Dell Inspiron 1525

dont buy this mine crashes every three months and have had the hard drive replaced 3 times and the circuit board replaced. only had it back 24 hours and has crashed again

I bought this Laptop for the purpose of doing my course work. I thought to myself, yeah its cheap but it looks good and it will obviously do fine for my College work ! Well after about an hour of playing around with it the only word is ... Wow ! ! The laptop is not only cheap it is by far the best computer system I have bought ! It looks wow, it works, wow, and the features ... WOW !!! The webcam and the software that comes on the laptop for the webcam is really good ! I don't think I could have asked for much better never mind expected ! The last computer system I had, had a built in mike, as does this one and the difference is astounding ! I ...  Read the complete review

We have been using several Dell inspirons at work for the past year or so. Overall I find them to be rather good computers. The build quality seems to be stable, and they seem to be able to handle tough "field work." (We send ours out on marine survey ships throughout the world, to process sound gathered from Marine mammals.) They are generally reasonably priced, (between £4-500 pounds.) They come with a standard Microsoft operating system. (Either windows XP Or Vista.) We then have to install other software, which seems to work really well with these laptops. They appear to be compatible with most outside pieces of ...  Read the complete review

I've owned this laptop since May 2008, it was bought as an 18th birthday present to me. Overall, almost a year and a half later, it's not in too bad a shape, but there are a few main issues that I have found with it (and I have also found not to be isolated to this model or to my experiences). Looks wise I went for a coloured outercover which has held up beautifully and when wiped down looks like the day it arrived; inside however the silver has worn away from the side of the mouse pad and the speaker grill has become hard to clean leading to stains and things trapped in it. One such thing is the quality of the materials used to make this laptop. ...  Read the complete review

My girlfriend bought this laptop around 18 months ago as it was the only laptop made by a decent brand which came in Pink! Performance: The laptop seems to cope well with most things thrown at it. Although my girlfriend is far from an avid gamer, she does enjoy things like "The Sims" and it seems to cope well with these. She has lots of music stored on the hard drive and it seems to cope well playing this and doesn't suffer any slow down or freezing. I am not the biggest fan of Windows Vista but the laptop runs fine with this on. Overall, I would say performance is good. Build Quality and Reliability: This is where this laptop ...  Read the complete review