and works like new. A week later I received the one from Alpha, with paperwork enclosed describing some other computer without internet card or any programs installed as advertised not to mention the unit appeared to have been in a war zone physically, plugged it in and it wouldn't work. Contacted the seller who immediately offered to sell me an internet card to make the unit work and did not acknowledge the missing programs or the misleading information in the advertisement. I took the unit to a REAL Dell tech who put a wireless card in the unit and found the unit defective. I immediately notified the seller that I believe I must have received the wrong unit by accident that I wanted a good one and I would return this one at my own expense, which I did. The seller was rude, called me a liar and went as far to send emails threatening to keep me from getting a refund for the defective unit. I would NEVER do business with this seller again, his ego is bigger than his brain and he has no people skills. I did receive my refund, thanks to Amazon, I am out the cost of the Dell service call and expense to ship and insure the defective unit, but that is a small price to pay to break all ties with a seller like this one. I am corresponding with Dell right now about this experience.

I got this thing used a few years ago; now, I'm a 16 year-old, and my primary use for computers is writing, storing my photos, and gaming. This laptop is pretty decent (especially for the price) for the first two of my purposes, but for gaming, it was way, way below par. We had to buy numerous upgrades for it to even run World of Warcraft on top of my pictures (they take up a lot of memory).

BOTTOM LINE: If you're looking for a low-key laptop and you don't need much memory, this is a nice little piece of hardware.