My Vostro 1500 has arrived!

This is great input everyone. You guys brought up a good point about the fact that the 1500 is packaged with Vista Home and not one of the "better" versions. I still see XP being around for some time and for my purposes I think it will be good. It will most likely even operate faster which is really the main thing for me. The kicker is that so far I see people giving feedback that are sold on going with XP but I'm not hearing anyone really trying to push Vista.

Do you guys know anything about the problems some people are having with the Intel 3945 card? I'm was leaning towards that card in the beginning because I read it offers better range and overall performance.

 

P.S.
I'm not trying to get off topic. I just figured while we're waiting on people to chime in with their user reviews we could talk about the features offered in this machine. So far this has been extremely helpful. All feedback is appreciated and I'd love to hear more.

 

FYI: There is a vostro thread on Slickdeals about the fact that someone dumped a half glass of water on the keyboard to test it out, and it fried the vostro. CSR rep said he voided the warranty by doing that, and Dell has changed the wording for the vostro on dell.com to indicated that it only "guards" against spills, not that it is spill proof. Looks like in the 13,000 hours of testing, they never actually dumped liquid on the keyboard.

 

what a moron... did he drive his car into a wall to test out the airbags?

 

Wasn't trying to insult anybody. I have them, too, so I feel I have a right to call it as I see it. But, I could've used less strong language, admittedly.

 

Np mate, i guess your used to the high quality, high priced shure earbuds etc..
As most of us here are probably more along the lines of sony or apple earbuds
Depends how strongly you take to good sound! I'm 15 and i have Athena speakers, and Yamaha receiver, so as you can see i am quite a sound freak

I just Feel that spending close to $200 on earbuds! is a bit of a waste

Having said that I'd love to get my hands on some of those shures, just to see if i can really notice a difference in quality

Any way lets stick to the subject of this forum "Vostro"

 

I didn't take it off topic -- my whole point was that even with highly shielded buds with a quad-thick wire and isolation, it's still noticeable. I'm in my 40's; when I was your age, we had to walk around with actual headphones (ok, actually, we walked around with a boombox and left the headphones for midnights using our bedroom stereos, lol). Anyhoo, don't be so defensive; the point clearly wasn't to disparage Creative's headphones, but to emphasize the extent of the interference.

 

I ordered with 512mb of ram. I intend on upgrading to 4gb in January 2008.

2gb should be good for most apps even with Vista. You probably won't need more unless you are going to be running memory hog programs... like simulating networks with vmware....

 

Similar reasons here. Our system at work will not work with Vista. For some reason, you cannot get a good connection to the AS400. I think IBM is working on that, but it's not done yet. Also VMware doesn't work quite right unless you do some funky stuff with your Vista settings. Too bad, that deal on the 1520 was VERY tempting.

 

I opted to save some dough this time and got the equivalent Dell card, BUT, I recently got the 3945 on my 9400 and D630, and I've had no problems at all with them.

 

Who cares about Vistto compatibility - I want the Picssss

 

Hahah "quad thick wire!" that reminds me of those monster cable adds, that everyone knows are full of s***

But do as u will

 

I come from Germany, therefore apology for my bad English.

@ shlurpee, would it be please possible for you to place more photos from on-line to? Thanks.

 

shlurpee
could you comment on the notebook temperatures?

 

finally got xp up and running. almost had about 3 heart attacks thinking that i bricked my laptop.

this is what you have to do. go into your bios, and switch the hard drive over to ata. be sure when you do this, you are 100% you want to get ride of vista. i tried to get back into vista once more to get some files, but i got a recovery screen pop up. once the xp installer ready, make you delete 2 partitions. i tried to delete only one, and install xp on that one, but i keeped telling me i already have the max partitions allowed. after that you should be fine installing it. the only problem i have now is that i cant find the driver for my wireless

 

try to search for the chipset. and find the driver from manufacturer site.

 

So has anyone's 1700 arrived yet? I wanna see some pictures of what I have coming

 

Are there any pictures posted yet?

 

got the wireless working now. now i just need to find the sound driver, which i cant find anywhere

edit: found a driver that works. here the link

http://support.us.dell.com/support/...eid=R153908&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=205136

and heres the link for the wireless driver

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=202138

now i got everything working and its awsome. im now finally enjoying my laptop

 

man thank god i ordered mine wit xp!

