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Vostro Dell Laptop, Poor Value for Money

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2 Oct 18th, 2009  (Oct 19th, 2009)

2 Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful

Advantages:
Portable, good graphics and sound

Disadvantages:
overheating, bad quality, expensive

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greyhoundjoe

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I Like to write, and this is just perfect for me

Member since:18.10.2009

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I bought a Vostro Dell Laptop, not that long ago, to do all my studies on. I soon found out that the memory was not what it was all cracked up to be. It lagged extremly badley and wouldn't stream videos. After switching on and loading my stuff onto it, I tried to use the bluetooth settings which Dell claimed to be on there and you could use straight away. Dissapointing. I found out that you have to buy, or download it as an extra and at a price. This was very dis-heartening. I just got on with it as I just didn't have the time to change the laptop. Months later...
The air vents supposedly to keep the laptop from over heating are placed on the bottom of the laptop. So when you place it on anything, it over heats and turns it's self off. This was making me more frustrated. Too add to everything, the battery pack over heats to a outragous level, and canno't be plugged into the laptop for more than 2 hours, or even that. I wouldn't reccomend this laptop to anybody who either works from home, or studies alot, and uses their laptop more than 2 hours at one time.  

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TheHairyGodmother 21.10.2009 14:10

Sorry but much more information is required to achieve higher ratings. If you add anything to this review in terms of additional detail and opinion, please do not hesitate to drop a quick message in my guestbook and I will come back and re-rate :)

Autarkis 18.10.2009 17:40

Oh what a shame it was such a bad buy for you. Good honest review. To acieve higher rates you need to expand on what you have written and I would suggest proof reading your review as there are quite a lot of spelling errors. To increase the amount of rates and to get a better idea of what is expected I would suggest you read and rate other peoples reviews this will alos increase your community points and get you noticed about the site also.

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