Is The Dell D830 any Good?

Hi, I was looking into buying a dell d830 With 2.5GHZ Core 2 Duo, 4GB's and Windows 7 with Microsoft Office 7 and CS3, Is that any Good?


Thanks'! Tyler

 

Much much? It is a good notebook for sure, but as old as the D830 would be it had better be cheap.

 

200-400 is good price

 

Well I'm not buying it, I'm helping out some one i know and he going to Give it to me and A docking base, He said he could put Windows 7 ,Vista, Or XP and he can PUT CS3,Auto cad,And Microsoft Office 07 do... does The 2.5 Model come with it's own GPU? like the nivdia? so what software work's the best on it?
I'm 16 in School aswell so i want to do some lite gaming,and my School work I want to be a IT guy When I get older so let me know what soft would be good to install and hardware Upgrades aswell

Thanks so much Tyler

 

I used one briefly the other day, and the touchpad was insanely bad. I would let my finger up and the pointer would continue to 'glide' along the screen for a ways, like I hit it with a pool cue. I didn't mess with any of the settings though, so it may be fixable.

 

^^ This is what happens with my D620, but after I use the track point.

I looked into the D820/D830 and found them to be very nice, the IT dudes at my school used them, until they upgraded.

 

So has it been like that since you got it? or is it just going bad?

 

So what did the IT dude's at your school think of them? were they long lasting?
It look's nice for what i will be doing

Thanks TylerTheGeek

 

D830 is a great machine. solidly built, and reliable. Spares are cheap and easy to find on ebay as well, so if anything goes wrong you can easily fix it yourself, especially since dell has their service manuals available online, which basically gives you step by step instructions on how to disassemble or replace any component.

the specs you listed are decent as well. Gaming on it wont be great though, its graphics card isnt really that powerful

 

ok, great! What are the Spec's on the wireless card that comes stock?
so you Don't think some Sim's 3 wouldn't do well? And that's what i like about this laptop part's are easy to come by, and Manuals too Install them as you said And would you upgrade the ram to 8GB's or 6GB's?