 

mine is finally in boxing. For reference, I ordered on the 18th... here is my setup


1 222-9562 Vostro 1500, Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 2.0GHz, 800Mhz FSB, 4M L2 Cache $987.10
1 320-5545 15.4 inch Wide Screen SXGA+ display with TrueLife LCD for Vostro 1500 $0.00
1 311-7261 1GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 DIMM $0.00
1 320-5558 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS $0.00
1 341-4885 120G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive $0.00
1 420-7312 Genuine Windows XP Home Edition, SP2 $0.00
1 412-0998 Dell Exclusive MediaDirect Instant Play Software Application $0.00
1 430-0493 Integrated 10/100 Network Cardand Modem, for Inspiron $0.00
1 410-0944 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.08, forVostro $0.00
1 313-5527 8X DVD+/-RW with double-layer DVD+R write capability, w/o Roxio Creator $0.00
1 313-4783 Integrated High Definition Audio 2.0 $0.00
1 313-5302 Intel 4965AGN Wireless-N Mini card $0.00
1 320-5546 Integrated 2.0 mega pixel webcam 1500 $0.00
1 410-1054 No Anti-Virus/ Security Software requested $0.00
1 312-0544 56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery, for Vostro 1500 $0.00
1 412-0379 No software package $0.00
1 983-3920 Warranty Support,Initial Year $0.00
1 987-6829 No Warranty, Year 2 and 3 $0.00
1 987-6977 Dell Hardware Warranty Plus Return To Depot, Initial Year $0.00
1 983-4060 Type 7 Contract - Mail-In Service, 24x7 Technical Support, Initial Year $0.00
1 900-9987 Standard On-Site Installation Declined $0.00
1 420-7189 DellNetwork Assistant 1.7 $0.00
1 466-8887 Thank you for choosing Dell $0.00
1 430-2539 Dell Wirless 355 Bluetooth Module (2.0+EDR) $15.90
1 462-4506 Purchase is NOT intended for resell $0.00
1 412-0968 Creative Earbud EP630 $0.00
1 420-7368 Dell DataSafe 2.0 Online, 10GBfor 1 Year Free (for ABU only) $0.00
1 987-7479 VOSTRO,Datasafe 10GB,1YR(Incl w/price) $0.00
1 420-7367 PC Tune-up, 1 Year (For English OS only) $0.00
1 960-8851 1YR AUT. PC TUNE UP,VOSTRO, Included in Price $0.00
1 310-9348 Intel Centrino Core Duo Processor $0.00
1 310-8624 You have chosen a Windows XP System $0.00

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Sub-Total : $1003.00
Shipping :
Tax : $64.23

Order Total :
$1067.23

 

Mine just reached boxing too. Guess the t7300s were on backorder? I ordered on the 16th.

 

which page has the pics on them? Couldn't find it!

 

Here are some....

http://benyouhui.it168.com/thread-561922-1-1.html

 

wtf, why does he get cd's. im need them

 

My setup is almost identical, still building...

 

Are you checking your status on-line, or through the phone. On-line will simply say "in production". Phone will say, "in Production - boxing"

 

Anyone can post a 3d mark score??

Anyone checked the clock speeds of the 8600 graphical card?

Thanks.

 

Cool... asked for (and got) upgraded to overnight shipping for free.

 

checking by phone

 

Vostro 1500.. shipped today! Ordered July 18th

 

I see you returned your 1520 because of graininess. I did the exact same thing (one of the reasons). I only ordered the 128 NVDIA. I had the same card on the 1520. I can only hope the graininess is not there on the VOSTRO. Are you sure the 256 will resolve the issue, or are you hoping it will?

 

I ordered my vostro 1500 about 2 weeks ago... the ship date on it was supposed to be August 2nd, but I received a 25% off vostro coupon in the mail from Dell today. I called and tried to get them to apply it to my order to no avail, so I canceled it and re-placed the order.

When all was said and done, I got the same exact system for $1074 shipped vs. $1205 from my original order. My new shipping date is 8/14... I can wait 2 weeks to save $130

So check your email... dell are passing around 20/25/30% coupons that expire August 1st.

 

Well my order finally shipped "for real" today, and it will be delivered tomorrow. The free next day is really FedEx overnight so i'm happy! Woot!

 

jeebus...is there a production delay in the 1400 or something? why are all these people getting their 1500's shipped out before mine (i ordered the 16th)

 

i have vista business loaded on my new vostro - i recreated the partitions and i need to make it a dual boot w/vista - anyone have any ideas how i can get XP to load on this other partition?