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Dell Vostro 1500, Intel Core 2 Duo T5470 (2x1.6GHz), 2GB RAM, 80

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The new Dell Vostro 1500 is a new dell laptop design. Dell has done good in designing the Vostro. The looks of the Vostro is amazing. It has a stylish look, yet is very durable. The 15.4-inch LCD is wide enough for anyone's viewing pleasure and the screen's glossy feature makes it look like your viewing a glass screen. The dual-core 1.6GhZ (upgradable to 2.4Ghz dual-core) processors are powerful enough for most applications. The 2GB RAM (upgradable to 4GB) can do more then enough for a user. It comes with a DVD burner to burn all your DVDs. The video card offer is good enough to handle the new Vista features. The 80GB SATA HDD (upgradable to 250GB SATA)offers plenty of space and the speed of the SATA is extremely fast. This new Dell is worth every penny.

Overall: Recommended Buy

Review by: Reviewedia.com

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 bought Dell Vostro about 18 months ago. Exactly 12 months and 2 days battery died. Warranty is not covered if it more than 12 months. I had to buy a new battery. A month after that Adapter stopped charging the battery. I had to buy a new adapter since it stopped working in 14th month. Couple of days back I opened the laptop and it broke at the hinges fell flat.

I have other laptops from HP and Acer they worke for me for years. Dell hardly lasted 18 months with basic use.I will never buy Dell again.

The Dell Vostro 1500 comes in a few configurations. I have the setup with 2 gig of RAM and a duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00 GHz. I'm running Windows Vista on it, which I love.

My previous laptop was a Sony Vaio which had an awesome screen display but was as heavy as a full set of weights. OK, I exaggerate - slightly. It was massively heavy, and loud, and the keyboard had issues. I finally gave that to a college student to use as a small desktop machine and upgraded myself to this Dell Vostro 1500.

I have been using my Dell Vostro for just over a year now. I am VERY pleased with it. It is light, quiet, the screen display is great, and it has been incredibly reliable. I pound on my laptop for hours every day, doing a ton of typing. I run websites from my home. Any time I travel my laptop goes with me and I am on it several hours a day from my remote location. The Dell has never caused me any issues at all.

The screen display is great. I do a fair amount of graphics work, including judging photo entries for a literary magazine. The Dell's screen lets me accurately view colors and see images with sharp clarity.

I do video game testing and have tested several games out on this laptop - everything works quite fine. I haven't run into any issues.

The touch mousepad area works quite fine. I use it constantly during the day and while I do get the occasional "jump" it is no different than any other laptop I've used in that regard.

Really, there is only one minor issue I've ever had with this laptop. If I am wearing shorts and have the laptop sitting on the bare skin of my legs, every once in a while I will get a sharp pain in my leg, as if it was zapped by something. I have to believe that there's some sort of metal or something that creates an electrical circuit and zaps me. It's not an every fifteen minute thing - more like a once every two or three days thing. Still, it's annoying enough that I have to find a throw to put between my legs and the laptop to keep it from happening. So I would warn people not to use the laptop on bare skin unless they enjoy that type of sensation.

Still, an awesome laptop and one that has really shown its worth over the past year. Highly recommended!

My 2-month old Dell Vostro laptop has been a problem since day one. It would not play DVDs or load DVD-based software. When I called tech support, their solution was to load a different DVD player, which did not work, either. After spending an additional 4 hours on the phone with tech support, they decided that I needed to reload the operating system. Somehow, it became my responsibility. They said it would take 2 - 3 hours on the phone with them for me to do that. I'm not that computer savvy, so I took it to a Dell authorized repair shop. They can get the laptop to work with Vista, but I paid $99 extra for the XP "downgrade". I don't want Vista. The repair shop could never get it to work correctly with XP. They called Dell, and Dell told them that it was a software issue and that they would not honor the warranty, or take the computer back for repair. So now, I have a laptop that doesn't function and a warranty that is basically worthless. Don't buy a Dell - you'll be sorry.

I have had this machine for more than a year and it's still working great-- it is a little heavy

So far this laptop is work well, the only thing that I miss is for webcam since I will use it for skypee as well.

I see a few people here blaming the PC for faults of the operating system, not fair! My company is a 100% Dell shop and I can tell you this, their stuff works, works well and keeps working! We have several Vostro 1500s, more INSPIRONS and a bunch of Latitude Laptops and they all excell with Windows XP and Windows 7. I won't mention Vista... <G> These laptops are used quite heavily and with no problems 3 years running. I own one myself and love it (1500). Please think before you pan a product you don't even understand, Dell is quality, period. It is the owner's responsibility to keep the OS upgraded and up to date. You can't just buy a laptop and expect it to work perfectly unless you maintain it.

I've got this laptop from dell's website 3 years ago when it and core 2 were first released. The quality of this laptop is very good. I also added the following features to it: firewire, webcam, bluetooth, 120GB HD and 9-cell-battery which still has a capacity of 3:50 hours when running under high performance settings.

There's nothing I can say about specifications other than that I'm using Windows 7 on it now which is a bit lighter than Vista Business that came installed on it. The Media button feature is nice but I rarely use it, specially that unlike Vista, Windows 7 business has Media center built into it.

This laptop is heavy and it gets really hot to the level that you can't put it on your lap. So if you are looking for a mobile laptop, you need to look somewhere esle.

I've had my Vostro 1500 for about 9 months now, and it's worked perfectly. I bought it with a fast Intel Penryn Processor, 3GB of RAM, nVidia 8600M GT video card, and Windows Vista. The Vostro 1500 is built like a tank, and pretty heavy. That might be a negative to some, but I like to know it can handle the everyday use I put it through. This is my 5th Dell notebook, and I've never had a major problem with any of them. The 1500 has since been replaced by the 1510. IMO, it is not nearly as well built as the 1500. You can still find the 1500 around, and IMO it is still a great notebook that's more than fast enough for most of today's uses, except heavy gaming.