Designed and built exclusively for small bisuness, the durable new Dell Vostro 1510 is designed to deliver customized performance, comfortable mobility and exceptional support.
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replacement as often. This 4-Cell Lithium-Ion Additional Primary Battery from Dell helps you power up your system for business trips and vacations. With a capacity
Branded memory offered in the Memory Selector is fully compatible and supported by Dell. Memory offered now may differ in speed from the original system memory but
replacement as often. This 6-Cell Lithium-Ion Additional Primary Battery from Dell helps you power up your system for business trips and vacations. With a capacity
replacement as often. This 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Additional Primary Battery from Dell helps you power up your system for business trips and vacations. With a capacity
from Dell.With a capacity of 56 WHr this battery lets you work seamlessly when you are on the move. Lithium-Ion batteries are longer lived than conventional
(+) Can take it into Best Buy for Geek Squad. This is convenient, because Best Buy has many locations. (-) Slow, keypad breaks easily, internet issues, overpriced.
(+) Build Quality, Connection, Graphics, Keyboard, Webcam and Mic, Ease of Use, Speed, Quiet Running. (-) No graphics drivers for 64 bit operating system. No big deal. Hopefully soon they will have them
A review by Baz047 on Dell Vostro 1510 July 15th, 2008
Author's product rating:
Speed
Very fast
Look & Feel
Excellent
Comfort & Portability
Satisfactory
Robustness & Durability
Excellent
Value For Money
Excellent
Advantages:
Decent Battery life . built with care, won't fall apart any time soon .
Disadvantages:
A little hevy for some . Limited customization
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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There are many mini laptops on the market right now, such as the Asus Eee PC (which I have reviewed previously). A while ago I started looking for the best one. As stupid as it sounds, the 15"inch Dell Vostro has to be my pick of the litter. Why you might ask? Because it is a budget laptop with no signs of cheapness.
The build is sturdy enough, nothing feels like it is about to snap off, I would go as far as saying that it has been carefully and thoughtfully designed.The keyboard is also magnificient, which has hardly any flex at all.
Like all Dell products, this can be customized to have light energy use and large battery life or vica versa. So it can be as portable as you want it to be, as long as you can lift it, which I don't find too bad at all, my 5ft tall girlfriend tells me otherwise though. So please take into account on how much you can carry, as they are on average 3Kg.
The amount of customizable features is quite limited, compared to the American site anyway. The basics such as the processors and hard-drives are the same, but in America you can get larger batteries and even such things as finger-print readers. I wouldn't need most of this but I would still like the option.
Currently I have a duel-core 1.8Ghz processor, 1 Gig of RAM. An integrated video card and a 160Gb (7200rpm) Hard-drive. All this is great for me, I need decent processing power, some RAM but not much (it can be updated cheaply anyway) and a decent, fast hard-drive. So it's difficult to say, most people looking at this laptop would think It was rubbish but for me it's perfect.
Of course you get the usual Dell customer support, which is very good, as long as the person on the other end of the phone can speak English that is. I would love to learn hindi/urdu (really!) but I can't, so I want customer support that I can understand. I did buy this laptop in Britain after all I have the right to expec the same from my customer service.
My main problem with the Vostro is that it costs extra to have Xp installed over Vista. I laughed with curiosity as I read this, how can they charge more to install and (technically) inferior and CHEAPER! operating system. It's beyond me. Luckily I had a spare copy of windows though, so I soon got over this.
I don't know why Dell recieve such a bad rep. This is my first Dell and it's really good, and best of all, it was cheap. I'm beginning to think the only reason Dell is in a bad light is because so many computer illiterate people use them, and don't understand that actions have consequences. I know to install AV, and that I should download music from certian P2P programs. But some don't. And because Dell advertise so much a lot of beginner PC user's will buy them. So Dell really are the Harbinger of their own doom.
Since I bought this Dell it has been nothing but great. The few problems are with he lack of customisation (compared to America). It doesn't bother me that much though, especially since my laptop should be worth a few hundred pounds more. It's also better than any lightweight pc on the market for around the same price. It's the shrew user that buys a Dell.
Advantages: Opens and runs office/internet programs quickly and without problem Disadvantages: Not as robuts for multimedia work
Second Dell I've owned. Running with Vista.
Good processor, runs smoothly, all programs open quickly. It's an office PC - not a multimedia one. I've done a bit of DT publishing and image editing, but it'll sometimes crash if the document I'm working on is too memory heavy.
The screens nice, you can watch a film on it and get a good level of detail. The audio's ok, although the speakers have got a bit of crackle when turned right up (you'd want ... ...audio for music/films).
If you're looking for a low priced, functional laptop, then this will certainly do the job... but if you want something to do a lot of multimedia work or for gaming (I would imagine, I've not used it for anything too adventurous) then I'd spend a bit more. ...
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Designed and built exclusively for small bisuness, the durable new Dell Vostro 1510 is designed to deliver customized performance, comfortable mobility and exceptional support.
This Laptop is a good value for it's money's worth. Equipped with a Intel Duo chip going at 2.0 Ghz speed, this laptop also has the advantage of 1 Giga Ddram (expandable up to 4 Giga DDRAM), a large 17" screen, a 150 Gigabytes Samsung HDD (it is also... more