Official Vostro Owner's Lounge

mine was supposed to ship b/w 6 and 12th and it came on 6th!

 

Really? I bought this primarily to run Visual Studio as my college doesnt have a lab assigned for upper-level classes..which doesnt make ANY sense!

How easy is it to upgrade Vista Basic to Vista Business? My college provides all the computer science majors with a free full-version copy. Do you just put the disk in and enter your key and it upgrades?

 

I have a 1500 and I'm really having problems with the D drive. I will use the drag to disc function to make a number of copies 300 meg of pictures for a x-mas gift. One time it will work great and then the next time it doesn't respond and freezes up. I end task and end up have to shut the computer of with the on/off button because it lock everthing up.

Right now as I'm type this, the computer is lagging because I just had to end task on the drag to disc, this time it ended without having to shut down.

Is anyone else having problems? I might be doing something wrong?

Any thought or suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

 

I did not have any issues at all with Visual Studio 2005. Of course, I bought my V1500 with XP Pro on it. I'm upgrading the RAM to 4GB next semester for VMWare. I am expecting to be running 20-30 virtual machines on it for networking classes.

 

You do realize anything greater than 3gb of ram on XP Pro is redundant right...?

32-bit operating systems can't see more than 3gb of RAM. You'd have to upgrade to Vista 64-bit to make use of 4gb of ram...

 

I dont have my Vostro just yet, but I have had experience with that software. I just ended up deleting it and installing Nero. If you can't obtain a copy of it, maybe reinstalling it would work for you? It worked on the Inspiron 1521 I tried it on.

 

geez, everyone's just crazy about the dell vostros, especially the 1500 series. i sure hope dell keeps the prices of their vostros stable well into quater 2 of next year, since that's about when i plan to get one

 

Does anyone know when the 200GB 7200rpm hard drives will be available in USA again?

 

The 1400 can now be bought with XP and they have all the needed XP drivers up on the support site!

 

Just ordered my vostro 1500 on the 13th, projected delivery date is the 17th. Anyone have any recent experience with delays and such?