I bought this laptop to replace my ancient desktop computer. In fact three of us at work bought Vostro 1500's but with slightly different upgrade features. The problem with reviewing Dell products is that you can pick n' mix the specification and upgrade a number of things such as graphics card, memory etc so my spec is appended to the end. The only issues I had with this laptop have been with the firmware. I bought the Vostro only a couple of weeks after Dell released it. Some of the components such as the graphics card were causing blue screens. It turned out to be a Vista compatibility problem. My colleague who also bought this laptop got so ...  Read the complete review

Well what can i say!!!!! I love this machine, unlike the other reviewer i will talk about the machine listed above ( the other guy was reviewing the vostro 1000 not the 1500 as the 1000 was the AMD version ). First lets start with the weight, this is not a light laptop but this is not a bad thing in the case of this machine, the Vostro 1500 comes with a magnisium alloy chassis, this machine is a work notebook and as such the alloy chassis is made heavier and stronger to provide durability in the workplace, also some people may have noticed that alot of laptops come with some pretty bad keyboard flex ( in other words, when 1 key is pressed lots of ...  Read the complete review

I've had my Dell Vostro 1500 for about 2 years now- I bought it through work and got a great price of £380 on it. The price included a lot of free extras, which at the time made it an amazing buy: it has bluetooth, dvd/rw, 2GB ram, a dual-core 1.5GHZ intel processor, and a GF 8400MS graphics card, making it more than enough laptop for my needs, and all loaded onto a copy of Windows Vista Business. I predominantly use my laptop for the internet and word processing (being a student) but I also use it for guitar recording with a Line6 toneport and it handles it with aplomb. I've also run Flight Simulator X on it without a problem, the graphics really are ...  Read the complete review

I had the 64 bit Turion version of this machine with 2 Gigs of RAM and Windows XP on it. The processing speed and ability to handle multiple applications simultaneously without slowing down significantly was the most impressive feature to me about this machine. I am used to having at least 10 applications open at any given time, and this is excluding multiple browser sessions (note that IE 8 beta and Google Chrome which I use most frequently use independent processes for each tab). I also like to use the stand-by option and shut-down or re-start my machine only about once in a week or so, and the stand-by (which I've had issues with, in the past with other ...  Read the complete review

I got this laptop to take to university with me. After much searching on the internet for a good compromise between specification and price, this is the one I chose. I don't regret buying this at all, as it has done me very well. I use it every day as my main computer, and it has also gone all over the world with me. However it hasn't exactly been reliable, and dell haven't exactly been helpful. The main issue is the cooling for the graphics card. Compared to the consumer inspiron version, the vostro only has one cooling pipe for the graphics card. This means that when playing some games, you get the lovely blue screen of death because the ...  Read the complete review