Dell Studio 15

Last week disaster struck - the power cord on my trusty laptop died! As I use it everyday, I needed to get back online as soon as possible. I was thinking of upgrading shortly anyway, so rather than shell out for a new cord, I decided to buy a whole new unit. At work, I looked online at PC World, and decided to buy the Dell Studio 1555 laptop in Midnight Blue. I reserved it online and went to pick it up later. ---The Price--- I paid £599.95 for the laptop at PC world. I had a budget of £600, so this came in right at the top end. I believe I could have got it cheaper if I'd shopped around or ordered it online, but I wanted a laptop right away, ...  Read the complete review

I ordered a customised Dell Studio 15 about the 20th September and was at first disappointed with the scheduled delivery date of the 5th October; instead I found myself pleasantly surprised as it arrived around a week earlier, complete with altered specification and all the add-ons I selected pre-installed. This was Microsoft Office Student Edition 2007, Vodafone 60 days free mobile broadband, 15 months McAfee Anti-Virus free (as part of a deal they had on) plus other accoutrements. The convenience of having everything preinstalled is something which cannot be overstated in terms of starting out with your laptop easily and hassle free! The model and ...  Read the complete review

I was looking for a reliable laptop, with as much memory and RAM as I could afford for under £500. I use the laptop for work, so this was really important. When I came across the Dell Studio 15, I read as many reviews as I could. This one seemed to rate quite highly with other users, although there were certain points other people made which put me off slightly. However, when reading reviews on other brands of laptops, similar issues were occuring. I decided to take a risk and haven't looked back since! Extremely easy to set up in the first instance and has continued to be user friendly. The keyboard is lovely to type with and the screen is clear. I ...  Read the complete review

After purchasing this laptop about 9 months ago Im highly unhappy with it. In the last 9 months this laptop has had to go back to the manufacture two times. Firstly it was the protector around the edges of the screen which pulled away. So I sent it back and Dell fixed it and returned it to me, I started messing around with it to check that everything was working, and guess what, the web cam was broken, it was as if it wasn't there it wouldn't show up on any program. So I had to send it away again and got it back 2 weeks later. Overall it had to be sent in for repairs twice which lasted for both times around 4 weeks. Also as soon as this arrived and ...  Read the complete review

I'm writing this because we have five of these machines, brought from Dell on their no payments for one year deal. This allowed us to get the machines and then shop around to get the finance, in this case we used the Virgin credit card offer of 0% for 16 months and are slowly paying it off. We should have got the whole lot for 0% by next year......so shop around and do not get Dell's HP scheme as the interest rate is huge....ouch! So back to the machines, there are five people in our family and having had a selection of laptops, Acer and Fujitsu-Siemens, they were all creaking to a halt with all sorts of damage, wear and tear and just plain slowness so that ...  Read the complete review