Just got my Vostro 1500

Well, I ordered my Vostro last Wednesday and just got it, a day before the expected delivery date.

Too bad I can't open it yet . My boyfriend is still at work and I'm not opening the box until I get over to his house so we can do it together. He helped me tons with purchasing this laptop and it should be a shared experience . I did open the box with the free carry case and I quite like it. Hopefully pics and thoughts coming this week.

 

Congratulations!

It's not fair you got yours so early. I orderd the 22nd and its still in preproductions Europe sucks

 

Ordered mine on July 10th and it's still in in boxing... sigh..

Congrats tho!

 

Thanks, guys . Move to Australia for a week, get it, and then move back.

Ok some initial observations.

- It doesn't appeal to the eye as much as the HP Pavilion I bought and refunded before.
- It isn't as huge as I expected, not absolutely massive.
- The 9 cell battery does stick out, but not enough for me to care.
- The keyboard is a pure pleasure to use, I'm also absolutely in love with the track pad.
- The battery does NOT wobble on mine
- The latch to open the monitor is plastic and seems a bit cheap, but nothing to fuss over.
- I love the blue backlight on the media buttons at the front.
- Very nice, relatively fast initial start-up, way faster than the previous HP, which took 20 minutes to set up the first time.
- The lid does attract fingerprints easily.

- I read that the NVidia GeForce 8600M GT has 256mb dedicated memory and can go up to 512mb in total...I don't know if I misunderstood this, but mine has 1gb total graphics memory.

- Played Doom 3 on highest possible settings, no clearly visible lag. When first loading up instances, there's a TINY bit. My boyfriend and I weren't sure if it was his crappy mouse or if it was lag - turned out to be barely perceptible lag, not worth fussing over. He thinks it's cause together Vista and the graphics card only leave me about 700mb of ram out of 2gb.

Gotta go, more to come later.

 

My T60 has plastic latches so it's no big deal to me. I'm very impressed with the Vostro so far.

 

I am returning my vostro. BTW dell has awful grainy/blurry lcd screens. After seeing a sony vaio I can't see this screen. It looks dull and the colors are not evenly saturated.

 

How come you're returning it? Is it just the screen or did you have any other problems with it?

 

http://forums.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=149014

He had a couple of things he didn't like that he mentions in this thread.

 

^^ Darkday answered ur qs. The vostro looks pretty huge. It's thicker and heavier than my old inspiron 2650. But performance is really good.The touchpad is much more comfortable than the new hp dv 6500t and sony vaio FZ.

I thought of getting a vostro again, but I am scared that I will get a grainy lcd again.

 

which screen did you get coolguy?? i just saw my freinds 1520 with glossy finish and wxga+ and its VERY NICE.. my wife has a top shelf tosiba and this blew that screen away imo.. and hers is very nice

 

see my sig lol, wxga with true life.

 

hmm maybe you got a bad one?? his looked very nice not sure if there is a difference between the 1500 and 1520 though.. i didnt think there was

 

IMO sony vaio has the best display. It's sharp and has much better color saturation. Dell's wxga is kinda blurry/not sharp to me.

 

yea no doubt Xbrite has the best screens. Only problem is they always have low resolutions.

 

i agree sony has a VERY nice display yes nicer than the 1520 but take the prices of sony's into account and imo i would stay with the dell personally... sony wants a small fortune for those things

does the dell matte and truelife have different resolutions??

 

yeah. I think they have same resolutions. you can see in the customization page.

 

What I liked in the vostro was there are no trialware/junkwares. So vista loaded up pretty fast.

Finally one laptop with no trial software!

 

i actually unchecked all the software ALL OF IT.. and in my order its all back in there again.. no worried a clean fresh install when i get it will take care of that lol

 

Yeah that's one of the things I like about this laptop. It's like you built it yourself so it's going to be much zippier.

 

I noticed that when I close the lid, the right side of it (from the front) goes up and down easily. I press it shut and it just pops back up about 3mm or so. The left side doesn't do that. It's not really a problem, but it kind of makes me stop and go "oh...ok...so it's NOT perfect :S"

 

Played Quake 4 on highest settings, a bit of lag in a few places, but not continuous. Pretty happy with game performance overall, but the Vostro (which I named Christopher) would be more 'at ease' playing this on High rather than Ultimate, I think.