you girls with the new Dell's

[Contance]

I was reading a bit back where some of you had ordered new Dell Laptops. Did you get them yet?? What do you think?? Which ones did you get?

C

[tuneskids]

I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 with a 17" widescreen display. I LOVE mine, only thing that I would change would be the color (I wanted pink but since I have to share with hubby, we chose blue) and would have gotten the most hard drive space I could have (hubby seems to think I shouldn't be able to fill up 160GB of space, but it's so easy to do with my scrap stuff. hehehe)

[Libby Pritchett]

I love mine! I got it in January, and I've never been happier. I was worried about not liking Windows vista, but I haven't had any trouble at all.

I just made sure to get a nice big screen, lots of RAM (cause Vista is a memory hog), dual-core processor, and I can't remember what else. All in all, mine was about $1800 after some discounts, but it was worth every penny!

Because i'm so bad at remembering what I have, here's a screen shot of my system info -

[my4boys]

I have had mine since May of 07 and love it too. All I can tell you is it is a Inspiron E1505 and I DO NOT have a pink one ( as much as I want one!!!) My hubby surprised me with this one so I guess I should not complain. I have a DVD burner and a lot of other bells & whistles too We also have a Dell desktop that is still running great after 5 years and a million RPG games and Sims crap on it...I would highly recommend Dell to anyone.

[Aggie Aviso]

I got the pink 1525 one and had it for a steal after a $300 coupon. It should arrive this week

[mika21]

Thanks for posting this Connie, I'm in the market for a new one too, so this helps out!

[Heather Roselli]

I guess I'm the odd man out, but I had nothing but trouble with my Dell laptop and the replacement they FINALLY sent me after having the same power outage problems 4 times in a row! I have an HP 17" now and love it.

[ditzyscrap]

Nah, don't think you're alone Heather! Kristin got one a while back and had so much trouble, she returned it and then bought a Mac, lol...

[ColleenSwerb]

Both my Dad and Fiancee are in computers, and wouldn't let me buy a Dell if I paid them, lol. They both hate Dell, but I have no idea why. Bad experiences I'm assuming.

My fiancee is thinking of a Sony Vaio or an HP for me, sometime soon I hope :P My HP from college lasted forever, it was a great machine.

[Teresa]

I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 (in PINK, of course!). You can read lots of reviews through the link. I LOVE mine- it has all the bells and whistles (that were worth the cost differential) and will definitely grow with my scrapping addiction for many years to come. DH builds computers as part of his job and always recommends Dells (funny there are so many different opinions from the geeks). LOL

[ColleenSwerb]

That's so funny T, lol. Both my Dad and Jordan build computer too. Who knows, geeks have their own loyalties I'm assuming, lol.

[Contance]

Originally Posted by Aggie Aviso

I got the pink 1525 one and had it for a steal after a $300 coupon. It should arrive this week

Ok, where did you find a great coupon like that???
C

[lhaslem]

here's where I got my coupon in January:
http://www.notebookreview.com/dellCoupon.asp

Looks like they are all % right now, but sometimes they are $200, $300 and even $400 off.

I got an Inspiron 1520 (had to get one with XP because of my work) and I'm loving it so far! I've also got a desktop that I got 3 years ago that hasn't had any problems.

[newfiemountiewife]

Originally Posted by Heather Roselli

I guess I'm the odd man out, but I had nothing but trouble with my Dell laptop and the replacement they FINALLY sent me after having the same power outage problems 4 times in a row! I have an HP 17" now and love it.

Oh me TOO. I thought I was the only one. Mine was a disaster, a total lemon. It is in my laptop bag, dead, after losing the hard drive for the second time, and I refuse to spend another cent on it. I lost the mother board, 4 power cords, and the 2 hard drives. I have spent almost as much fixing it as I did on the laptop itself. So I am saving slowly for a Toshiba at my computer guru's recommendation.

[gngabriel]

I've been a dell customer since 2000. My latest purchase was March last year with a dell 1405. Basically, 2GB processor, 2GB RAM, 80gb ehd (which is tiny nowadays) - basically same system aggie got recently, bluetooth, internal wireless, vista etc etc.

Aggie paid 800, I paid 2200, que horror! for this laptop that's souped up repackaged 1 year later with almost the same specs and she even got a bigger hard drive and a webcam with her.

Performance wise, Im happy. i've havent had a problem with it.

Don't break anything on it though. They have horrible customer support and the service for parts is ridiculously priced. (that's how I learned to ebay parts online and replace them myself, if i need to)