Dell Vostro 1500

sWiZzLe · 28 Mar 2008 at 15:47

Mmmmmm just upgraded my Vostro to 4gb

Vista 64 is now amazingly fast, couldnt see much difference at first but ive just tried having loads of programs open like Outlook Business, Access, Firefox, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, 10 instances of winrar achiving stuff and theres no slowdown :eek:

Before with 2gb i could barely run Outlook and Access at the same time!
£60 very well spent

Cheeky Dell though, one of the memory slots is under the keyboard!

Bradmax57 · 28 Mar 2008 at 15:57

sWiZzLe said:
Cheeky Dell though, one of the memory slots is under the keyboard!

Quite common on notebooks

sWiZzLe · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:06

I opened the back and thought .... Nooooooooooooooo theres only 1 slot! Hang on its only 1gb :confused:

and i have 2 lol

Bradmax57 · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:09

sWiZzLe said:
I opened the back and thought .... Nooooooooooooooo theres only 1 slot! Hang on its only 1gb and i have 2 lol

, my lenovo had both underneath but several others ive had have been under keyboard too, luckily its easy enough done one the dell

thephantom114 · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:28

peetee said:
yea, you can still cancel if you want so say you would rather order online for the battery etc thats how i got my good deal, they rang me back about something(oh yea she forgot to take verification of my card number) and i said OH iv decided iv changed my mind, iv fouund another laptop etc; )

I got mine when they had the easter discount everything sale going on, will that matter if I phone up and ask to add the 9 cell?

thephantom114 · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:30

Captain Kirk said:
ARGH! I have just seen a promotion on the Dell website where you can upgrade to the 9cell battery for free on Vostro 1500 laptops. Do you think I will be able to ring up and ask for this with mine as it is still in Pre-production phase?

Where did you see this? As I can't find it

Captain Kirk · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:31

I hope this is ok, it's on the Vostro 1500 only, and Evalue code is N0415004

thephantom114 · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:37

Captain Kirk said:
I hope this is ok, it's on the Vostro 1500 only, and Evalue code is N0415004

Genuinely can't find it anywhere, and tried adding the code in the basket section, it just said invalid code. I didn't know they even did the 9 cell batterys for the Vostro.

Captain Kirk · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:42

Clcik on small business>laptops, down the left hand side is "View all promotions" under the subheading "Dell offers" it's in there

riddlermarc · 28 Mar 2008 at 16:53

Talk about uberfast delivery - I ordered my 1700 on Tuesday and it was delivered today (28th)! Lovely 17" widescreen goodness, I have it sat copying some stuff from my Thinkpad and the difference in display is very noticeable.. I might have to dump Vista though, get back to some Linux goodness

Loving the keyboard too..

thephantom114 · 28 Mar 2008 at 17:05

Captain Kirk said:
Clcik on small business>laptops, down the left hand side is "View all promotions" under the subheading "Dell offers" it's in there

Ah right I found it. It only seems to work if you start with the base system and add the extras which ends up costing a load more.

How weird

Oh and did everyone get that IR travel remote with their Vostro that I see plastered everywhere?

dC2006 · 28 Mar 2008 at 21:20

Have my vostro 1700 coming tuesday next week, cant wait. I went for the 1900x1200 display, 256mb gfx, 4 gig ram, 2.5ghz cpu option.

thephantom114 · 28 Mar 2008 at 22:16

Tuesday? I ordered my 1500 two days ago and it's not due 'till next Friday.

I'm not the patient kinda guy

dC2006 · 28 Mar 2008 at 22:21

I ordered mine two days ago, was emailed delivery date of next friday aswell. Had a automated call from dell today telling me delivery was to be for upcoming tuesday, press 1 for morning delivery or 2 for afternoon.

thephantom114 · 28 Mar 2008 at 22:52

Well that's pretty nifty. How much did it cost you in total?

dC2006 · 28 Mar 2008 at 23:56

£847 incl a dell printer.

Bossk128 · 29 Mar 2008 at 08:46

I'm sure delivery date varies with options. The mst popular Vostros will surely be boxed up waiting to go.

riddlermarc · 29 Mar 2008 at 09:08

Bossk128 said:
I'm sure delivery date varies with options. The mst popular Vostros will surely be boxed up waiting to go.

Sounds about right, mine wasn't too far off the standard build track and when placing the order it advised it was "ready to be built". I think much non-standard stuff sways the build time a bit? I can't believe they built mine and sent it all in three days, I think you are right in that they maybe have a load of pre-builds waiting to go out

csmith · 29 Mar 2008 at 09:45

IS this a good spec for the price £433 inc vat and delivery? and if not how do i get better?

Components
BASE Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5270 (1.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English edit
SUPPORT SERVICES 1Yr Basic Warranty - Next Business Day Included - No Upgrade Selected edit
LCD 15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display edit
INTEGRATED WEBCAM Matte Jet Black without Camera edit
MEMORY 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024) edit
HARD DRIVE 120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive edit
GRAPHICS CARD 256MB nVidia® GeForce® 8600M GT edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive edit
PRIMARY BATTERY Primary 9-cell Lithium-Ion Battery (85 WHr)

Bradmax57 · 29 Mar 2008 at 10:42

id say thats pretty good, only weak point being the cpu, but thats always upgradable later