Dell Inspiron 530s

It finally happened. The time had finally arrived when our trusty seven year old Compaq died and required resurrecting via yet another reformat. Though it worked well, it was woefully our of date, and money allowed it, so we decided to splurge on a shiny new PC for me and pass the dinosaur on to my son. We decided to go with Dell, as the prices looked good, financing was easy and on extremely reasonable terms, and we had heard good things about them for years from friends and family who owned them (including hubby, who snagged a free Dell lappy during the AOL promo). We looked over the various models the Dell web site had to offer, and decided to customise this ...  Read the complete review

I splash the cash last May on this desktop from Dell and I've been impressed with the reliablity since. Don't get me wrong that's not to say nothing has gone wrong but in reality every computer has a glitch sooner or later. My problem was I was unable to turn on the computer, no power, no lights. As it turns out the power supply buggered up on me. A call to Dell with my customer details ready I was put through to there support. It's vital you know Dell's support and technical centre is based in India so you'll will be greeted with an Indian support guy. I've never had any problems with this, they are just as professional and knowledgable as the next man, but ...  Read the complete review

Bought this PC for a friend. It is a little hard to use for people who do alot of burning with CD's or DVD's because of the two DVD trays being so close together as well as have to open the door to hook up an external memory stick or camera. But on the other hand it does protect the 6 in 1 adapters from dust. Another good part is the its internal makeup of putting the power supply away from the chip set and CPU, a flaw cheaper computers just can't get away from. Most of these come standard with 2GB of memory to run Vista and this particular machine runs smooth with Vista compaired to all others. Alsofor those who don't expect to add too many periphials this is a great ...  Read the complete review

I bought 10 of these from the Dell Outlet, and sold them on to various clients - both home and business users. The specification back then (early 2008) was a Core 2 Duo CPU running at 2.2Ghz, and they came with 1GB of RAM and a 250GB Hard Disk. I immediately added an extra 1GB of RAM and it made a world of difference. I ended up keeping on for my self, for running the business from, and it's been fine. This is a slimline machine, so bear that in mind if you're a gamer and want to improve on the (adequate) onboard graphics. I've looked around for a half-decent, HALF-HEIGHT graphics card and ended up butchering a full height but quite small ...  Read the complete review

Bought this from Tesco for a cheap price to replace old machine.Nice looking ,slim and quiet.Comes with vista premium which id had some experience with on my hubbys laptop.The novelty of it soon wears out and is no better than xp!The machine is fast enough for everyday use but not for gaming which we dont do anyway!The one thing i dont like about it is the cd drive opening,its fine to open but awkward to get your finger in to close it!Id read about this before buying so cant complain!Plays dvds ok but not something we do much!The keyboard and mouse supplied with it are basic but work ok,i kept my old one though as it was better.Im not that technically minded but it has ...  Read the complete review