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for Dell Latitude D500

Rating Summary based on 6 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		1
  • 4 Stars
    		3
  • 3 Stars
    		1
  • 2 Stars
    		0
  • 1 Star
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  • Comfort & Portability
  • Ease of use
  • Instruction manual
  • Look & Feel
  • Manufacturer Support
  		• 4.4
  		• 4.6
  		• 2.8
  		• 4.0
  		• 3.4

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  • 20 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    querth

    4 Stars Good but Pricey 13/09/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Well styled, solidly built

    Disadvantages 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 bits’ to distract the eye (...and fall off...). Build quality is excellent, the laptop has a quality solid feel. Performance This particular model has a 1.3ghz ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    roundhay129

    1 Star Dell Latitude D500 10/01/2007
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Good build quality

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Extremely slow

    I wish I could recognise the D500 machine the other reviewers of this laptop are describing. The key problem with this product is that at times it becomes so slow as to be almost unusable, even when running bread and butter Office 2000 software. No amount of disk defragmentation can resolve the slow speed issue. When opening up the laptop or after reboot, the hard drive whirls and whirls for up to half an hour, during which the extreme lag when trying to access and operate your software is such that you just can't use it. I bought this laptop (over 36 months - way over £1,000) simply to run ... more
  • 13 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    deebeebee

    4 Stars 18 months down the line 21/09/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages I now prefer laptop to PC

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none in particular

    I have a D505 on loan. I got it with pre-installed Windows XP. Many of the features on this I have never used. But I have played with the voice recognition/dictation facilities - great fun! Nothing to say about technical aspects - I am not a computer buff, merely a computer user. My understanding of computers is very limited. A novice to state-of -the-art computing, I had no problems from day one. And I am completely self-taught (starting from my Amstrad PCW machine!) I will be very sad to lose this laptop when I have to return it. I love the touch pad, but never, ever, use the track stick. A ... more
  • 1 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    3 Stars Quick review of Dell Latitude D500 - Pentium M 1.3 GHz - 14.1\ by ka0osk 10/08/2007
    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.
  • 5 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    distilled

    4 Stars Ya better get it Skyyy Hiiiiiigh 05/05/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages ga-

    Disadvantages Disadvantages -sh

    This laptop is BOSS. Know what i mean brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, This laptop is BOSS. Know what i mean brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, This laptop is BOSS. Know what i mean brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, This laptop is BOSS. Know what i mean brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, This laptop is BOSS. Know what i mean brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, This laptop is BOSS. Know what i mean brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, This laptop is BOSS. Know what i mean brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, This laptop is BOSS. Know what i mean brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, This laptop is ... more
  • 0 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Karusai

    5 Stars Good For Beginners, Good For Anyone 05/08/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Cheap, Very Upgradable, out-perform's ALL P4's because Cache size and out-performs DUAL CORE!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not made anymore, Integrated Video makes upgrading hard and/or expensive.

    This computer is for beginners or advanced user's. If you can understand why a muscle car is better than today's "Drive-By-Wire" auto's, you would understand why a D500 is better than a Dual Core or Hyperthreading. With the 2mb Cache, she's a Diamond in the RUFF! I have a Latitude D500 that I got about a year ago. When I got it, it only had a 1.3 Pentium M and a 40 gb HDD with 256 RAM. Since then, I have installed a 1.7 2mb L2 Cache Socket 479, 400FSB Dothan which I am probably going to put in a Dothan 765 which is the same exact stat's, only a 2.1 mHz freq Dothan Processor. I have put in 1.5 ... more
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