Customer Reviews

Dell M109s On-the-go DLP Projector - 50 ANSI lumens - SVGA (858 x 600) - Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - Contrast Ratio 800:1 - Pocket-sized

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I got mine for 299 from Dell web site. That's still a hefty price - wait 5 years and you will find better ones for 99. I am an artist and I work by projecting color slides on my paper or canvas. I have needed to go digital for a long time, but the standard laptop projectors are big, heavy, noisy, expensive, and too bright. The new little ones either don't connect to a laptop or get terrible reviews. This one is just right. It's also fun to project movies on the bedroom wall, but remember, the brightness is 50 lumens, and your standard video projector is about 2,000, so you want total darkness and it's still not the same. The projector is tiny, light and quiet, and has a lot of nifty sophisticated electronics, BUT THERE'S NO TRIPOD SCREW SOCKET!!!, the cables and connectors are bulky and awkward, the cord to the laptop is only 2' long (get an extension) but it's the best one on the market so far.

I really like this projector. I am a teacher and this has been really helpful in my classroom. It is very small and compact which is great since I need to set it up every day. It has a quality picture and the screen size is adequate. The only things I don't like about it is that it does not have a keystone for adjusting the screen up or down so that has to be done manually. Further, for it to be used properly, the classroom must be dark which makes teaching from the textbook a little interesting. Overall though, this is a great product and I would recommend it to any teacher or business professional that makes presentations to small groups.

I bought this projector to use for work. I was looking for something that would work for a conference room style presentation in the office that was still small and lightweight for travel. While the projector is very small and compact (it even comes with its own case!), it is just not going to work for me. The light is not bright enough and the projection resolution is not clear enough to show anything with numbers on it. So if your presentation is mostly PowerPoints in large type, this projector will work for you!

I bought this projector to use in my classroom. It is small enough to be carried with my laptop in the same backpack. The quality is very good if you do not have much light. I think it is a good choice in compact projector, since you be aware that the result is not good in bright places.

When I first purchased this projector, I like the small compact size due to extensive traveling. The brightness is not very good and is hard to read when using for a larger group. I've also been looking for a replacement bulb and even Dell doesn't have one available. I would recommend purchasing another projector that will work with the heavy usage I need.

Have had the pro. jector for almost a year now and still really like it. The size makes it incredibly portable, wish the case was large enough to hold all the cords that came with it.

The projector is small and very portable. Very easy to connect. Sometimes the luminance isn't enough and you have to turn off the lights. So it wouldn't work if people need to be close to the screen and write things down.

This product is good. When the lights are off it projects a large image that is very clear. When the lights are on you can still see the image but barely, this ofcourse is in an extremely well lit room and not just with some lamp shining in the same area.

Don't buy it from this vendor $799 is a rip-off, buy it directly from Dell for $399 or less. Awesome projector, I currently use it for my Xbox 360 and hook it up to my laptop for movies. It's way better then all of the other micro projectors currently on the Market. Picture quality with a VGA cable to the 360 is great, much better than with the standard video connector. Definately recommend the product but again don't get ripped off by this vender $799, you might as well buy a full sized projector.

I have had this projector for about 4 months. I bought it refurbished (which may be my mistake, hence the 2nd star, otherwise it would have been only one star). I really bought it to replace the large and bulky old home theater system that I had had for years in the bedroom (and which I ended up donating prematurely).

Pros: small, portable, bright enough to watch a movie in a dimly lit room, good for presentations in the evening

Cons: No audio output, cord is too short
THE INPUT SLOT IS PROPRIETARY (DELL)!!! It is not a regular VGA, RCA or HDMI slot. So you need the cord that comes with it, which is kind of flimsy (especially if you travel a lot with it, and I tend to take good care of my electronics). It stopped working properly and started displaying a blue or red image (monochrome) depending on the way the cord was turned and the direction the input was laying in the slot, and it shuts down prematurely (within 10 minutes of turning it on), all this only after about 3 months. Unfortunately for me, I had bought a refurb and don't have a warranty. I even bought a new cord for about $20, thinking that this may be the problem, but is is actually the slot in the projector itself that is very flimsy. Unfortunately, they do not have standard slots like HDMI, etc...

I would not buy this product again. You have been warned....