Dell Latitude D500 - Pentium M 1.3 GHz - 14.1" TFT > Reviews

Advantages: Well styled, solidly built
Disadvantages: Little over priced for spec

This review is about the Dell Latitude D505, though comments about the design of the laptop will apply to any model in the D500 series. Size and Weight This is a mid range laptop, it’s light and compact with excellent battery life and is designed to carried around rather than being a high performance desktop replacement. Styling The laptop is finished all over in a attractive titanium silver, the styling is quite plain with no ‘twiddly ... Read review

Advantages: Good build quality
Disadvantages: Extremely slow

...know' computer product reviewers that Dell would never stamp their name on such a worthless product (even if it was their entry-level model) - just goes to show you can't trust in reputation alone. I can now confidently predict that I will never purchase another Dell computer again - once bitten ... ... Read review

Advantages: I now prefer laptop to PC
Disadvantages: none in particular

...of a laptop I suppose. The Dell on-line support, and the Dell telephone helpline cannot be faulted (from my experience with the failed keyboard). ... Read review

Light weight, but light durability. ABSOLUTELY HAS TO HAVE 1gb to function in a reasonable manner. It will take up to 10 minutes to boot with 512mb. Do not use Norton AV as this really makes it slow. Wifi support is useless and required considerable research just to fix connect problems and Dell support is a joke. Re-installing XP helps the speed but background tasks are real dogs on this machine. This machine SCREAMS on Linux, it just isn't a great Winblows machine.

Advantages: Easily Portable, Long Lasting Battery
Disadvantages: Low Memory, No Joystick Port

I recently Got The Dell Laptop a while ago just before my birthday, and since then, i have barely been away from it. From the word go its simple to use, Mine came with Windows XP pre programmed in, so I didn't have to worry about installing that, but everything I needed to set up, was easy to do and anybody with a basic knowledge of just a keyboard could start using this laptop. The only bad thing I can say about it is the low memory, 20GB's ... Read review