Dell Inspiron 5100

Dell Inspiron 5100: Fast unreliable beast. like Ford GT of laptops. (312 words)
by kamal - written on 30.05.08 (Useful, 33 readings)
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The advantage of buying Dell laptop is that they can go wrong quite often, and when lot of people face problems, they first resolve the issue and put the solution on the web. If you search on the web for Dell Inspiron 5100 / 5150, you get lots of posts with various issue. The main issues are overheating and shutting down with slightest shake. I bought my Inspiron 5150 from Dell outlet at 50% of original price, not realising what am I getting into. It worked like a treat for couple of years as I watched DVDs and created movies using Pinnacle Studio. I was bit disappointed with the speaker sound though. Then this heavy beast started slowing down with heavy fan ...

Nice computer, until it blew itself up. (127 words)
by rassling - written on 03.10.07 (Useful, 91 readings)
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I won't attempt here to go into the full spec of my Inspiron 5100, as the other reviewer has covered it all very well. Suffice to say mine was pretty well at the top of the range at the time. Actually, it worked like a dream for about 18 months, with no problems to speak of. Then, a month or so out of warranty, I plugged it into the mains and sparks flew (literally). The motherboard was suitably fried, and as the warranty was over the whole thing needed replacement really. I now run an Inspiron 6000 (see review elsewhere) which has been mainly good to me bar an early motherboard replacement, but I gather problems with the power supply/motherboard ...

Dell Inspiron 5100: Inspirational Inspiron or Dell Hell? (1149 words)
by English Lady - written on 30.10.05 (Very useful, 1658 readings)
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Last May, my husband decided we were best off dropping the PC's and getting ourselves laptops. We started off looking at Dell, and he chose an Inspiron 510M for just over one thousand pounds. Yes, it's expensive, but my husband is a website designer, programmer, all round computer guru and needs a damn good quality computer to work with. So, here are the specs for you, and I will try and translate what they actually mean in real speak too! *1.2 ghz Pentium M Processor (runs pretty fast.) *512 Mb ram (lots of memory means you can use several applications at once.) *20 Gb hard drive (this can store a lot of information.) *DVD/ CD ...