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Dell Inspiron 5000 R500LO

Dell Inspiron 5000 R500LO

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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Dell vs. Toshiba....when it's your money

by Bonies7 Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Apr 28 '00
Pros: Well made, reliable....and a gorgeous 15 inch screen
Cons: The Pentium III fan is noisy
Okay, true confessions time again. I've been touting Toshiba laptops for several years to my friends and neighbors. But a big reason that I was so favorable towards them was the fact that they were provided to me by the corporate purchasing department...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 1.0
 

God, what a disaster

by three60 , Mar 04 '00
Pros: Configure it any way you want
Cons: Crappy construction quality, bad design, poor ergonomics
Fellow Epinionators....I may be the first person to have a strong bias against Dell notebook machines, but let me tell you, this Inspiron 5000 really leaves alot to be desired. Initially, I thought the first machine we got was simply a lemon, but the...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

Wonderful, Light, Good Price

by producer , May 02 '00
Pros: Light, Sleek, Nice Display, You Can Customize
Cons: Desktops are cheaper
I bought my Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook two months ago, and already you can get a bigger screen, more memory and who knows what else for the same amount I paid ($2300) - but that's the way the computer cookie crumbles.

That being said - this...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
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Excellent home office unit that is also portable

by RTFETTE , Jul 15 '00
Pros: ease of setup, quality, speed, great features, replaces desktop clunker
Cons: service line wait time, curser control (same as all laptops)
As a heavy computer and internet user, I have been on the lookout for flexibility and power in my home computer. Up to now, this was in a desktop solution. With the purchase of the Dell Inspiron 5000 it solved the problem of desktop clutter, portability...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
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A Tech Person's Choice

by muy , Jun 10 '00
Pros: powerful, large screen even at 14", lighter than the 7500
Cons: pricey, sound could be better, need more HD space
Hello. I'm an MIS Coordinator and graphic designer, so my decision to buy a Dell 5000 came with a lot of research to make sure the computer could meet my needs.

I purchased a Dell computer, specifically, after researching user reviews and...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Good Design, Great Value

by Eridani , Mar 19 '00
Pros: Sleek Design, feature packed, fantastic Value
Cons: Video Driver Issues(wait for 128), cheap speakers
I received my Inspiron 5000 a little under 3 weeks ago and so far I have been reasonably impressed.

My machine is a PIII 500mhz with 64 megs of ram, 6 gig Harddrive, 8mb ATI mobile-p, 15" xga screen, 6x DVD running windows 98. My total...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

Dell is Delicious

by erimentha , Apr 22 '00
Pros: Speedy, great Dell reputation, overall great notebook performance and value.
Cons: Not rugged, bad sound, limited graphics capabilities.
When my last computer died on me, I did a little dance of joy. It was a 1997 Monorail with a 150 PI, 48 megs of RAM, and a dual-scan screen (it wasn't a notebook- it was a small scale desktop like the Gateway Astro). I've been looking forward to an...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Excellent Laptop

by rlee777 , Mar 17 '00
Pros: Great value, nice build quality, Dell warranty and support
Cons: No Win2000 support (yet)
The Inspiron 5000 is an excellent laptop. I have the 15" XGA screen with the Celeron 450 and with 32MB (I upgraded it to 160MB through www.crucial.com), the total came just under $2000 and for the price, nothing comes close to this for value.
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 5.0
 

Unleash the Beast

by limeygit , Apr 09 '00
Pros: The screen, The Power, Quality, Warranty and The Screen
Cons: Some minor design quibbles
After too long dealing with an old refurbished pentium 166 Thinkpad, that had a dingy small screen, and couldn't display more than 256 colors at full screen size I decided to treat myself.
After scouring the market, reading reviews I discounted my...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

Dell Inspiron 5000

by michaels22 , May 15 '00
Pros: Fast, attractive, efficient
Cons: Plastic, plastic, plastic
They did it. They put both a CD and floppy in the 5000. I have been waiting for this. Too many people have complained too many times about the cable and the rebooting to swap drives. Thank you, Dell.

The 15" screen is quite a surprise...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

A good laptop computer

by orko77 , Mar 17 '00
Pros: Excellent support, solidly built design
Cons: Relatively noisy hard-drive, a rattling left track-pad button
I have owned Dell I5K for about 2 weeks now and quite satisfied with it. I decided to purchase the computer due to the reputation and excellent customer support I have heard and read from countless sources. I had a little bit of trouble of ordering the...
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Don't buy the Dell Inspirion 5000

by mesayme , Jun 03 '01
Pros: It works.
Cons: Faulty parts, poor upgrade capability, horrible customer service/tech support
I deeply regret having ever purchased my Dell Inspirion 5000. Out of the box, the floppy drive did not work and the sound card was not operative. The video capabilities are far below what the phone sales person had promised and are not upgradeable....
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HORRIBLE

by wschwartz , Jun 06 '00
Pros: Good price
Cons: Bad tech support, bad design, numerous hardware conflicts
DO NOT BUY THIS MACHINE! From the day I got the computer I was having toons of problems with the sound card. It was failing diagnostics and interfering with my Xircom card somehow. I called tech support multiple times, and felt like I knew more than...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

Great Machine, Great Price!

by h20z , Mar 25 '00
Pros: Speed, DVD
Cons: speakers
I am fairly impressed by this Inspiration 5000 machine, I needed a laptop for work and other things. I have always thought of Dell as a name brand product with great quality. I have owned this machine for a little over 3 weeks now and it hasnt failed to...
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Product Rating:Product Rating: 4.0
 

Its better then u think

by hiyahguy , Apr 06 '00
Pros: Speed and Power
Cons: a little expensive
Price: $2709
Processor: Pentium 3
Speed: 500 MHz
RAM: 64 MB
Hard Disk: 6 GB
Storage: DVD

This thing is powerful. You are able to do anything with it. I suggest it over most laptops and even the new apple i-book....
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