quality of dells? laptops

found a good price for a dell that has everything i need off their site

just wondering what the quality of their laptops are, life span, toughness, everything

 

My sister has a Dell Inspiron 1100 -- Celeron 2.0 GHz; 256MB RAM; 20GB Hard-Drive...She bought it around July 2002. She still has it, and it works very good. No problems.

 

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I have two of them.
The first one is a
Latitude CxJ Pentium III 650 MHz
256Mb Ram
10 GB HDD
Ati Mobility Rage Pro 8MB (or something like that)
24X DVD/CD burner
10/100 Mbps PCMCIA network card
Both trackball and trackpad work really well.
I bought this one used in 2002. Consider this. This computer is more than 5 years old, battery is pretty much dead, keyboard is hard to write with (double writes some letters or you have to really type them over and over for them to actually show up on the screen) but no keys have fallen off, LCD had to been changed (but still had warranty so no money loss), fans are noisy, and it heats up pretty good. Aside from all these things. I usually use it as my downloading machine which means I let it on for many days and despite the tremendous heat it irradiates, nothing bad happens (no catching fire, no turning off, no nothing). Every reasonable application I have installed (meaning that it doesn't need a dedicated GPU) has worked quite well (Autocad 2005, RISA, Staad Pro, Windows XP, Microsoft Office...whatever version is the latest).

Second one, I purchased it quite recently
Inspiron 9300 Pentium M 740 1.73Ghz
1 GB RAM
60GB HDD
8x DVD burner
256 MB Nvidia Geforce Go 6800
Intel 2200 wireless network

I still haven't worked this one out as much as the other one as I have only had it for almost a month alone so I would have to get back to you on how this one develops but considering what I have put the other one through, I would have to say they are well built (or maybe were), sturdy enough, and it has withstood the change of technology well....imagine that it still functions pretty much well into the 2006 with a Pentium 3 processor. That pretty much convinced me to buy another Dell (the I9300).

 

it depends on which series you are going with. If it is in the latitude series, you'll be getting a more durable notebook than the Inspirons. Latitudes are meant to be taken with you everyday, and have a better quality built.