Brilliant Notebook!! (Dell Inspiron 5000e)

Member Name: sheel33

Product:	Dell Inspiron 5000e
Date:	11/02/01 (645 review reads)
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Advantages: Big 15" TFT screen, CD-RW, 20GB, I could go on forever, just read the review!

Disadvantages: No DVD :-(

I bought a Dell Inspiron 5000e 750 LT last week and it is truly amazing! I customized the statistics online, then ordered it. I got a Pentium 3 750Mhz processor, with Speedstep Technology. (Steepstep Technology is when it runs at 600MHz when you are using a battery so it doesn't use as much power, but you can put it back to 700MHz with the click of a button)

I also got:
-A 15' XGA (1024 x 768) TFT Colour screen
-128 MB SDRAM Memory
-A 20GB IDE Hard Drive. (It was 10GB but I paid £90 to get 20GB)
-A 16MB ATI Mobility 3d Video Card (It was 8MB but I paid £20 more to get 16MB)
-A Sony CD-RW (It had a DVD but I wanted a CD Writer instead so I paid £100 more)
-Internal Floppy Drive
-Internal 56k Modem
-Microsoft Windows Millenium
-Microsoft Works Suite 2000
-1 Year European Collect and Return Service

For all of the above I paid
£1529.00 exc VAT
£1796.58 inc VAT

This machine is quite heavy for a laptop. It is also quite big, but the screen is also big. It is 15 inches, which is about the same as a 17" monitor for a PC. (On a PC they include the the whole screen-the glass and the outside when they measure it) There is only one drive for the CD Witer, which isn't really a problem as it stores the CD in its hard drive then copies it onto a blank CD when you insert it.

If you look around at oother laptops, you will find they are very expensive. I think this was a very goood buy for a laptop, but if you don't need a laptop, but you do need a new PC I suggest you buy the Fujitsu Siemens PC, which is £1100 inc. VAT and it has all the above plus a P3 1000MHz processor AND DVD!!

Overall, buy this laptop if you are going to buy a laptop. It's the best buy around-I bought some PC magazines and looked on all the websites. I found a very good Tiny deal, but decided not to buy it because I know 2 people who have had a Tiny PC for less than 6 months and they have bo
th given them problems!

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